The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-13
100000 YEARS OLD.
Body of a Mammoth Lately Found 1T
 Liberia.

New York World.
 The harvest of mammoths which the last year has produced iss scientists say, something exceptional.
 The two which have deservedly at- trscted thA most attention are the one hundr ed-thousand-year-old monster just Northeastern Siberia and the dinosaur which is now the pride of the Peabody Museum at Yale.
 But whereas Yales dinosaur is but dlsmembered skeleton, the Russian mon ster has been preserved in state of singular intactness. Not only Is its skin entire, but it's eyes and internal organs were likewise preserved by the bed or ice, so that the Imperial Academy of Sciences at St. Petersburg will shortly be able to exhibit in perfect state the rest remarkable existing relic Of pre- historic times.
 for some months past excited most lively interest in Russia. The first clue to it was given by Cossack named JAwiowskl It was imbedded in gla- cier near the Beresowka River, miles away from the nearest settlement In summer the upper portion Of the great mass of ice. which was sunk into pocket-like cavity, would melt. The low temperatures. Here the mammoth has lain. The news was conveyed to the Governor of Yakutsk. who informed the Imperial Academy of Sciences.
 An eXDeQluOu IO TeCONcT lLlc LldllilOth was organized on the spot. Dr. Otto Herz, curator of the imperial museum, was appointed leader.
 The journey was one of extraordinary hardships. Salt fish, mares meat and stewed tree bark constituted the food of the scientists. Several of them died.
 Int hardier ones, including Dr. Herz himself. reached their destination and began immediately the excavation in which they have been so successful.
 As a first move the skin was removed from the animal This was treated with arsenic then sewed up In new coWhide. preserves the contents. The next step was to dismember the gigantic crea- ture, preserving each separate part so that it may be set up in the museum ex- actly as 1t appeared whea tramping heavily over the wilds of Russia untold centuries ago.
 It has not been decided yet just how Dr. Herz will return with his prize. The travel, especially with such burden, practically impossible. He may plan to board a steamship from small port on Behring Sea next summer. or he may make sledge trips to Irkutsk in the Wln- ter of 1902-03.
 What is this mammoth that Russian scientists are losing their lives in the attempt to preserveF ., -,-
 The mammoth was a gigantic species of elephant and is believed to have been referred to in the Old Testament In the old stone age the mammoth was as common as the horse Is today The creature had long, thick, reddish hair. and teeth and stomach so remarkable that he was able to masticate and digest the trunk of trees. The mammoth stomach has been found full of young fir trees. His teeth were built in layers and renewed themselves repeatedly.
 Some of thes interesting animals had four tusks. two running up and two down. Some of these horns were twelve . I,zs cd is0h h Q to digging up and pulling down trees.
 The very size of these curious crea- lures often proved fatal to them. Primi- tive men found ways and weapons to simply by force of their own bulk the mammoths would become mred in a soft spot of earth or imprisoned in a glacier, as this one did.
 There is no doubt that scientists from | all over the world will flock to St. Pe- | tersburg as soon as Dr. Herzs precious | trophy arrives there to see the only per- feet specimen of mammoth existing any where in the world.
 | Meanwhile the attention of American scientists Is chiefly taken up with tho remarkable Yale specimen, which is the | largest known.
 This dinosaur belonged to the Juras- | SIC period and w2s found in Wyoming l by the late Prof Marsh. Prof c. E. Beecher, who has charge of the mount | ing of the skeleton says that the va | creature. which alive must have been seventeen feet tall and slxty-five feet long, figures almost inconceivabIe to- day. Standing on its hind legs. the pro- lessor said, 1t could have looked over the top of the Peabody Museum, which is eighty feet high.
 But even with the skeleton at hand, 1t is so far from being an easy matter | to set 1t up that the cost of the under taking is figured at $lO.OOO. For the di- rectors of the museum are contentinR | themselves with mounting the hind legs l l.rfS nnlN n mo whole animal were mounted, a room | seventy-fve feet long and at least sev- | enteen feet high would be necessary to exhibit it in. Such a room is not, of