The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-01
BOYS WHO LIVED
BEFORE THE ARK
BIG COLLECTION OF FOSSIL AMI
MAILS NOW IN CHICAGO.
Dakotas Provide Many Specimens for
the Field Museum Titanothe
and the Three-Toed Horse Are In
cluded in the Collection
Chicago Post.

Do you remember that hard winter
of the tertiary age; let me see, now
a million and a half years ago9'i
whats that9 Who spoken asked
the curator of the Field Columbia mu-
scum, looking up from Q fresh matrix:
voice, "but I was talking Of the tita-
notheriun.'
ooh, you re the elotherium, aren t
your said the curator, drilling an
other hole into fossil bone.O
.'' Old Titanotherium and ] didn t get
on very well together in those days
said the elotherium. 'There was some
the real autocrat-the king of beasts.''
Find Curator Is Wrong. Tx
81 remember7v asked the curator,
gasping. '1Why, the lion was the king
Of beasts-at least he is today.
"You re wrong there said the
elotherium. but lions weren It much in
those days. Those were the good old
tertiary days. We might have had our
differences, the titanotherium and l.;
we might have gone for each other, you
know; but a million years smoothes
over those difficulties
Yes-I should think it would as.
sented the curator.
You see,' continued the elothe-
rum, growing confidential, t1I was dis
appointed then. [ hadn't made sue
cess as a rhinoceros, and WASH It quite
cut out for modern hippopotamus. I
had to do the best I could. My par
ents wanted me to be more like cow.
/ was compromise. My horns grew
side by side.
But as the cenozoic age revolved
as micocene succeeded pliocene, as we
approached the mesozoic age, 1 didn t
| care SO much about the styles. And
finally I crawled into a river bed to
die. 1 am the ancestor Of your rhino.
ceros, you know
Makes Titanotherium Grin.
( A hollow laugh Jared on this inter
.esting discourse. L came from the
gaunt titanotherium in the next room
That was a great joke we had or
Noah,' came in sepulchral tones. "We
were all dead, you know, when Noaf
came and built his ark, and when he
came to look for us with invitations
for the yachting party, we were no
where to be found. Some Of our ole
friends haven't a relative on earth
I'm proud Of the rhinoceros: He
done well,' croaked the elotherium
Then dusk came creeping on and tn
talk ceased. rs la's'gs &c. 2,'..
A spectral menagerie Of uncoutl
beasts is being installed in the museum
The caution, do not feed or ammo.
the animals will be unnecessary, a
1 all the specimens long ago have passe,
into the land where milk and hone,
is regarded as the staple diet. Whei
the collection finally is mounted, som
time this winter, the aggregation 0
huge iyory.co!ored bones that will con
front the visitor will be impressive.
The effect on the chance tourist vii
be that Of the last awakening afte
having tried to. digest sfruitcake an
{ the history of Noah g ark. Beasts tina
,antedate the ark by thousands of year
will be on exhibition. LAUNDERING man
mails will confront. the huge .carnivorae
old grudges buried IN a. past of count
less centuries The fossil state ha
made chums Of them all. IL Il =
IS Some Now Are Lonesome. -,
Some Of the old, creatures must b
lonesome now. Their species thousand
of years ago became extinct. Th
d three-toed horse, the prehistoric waite
deer, the ancestors Of the rabbit, do
: and wolf, are soon to be mounted.
The collection, one of the finest in th
: world, is the result Of the summer e.
cursion party of biologists to: the ba
> lands. Of the Dakotas.s The expedite
, was IN charge or E.51S. RIggS or IN
3 museum staff j. B. Abbott. also of tt
Field museum, and WE. Barnett (
9 Cornell university were among the rel
hunters. The party returned in Oct
: Der, leaving the fossils to be forwarde
: Nearly one hundred. skeletons hay
: reached Chicago and are being prepare
Q now for exhibition. Many complet
eral rare skulls pieeed together. II
a fossils, which are delicate and Britt
: arrive in plaster Of paris casts. The
= matrices must be drilled off before tt
joints can be cemented together. Th
n work will require several weeks. :