Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-05

drew you sketch"-and the count
did. The crocodilephant must be an
interesting beast.
Also he has long trunk. Well. I
get on this crocodilephant. though he
weighs $1,000 pounds. and my weight
sinks him under the water except for
the end of his trunk. That sticks up
like a periscope and let's him breathe.
There am l way down under the water.
looking at the marvellous fishes. How
do / breathe? All. when | was in
Brazil have found a root of a tropical
tree that is hollow. | put one end
i'll my mouth, put clothespin on my
nose, fasten the other end to float
and there YOU are. ! wear spurs, so
1 can steer him.
THE pelligiraffe-yes. head like a
pelican. body like a giraffe-was an
other animal we found. l have pre-
sented one to the Chicago Geological
Gardens. and 1 have offered one to my
friend Mayor William Hale Thompson,
of Chicago. We took those animals to
Washington on fiat cars and they are
alive there now and on exhibition in
charge of DR.. Daley. Oh, we keep
them in two or three big barns which
we have had steam heated.
IT believe those animals are real
prehistoric monsters. You see, we
found them on those high mountains
of Tibet, where they had gone to es-
cape that big biblical food, what do
YOU call it? All. yes, the Deluge-and
Noah missed them.
Let me tell you what those croco-
elephants have done. When we got
near T.hassa, the capital of Tibet. the
grand lama sent out 200 soldiers to
meet us but they meant to annihilate
us-I saw it on their faces. Well,
what do | do? My wonderful ingenuity
found way, and DR.. Daley and |
mounted those crocodilephants and
rode at the soldiers. We dispersed
them all and went to Lhassa. Thus I,
single handed. defeated those soldiers.
Robs Insects of Secret
well, now we come to how I per-
fected anabiosa and contrabiosa, which
will make rich every man who has
just a little money. When I got to
Lh3ssa I got very intimate with the
priSate secretary of the grand lama,
who was a good fellow.
We have here a plant he said,
that the insects drink from and when
they drink from it they become per-
fectly rigid. One can see daddy long
legs stiffened out 10 make a bridge for
other insects just by eating from the
plant
Right away l thought of suspended
animation. | needed Just one more
thing for my serum that | had got
sity of Moscow. l got some of the
juice of that plant and it was just
what | wanted. Behold, | have per-
fected anabiosa.
We'll now. what do l do with this
anabiosa? | organize the Seymore
Cold Storage Hotel Company and I
make everybody rich. In this hotel
we apply the anabiosa treatment. Sup
pose a man has only $1,000. That
won't go very far in these days and
he wants more. Well, he deposits that
$1,000 in a bank and gets the bank
book. Then he comes to the Cold
Storage Hotel. We give him one lit
tie injection of anabiosa and he goes
into. a state of suspended animation
he is not dead he is just in a trance.
Now he has said when he wants
to wake up. Suppose he wishes to re-
main in the trance for a hundred
years. So" Again the Counts
pencil was busy; he wrote $1,000 at
4 per cent. for 100 years make S52.-
46S.53"-''see how his $1,000 has
worked while he slept. He has quite
a sum. He goes to the bank and
Hot Air Baths
Now. here is the treatment" the
Count wrote again-"deposit, iniec-
ton, liquid air bath, cold storage; 100
years passes After the injection
we give the liquid air bath to preserve
him, then we put him in one of the
big chest of drawers, labeled with his
name. An automatic clock is set to
open the drawer at the end of 100
years, ten years, whatever time he
chooses. The clock rings. the drawer
opens, the attendant says, by George,
that fellows time is up!' and he is
given an injection of contra 5iosa and
a hot air bath and"-the Count clap
ped his hands-"he is alive again!"
one of his very great grandfathers.
the Count said. was none other than
Baron Munchausen. He said so right
out and signed his photograph Baron
Munchausen, Jr."