Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1884 — Feared Another Attack of Malaria. [ARTICLE]

Feared Another Attack of Malaria.

A long-striped snake crawled into a basement Saloon and was in the middle of the room before any one saw it. The inmates stood aghast and speechless for several seconds, when one of them, pointing his finger at the object, managed to articulate: “Do any of the rest of you see that?” They responded in a chorus: “Yes, we all do.” “It’s a great relief to me to know it,” said the first, "for I thought I was going to have another attack of malaria,” “Me, too,” responded the chorus, and then they fell on the snake with billiard cues and killed it. —Yankton Press.