Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1888 — A Rood, Healthy Snake Story. [ARTICLE]

A Rood, Healthy Snake Story.

In *orth Carolina there is a reptile known as the joint snake. When attacked it flies to pieces, each piece taking care of itself. A darkey at ticked one of them one day, and tr his Utter amazement it broke all up. each section jumping off in a different di Section. In the course of an hour he returned that way and was utterly amazed again to see it ail together except the tail pieo*. After waiting a tew minutes he saw the tail coming up to join the body, taking sharp, quick little jerks. It came nearer and nearer until within a few inches of the threequarter snake, when it gave a sudden jump and hitched on in its proper place with a fuss resembling the popping of a cap. The darkey knocked it to pieces several times, and each time it came together again. He carried his amusement too far, however, in throwing’the tail part of the snake across the creek, Just to see, he said, “how long it would take it to catehup,” but it never eanght up. The snake, with its three joints, was carried to the house, where a new tail is beginning io grow to replace the lest one. A gentleman who knows much about this singular species says a head will grow on the detached trunk, and these wijl fee two snakes instead oi tne. —Charleston Mews and Cowrie*.

And now comes a chemist and ex* plodes the theory that unbolted flour is tike most nutritious, by stating that experiments show that it is harder to dirit. The most sensible plan to follow to eat what experience has proved agrees with you.