Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1894 — The Terrible Beglia Monster. [ARTICLE]

The Terrible Beglia Monster.

They say that there is a beneficial use for every created thing, but I would like to discover some useful purpose that the beglia monster serves, says a traveler. I never saw but two or three of them, but they did not create any desire upon my part to see any more. They do not hai e to bite or sting, but can kill by simply blowing their poisonous breath upon a victim, and in this way they kill anything that comes within the reach of the effects of their poisonous breath. An Indian in Arizona will run for miles if he sees one of these reptiles, and hardly considers himself safe until in his own wigwam. They are found in but the one place, I believe, and why this locality should have been selected to produce such a monstrosity I can not imagine. Those I have teen have only been a very few inches in length, but I would rather take my chances with a boa-constrictor or even a python twenty feet long.