Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1894 — A LIVE SNAKE IN IT. [ARTICLE]

A LIVE SNAKE IN IT.

Content* of a Queer Parcel Left la an *L" Car In New York. A train on the city hall branch of the Third Avenue Elevated Railroad had just drawn out of the Chatham square station when the guard of the second car from the end rushed back to the rear car and shouted to his confrere, who was juggling with the red lamp on the rear of the train, says the New York Sun. “Seen a parcel?" was what he said as he waved a telegram which had been handed to him at Chatham square. There were only half a dozen passengers in the rear car, and a hasty look over the seats brought to light a parcel done up in a newspaper and tied up with twine. “This must be it,” said guard number two, as he held it up. What he said an instant later wouldn’t look well in print, and the parcel fell to the floor and seemed very much alive. The shock tore the pacer, and.after a vigorous rustling the ugly head of a snake was thrust through the aperture. His snakeship wriggled into full view as the engine pulled up at the city hall It took half a dozen trainmen several minutes to induce the reptile to enter an iron bucket, in which he was finally secured by tying a piece of gunnysack over the top.