Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1895 — A GIANT SLOTH. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A GIANT SLOTH.

An Extinct Creature that Once Flourished in South America. The Megatherium Americanum In the name scientists have applied to a gigantic mammal that once flourished In South America. On the flat alluvial

plains south of Buenos. Ayres, Argentina, the remains of this monster have been found and from them casts of the strange creature have been made. The Megatherium was allied to the sloths and ant eaters, and perhaps to the armadillos. Its bones were more massive than those of the elephant and It was endowed with wonderful strength. Instead of climbing trees for Its food as modern sloths do it sat on Its huge haunches and tall as on a tripod and grasped a tree In Its powerful arms, breaking the trunk. It then devoured the succulent vegetation, after which It repeated its work until Its appetite was appeased. The Illustration represents n cast of the skeleton.

rnent and cease worrying over the Inevitable. Tho truly happy are the hap-py-go-lucky, who take everything as It homes and make tho best of It If It rains all that 1s left to do Is to put up our umbrella, If we are so fortunate as to have one, and trudge along. Wot feet and bedraggled sklrtß won’t kill one any more than poverty and drudgery will, If there is something within us too sunshiny for poverty to cloud and too noblo for drudgery to debase. The person who spends his life scolding because things don't go to suit him U like t|ie fly on the king's chariot wheol. Things may not be plannod exactly for the comfort of the fly, but his protest will never stop the procession. Tho best tactics for flies and grumblors to pursus Ul t° bike what comes along and be glad ft 1b no worse.—Chicago TlmesHerald.

AN EXTINCT MONSTER.