Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1896 — Poisonous Serpents. [ARTICLE]

Poisonous Serpents.

A great many people fall into the error of considering that all or nearly aH of the different species of snakes are poisonous. The very latest estimate made by the naturalists is that there are 657 varieties of them on the globe Of that number 490, or over two-thlrda of the whole lot, are as harmless as rabbit*