Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 231, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1911 — “BIG ANNIE" IS A MOTHER [ARTICLE]

“BIG ANNIE" IS A MOTHER

Largest Bnakp In the Zoo Gives Birth to Fifty-Seven Offspring and All , but Nina Are Living. New York.—Perhaps It was because there were only a few visitors at the zoo the other afternoon and only a tew discreet attendants in the reptile house. Or maybe that had nothing to do with It Anyway, at about three o’clock there was a portentous thrashing snd writhing In the cage Big Annie, the prise 19-foot anaconda, shares with Rex, a python. Assistant Curator Dltmara heard the noise and looked In. Then he ran out and gathered up 14 keepers. ”1 want yop to come with me." be told them. "Big Annie Is—or rather she will—Never mind, come on quick snd get her out of the cage.” It took only a few minutes to untangle Big Annie's 19 fen*—length—snd get her In another cage. Ami then, before the legendary Jack ftobtesoa could earn mention, there were 47 v new little anacondas st the too. Dr. W. Reed Blair, who was hurried over, said he'd be gush dinged, or something like that, if he’d ever seen the like before. Nine of the ST didn't seem to appreciate the breathing world and left It The others perked right up. end now they sre crawling sU over each other as lively as flame. Blair said they wore "doing fine." R. H. Mole, a newspaper editor tn Port of Spain, Trinidad, whmpeot Annie to the so* got on the cable almoat al thfi moment of Atinit's cood sent wort Umtjm had

should he send him along. Mr. Dttmars cabled “Sure." But tit things keep on the curator fears the soo may have more anacondas than it really needs. • 4 v! ... , **iwßayk> •„• *. Old-Time Consumption Cure. London.—The publication of the final report'of the royal commission on tuberculosis recalls the elaborate "cure” for consumption in tike past. There is the French “cine," for instance. which Sterne survived. Sterne was taken ill in Paris and the best medical advice was sought. The verdict was consumption. And the prescription proved worse than the maia<tjr. First of alt a cockerel had to be procuqpd to be flayed al|ve and pounded in a mortar. This executed, the result was boiled together with poppy seeds, and to the broth thus spoiled s crawfish was added. Moreover. It was absolutely necessary that it should be a male crawfish, otherwise the doctor would not guarantee the "cure." And Sterne took his gruel like an fCngWahman and still lived on!