Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1915 — FEEDING A PYTHON BY MACHINERY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FEEDING A PYTHON BY MACHINERY

Romeo, a huge Indian pythnn in the Chicago zoo, went on a hunger strike some months ago and was steadily starving himself to death. So Cy De Vry, the animal keeper, obtained a gun used to feed sick aniniAls. It looked like a small Krupp, crossed with a sausage grinder, and it did its work effectually, fifty pounds of food being packed into his snakeship.