Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1888 — A Horse-Hair Becomes a Snake. [ARTICLE]

A Horse -Hair Becomes a Snake.

Hartwell, Qa., Bun. Dr. Page asked us Wednesday if we didn’t want to see a horse-hair that had turned to a snake. We did; nndhe drew a bottle from his pocket, filled with water, in which was what appeared to be a diminutive snake five or six inches long, writhing and twisting, as if anxious to escape from the bottle. When put in the bottle it was nothing more than a hair from a horse’s tail. Dr. Matthews says the hair does not undergo change, but that invisible animalcules that generate in the water collect on the hair and. makes it twist and squirm after the manner of a snake or worm. It is held by good authority that many of the so-called animalcules have been shown to be plants; having locomotive powers something like animals; the motion, however, is not supposed to be voluntary. But the horse-hair makes a first-class snake, all the same.