Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1888 — THE MAID AND THE VIPER. [ARTICLE]

THE MAID AND THE VIPER.

An Exciting ami ralnfut Experience with ■ (> Snake. In the . family of a settler wlio resides some lialfji league from Parainetta was an invalid daughter of an extremely nervous qemperameat. She was sleeping one sinnm- r afternoon in a hummock swung lie-, lwni.il Iwo standards ill the shade of the .piazza. when she was suddenly awakened by feeling sonietliimi cold and ivu.&iLcliiiging about her throat, bhe put iirr. Irt.uid Id tlie spot and clasped the body of a snake .fust bac kof the head, anil, with a lorniltfl cry, wrenched with all her. -tseaefh to wrench it away. This was the,. iiiSftnctlV?} action of.tlie molneul,"bot • so gjei'.t was her' teiT.ir that, she sjieedUy Jon al! consciousness of her position. Her Inuni . however,, still -grapsed the Mtake where she had first seized it, and with such i-cuv-ulsive force that the erenuu-e wte rendered Tiie iry of the terrified girl brought the father froin whh iu jlie house, who in-tantlv cahie to ller . relief; but iu the tit which lier flight induced her hand’ slowly contracted about the creature’s throat with a force which she could not possibly have exerted wbeu •awake, and, before her fingers were unclasped by the aid of a bit/of hammock torsi the reptile was ooroptefely strut ffled. Fortiinateiy the creattmi had not bitten the. girl before id)g»iieized it. and -after that it was unable to do.so. It is said to have been four feet long and of a poisonous species. ■ ' ; ■ ~.' ‘ 1

PortJrtiul’s Ari(to CUGiYman. Portland, ©re., has a Clirntnmm who has set up ids own private 'carriage, and if would be safe to say that no other.city i: America ran say the same; probably tu ciiv iu the world can, for it is not customary for even the Emperor of China, or auV of his grandees,-to use horses or car. ria ir e. The man referred to is JSeid Back, a~weTrEpßW~yroirt streel merchant. who aviULreea taking an airing iti a neat road cart behind a cadet pony, which he iatc'.y ..purchased-- Sad -Back has ■hm-'* idy-Ao-hi a ted fa'da'c but , several pieces of retd est-ite ;ti the m , owns stock in several, enrpor :! ■:: w.h.',, ydeht-tntti'hrrnd'AliVrd.aeisatc.'l is tyv ■ • Uk* -sub briber.-, to the new. A.'xdL 11c- ; well known a id ha? rood standing fttntm business man.