Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1891 — They Will not Stay Extinct. [ARTICLE]

They Will not Stay Extinct.

The school books used to tell us that the Cave Dwellers were extinct, but now they have found a settlement of Cave Dwellers in New Mexico, alive and active, who never imagined they had been relegated by the learned scholars of the world to the dim and remote antiquity of prehistoric time. Here we have been living in the same country with them as contemporary fellow-citizens, and imagining all the time that there had not been a soul of them alive since the time of Noah. We have always supposed that mastodons~were extinct; but now they have found them, alive and hearty in the interior of Alaska, and it i§ supposed, if we penetrate farther, we may And them as thick as cows and horses in America. Some scientists are already beginning to question if any order of life that ever inhibited the planet is absolutely extinct, and await the further exploration of Africa to bring to light the unicorn, the behemoth, the dedo, the phoenix, the centaur and the ten lost tribes of Israel.—Yankee Blade.