Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1896 — Curious Prehistoric Monkeys. [ARTICLE]

Curious Prehistoric Monkeys.

In several places in the Cape Colony and Orange Free State of South Africa caves have been explored which yielded hundreds of mummified remains of a queer species of six-fingered monkey. All of the full-grown specimens of this remarkable species of quadrumana have the tail situated high on the back —from three to five inches further up than that ,on the modern monkey—and other distinguishing such as two sets of canine teeth, beards on the males, etc. Whether these creatures were mummified by human beings, who formerly held them in reverence, orwere overtaken by sOme catastrophe, such as a sudden convulsion of nature or a cataclysm which entombed them in their caves,and thus preserved them, is a secret that can never be known.— Public Opinion. —Colored races never havo blue eyes. Their eyes are always dark* brown, brownish yellow or Hack.