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Show NOTES ABOUT ANIMALS. It Is a curious fact In natural history that no bird can fly backwards. The largest serpent ever measured was a Mexican anaconda, which was found to be 37 feet in length. Durham possesses tour dogs to every pig, "while In Lincolnshire there are four pigs to every dog. In Lincoln in I re there are more pigs than In any rther county. to number reaching no fewer than 118.948. Man, has ft rival n the art of shaving shav-ing In a South American bird called the "motmot," which actually begins ihaving on arriving at maturity. Naturally Nat-urally adorned with long blue tall 'eathers, It Is not satlsfiod with thorn n their natural state, but with Its "wak nips off the web on each side, eavlng only a little oval tuft M the ad of each, V |