Show THE GILA MONSTER THE tha manner in which the eastern press sometimes seize upon an aa item from the pacific slope and work it up into proportions greatly beyond anything justified by the premises is sometimes amusing and at others something else one of them has an account of a gila monster an enlarged type of lizard with which our poo people pie in southern utah and arizona are quite familiar and which is no more a monster than the homed toad of all parts of the coast is and not nearly so much so agthe alligator of florida and louisiana to the reptile the faked latin appellation of non gua ama denam to is applied this being enough to supply what little in the matter of alleged terror error the animal itself lacks it is described as a cross between a rattlesnake and a lizard but as it has no resemblance to a snake of any kind and is itself a lizard we presume the cross occurs in the venom with which its glands or fangs is charged in this respect it is much more deadly than the rattlesnake its bite an a dog having produced death in fifteen minutes while victims of the serpents sting have been known to live three or four hours so very volatile is the poison of the monster that its breath to is Ali alief Sf a charged with it it is related that some philadelphia scientists recently experimented with the breath holding a watch crystal in front of the creatures creature 19 nose until a sm 11 quantity of the vapor condensed was gathered this was placed in a tiny syringe and injected into the throat of a dove death being instantaneous while the reptile is very dangerous when in dangerous moods it does not appear that these are on him very often indeed we have yet to hear of the first human being bitten by one of them the dog referred to had worried and aggravated grava ted the captive until it got a nip on the noise when it quit forever they are very timid and will get out of your way without being poked they grow to a length of sixteen or sev seventeen enteen inches but rarely exceed twelve or thirteen inches while not answering all the require mento mente of an ideal monster or a monter monster at all we would hardly recommend them for pets nor would we pare care to have them around the house for any purpose |