Show hough on the knales snake stones are always m order in tha spring and the latest one corner from an interior town in ohio where the heat from the stove awakened the reptiles and they commenced to fall to the floor from holes in the ceiling john thompson who lives m the cheat nver country was in the city yesterday buying provisions for a lumber camp he tells a tale that 13 not unreasonable and one can readily believe it the moun Luns along the cheat are famous for their and they can be seen at any time during the day in the summer sunning themselves on the rocks mr thompson says when the weather suddenly broke up about april 1 and led a number of people to throw off their underclothes the black snakes awoke with a start rubbed their eyes and crawled out on the rocks to stretch themselves the sun was so warm that many ot them ventured far away from their winter homes and when it suddenly got cold again the snakes get back mr thompson claims he got tired of killing black snakes which were so stiff that they move they were stretched out on the stones and were at the mercy of the lumbermen who amused themselves making the flat heads of the snakes more flat this is a true story pittsburg Pitts borg dispatch |