Show A GREAT SNAKE COLONY an enthusiast lias pine collection of venomous reptiles mr J mcgarvie smith an eminent bacteriologist of sydney australia is the proprietor of probably the greatest collection of shakea in the world says the new york world he is in the business partly for scientific purposes and partly for business he advertised some time ago for lenom ous reptiles but one publisher refused to permit the advertisement until he had satisfied himself at the sanity of the scientist the different species of venomous snakes in australia so far as known number 42 and mr smith has specimens of all of them the polson extracted from the reptiles is largely used in the pasteur institute in paris mr smith is an enthusiast on the abject of snakes and regards them as the most w wonderful ond erful of lii ing creatures lie has in his collection serpents that have gone nearly a year without food and are still fat he lias injected some of their own poison into them without the slightest ill to them As a result of his investigations he has established the fact that a nonpoisonous non poisonous snake is not affected in any way by the poison of the venomous species why said smith it does not kill one of ita own species while it is so fatal to other creatures is one of the mysteries of the almighty which we cannot unravel abw |