| Show SPLICED A SNAKE of experiment in ci attla dr G A countryman of mellette S D possesses a combination snake say the minneapolis journal it is half carter and half sand snake and alm peculiar composition was made possible pos sibl by a surgical operation performed by a doctor ills attention was directed to snakes from observing that when a snake is killed its tail appears to live until the sun goes down when life ceases it is thought by many that this is owing to the nerves hut the doctor was somewhat skeptical on this point being a surgeon he dissected several and made some interesting discoveries co veries he found that in both the sand and garter snakes the spinal column extended little more than half the length of the body knowing that it was possible to graft flesh this led him to chloroform them and try splicing them making the splice of course below the end of the spinal column lie made four unsuccessful attempts but succeeded in the fifth the grafted snake he has now is apparently in good health and the joined parts are perfectly knitted together its body is of the sand snake and its tail is a garter snakes the sand snake is spotted and looks exactly like a rattlesnake while the garter snake is striped and its color is of the different shades of green and yellow both of these varieties of snakes are harmless and common throughout the slate |
