Show THE DEADLY A balder abone ito terrible torture next time anybody is bitten by a poisonous black spider he will confer a favor on prof H II 11 bahr if he will refrain from crushing it long enough to give the professor a chance to be bitten too he would like to demonstrate to eliat part of the public alio feel finicky about such things that the bite oc eliat same poisonous black spider is really absolutely harmless and no more painful than the sting of a wasp or a mosquito or even a flea of the california genus sir beehr is professor of entomology and and a few kotlier sciences at alie biff academy on market street and what lia know about insects of all kinds is hardly worth talking about lut if anyone should happen to be bitten by a small black spider with four or five little scarlet spots on its bak ba k lie biad better to guzzle brandy for u day or two while a strong armed attendant rubs ammonia into the wound with one hand and keeps the victim from squirming with the kotlier the professor calls that little spotted insect alie and says it is alic most venomous of all spiders not even excepting alie tarantula which is about ten times as big it is ordinarily not bigger alian a french boasts of considerably more beauty than is commonly found among spiders its body is round and covered with a beautiful velvet black growth of short fuzzy hair with the scarlet spots above mentioned on its back it has eight rather long legs for such a small body and eyes though they cannot be taken as distinguishing features of this particular species for as alic professor says all spiders have eight legs and an equal number of eyes but it is by alie location of the eyes in alie anatomy of the insect that the classifications arc made and as there are some or species known to it as no small task to distinguish which is which aliis one however may be told by the fact that four of its eyes arc located in a squad in front with the remaining four grouped in pairs on each side of its head and a little to the rear of the others the eyes are bulging and glassy find of a deep greenish line its mandibles are not very large but as many a victim can attest are capable of doing great damage its action is quick and alert arof lehr laughs at the idea that the bite of the is fatal though lie that the patient suffers the most racking tortures for several days after which if he has been properly treated recovery is a certainty he says eliat many persons may have died of fright but never from the poisonous effects of the bite the tarantula which is so universally dreaded is after all according to prof behr not at all dangerous though its bite causes considerable pain and swelling about the wound he says it is not fatal its bite is not nearly so dangerous as that of the but he that as it may it is more formidable and ugly looking and one might as well be poisoned as scared to death san francisco examiner m geo W jenkins editor of the santa maria times calan speaking of the various ailments of children said when my children haye croup there is only one patent medicine that I 1 ever use and that is chamberlains cough remedy it possesses some medical properties that relieve the little immediately in my opinion the best cough medicine in the market if abia remedy is freely beiyon as boon as the croupy cough appears it will prevent the attack it la also an ideal remedy for whooping cough there is no danger in giving it to children as it contains nothing injurious for sale by smoot drug co |