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Show A QUEER FIND. Peter Zabella, fireman at the waterworks at JLivermore, OaL, while trying to shovel a lump of coal into the furnace made an astounding discovery. The piece he desired to place in the furnace was by the side of a larger piece. He tried to pick up the smaller lump on his shovel. He succeeded succeed-ed in getting the lump on several times, but every time that he endeavored en-deavored to toss the lump towards the furnace door it would roll off of the shovel and back to its original ori-ginal position, just as if tliere was a string tied to it Zabella made several ineffectual; efforts to get the coal in the furnace furn-ace but each time it seemed to snap U&dk to it original position. At last the man became frightened and carae to the conclusion that! the coal was l&ewitehed. Then he cooled tiown and began a systematic system-atic td entM&ently practical investigation. in-vestigation. He began working at the lump! of coal with a crrwbar. The crow-j bar settled the lamp o5 coal and the creature that inhabited it in a very short time. , j There was found ."imbedded in! the larger lump of coal a snake. ! The reptile cad coiled its tail around the smaller lump and that is what prevented Zabella from getting the small lump away from the larger one. The snake was alive when taken out, but only lived a short time after being exposed to the air. This fact makes those who inspect-. inspect-. ed the curiosity hold to the belief that the reptile had been imbedded imbed-ded in the coal in the aaine. The hole in which it was found was too email at the opening to have allowed al-lowed a snake of the size of the one discovered to have crawled in from the outside. The men made careful measurements to satisfy themselves vpon. this, amd all who saw it came to the conclusion that the reptile thai been in t2ae coal when it was mined. Ex. |