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Show FISH HAS SNAKE'S, TONGUE. Salamander Found In Arkansas Is a Real Amphibian. TmmM Llttlo Rock, Ark. Several years H ago, during tho flood water In the Mis- tM slsslppl river nt St. Louis, a salaman jM dcr was left stranded In tho basement VmmM of n building on tho river front and was captured after tho Hood had sub- tH A rcptllo similar to tho ono can- 'M tured In St. Louis, was caught In the ;-'iaH Fourche, a sluggish stream south of Little Hock, a fnw days ago by Philip Illoom. Tho reptllo captured In tha ,M Fnurcho la a foot long, It has a forked tongue and has teeth sot buck In tho head and hisses llko a snake. It -B has gills like a fish and has cars 11 shaped llko n plume or feathers. The reptile corresponds to that found In St, There Is no question ns to Its Idcn- tlflcotlnn. It Is a true amphibian, re- tM latcd to tho frog family. T(iero wn nn anrlont supers'ltion ?U that tho salamander could live lit fire B without harm, and evon extinguish It tM by tin) coldness of Its body. Shake- iM spearo refers to this supposed at-tributo at-tributo by having one of hls charnct era say; "1 have maintained this ula-mander ula-mander of yours with fire this two and twenty years," jjH Sir T. tlrown, an, 1,-i-uUMvo nclcn-list, nclcn-list, evidently oxporlmorto't with some unfortunate specimen vlth the view liosslbly of seeing If It could be used jB ns a tiro extinguisher, for hb writes "Whereas. It Is commonly snld a sala- mander oxtlngulshotu fire, wo hnvo BB found by experience that In hot coulr BB it dleth Immediately." |