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Show 8nakes Reared for Their Skins. Tho Idea that snakes nro useless creatures and should bo oxtermlnnted wherever found, will have to pass away, says the Shoo Trade Journal, as In Australia they are now being systematically reared for tho sake of tholr skins, which have a consldora-bio consldora-bio commercial value In London, Paris and New York. Snnkeskln Is tho fashionable matorlnl for sllppors, bolts, bags, purses, Jowol boxes, curd cases, dresslng-tablo accessories, etc. Rabbit trappers supplement their means considerably by catching young snakes and extracting tholr polnson-ous polnson-ous fangs, Tho blacks aro also expert ex-pert snako catchers. To them tho snake Is nu agrceablo articlo of diet. |