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Show ODD MUSEUM FREAKS RARE ANTIQUITIES TO BE SEEN IN KANSAS CITY. Bones of n Unnamed Beast That Was 400 Feet Long An In-terestlng In-terestlng Old Clock. In tho Kansas City museum nro tho skull bones of nn unknown beast that was 400 foot long and CO or 80 feet high. Tho skull in tin museum weighs -110 pounds, Is soVin mid n half feet In diameter, and from tho tip or the nasal bono to tho top of tho head tho distance Is 12 fret. Tho oyo Bockets aro four feet across. Ths brain cavity will hold half a busho). A portion of u rib of this animal found near tho skull Is II feot long. From till a section Roven foot long had boon broken. Perhaps tho rib was ovon longer when It wns Intnct. 'Naturalists havo been unable to nnmo this nnlmnl," nn attondnnt nt tho museum said. 'They say that, Judging from proportions, It must have been 350 or 400 feot long nnd 00 or 80 feet high. Think of nn nnl-mnl nnl-mnl moro than a block long nnd ns high ns some four-story business buildings. Tho skull of this benst was found on Little Hear crook In tho Cherokee strip in Soptembor, 1893. R. H. Phelps of Wlchltn. Knn., found n part of tho rib protruding from a Band-bar. Band-bar. An excavation was mado and tho romnlnder of tho nnlmnl wns exhumed." ex-humed." In another section of tho museum are several teeth from the hoad of a mnmmoth. Theso bits of bono nro a foot tall and nbout two feet wide Ono of thorn will weigh moro than GO pounds. Thoy wero found In Okln-liomu. Okln-liomu. And then thero nro "samples" of another an-other nnlmnl, a smnller ono. Theso The Old Clock Made Entirely of Wood. nro bones of a mastodon, a beast which In prehistoric days grow Into enormous size Somoiof the bones of Its body nro nine Inches In diameter. One of Its teoth Is ns largo as the crown of a man's hat. Theso bone woro 'found In nn excavation at Second Sec-ond street and Lydln nvenuo Juno 27, l'JOO. Hut tho bones of animals aro only ono of tho fascinating displays at tho musoum. Thero nro oriental collections, collec-tions, Egyptian relics, Indian pieces. Thoro nro birds, beasts, .Insects, fosslh curios In endless numbors. It would take n person a week to examine tho Indian curios alone Tho arrow-heads, tomahawks, pipes, beadwork moccasins, mocca-sins, aro thero In hundred lots. One little beaded bolt, mado by a Crow Indian woman, Is said to bo tho finest piece of work over seen in tho west. Tho bolt Is about two Inches wldo. tho body of buckskin. It "Is covered with thousands of colored beads, worked In so that they show a series of American Reality roses. Thoro aro arrow heads n tho musoum, mu-soum, collected nil tho way from Now York to Snn Francisco. Thero Is one largo dlsplny of them, gathered In and around Kansas City. Thoy woro mnde many years ago by tho Wyandotte. Shawneo nnd Crook tribes. Somo old mortars nnd pestles, used by tho Indians In-dians around this section of tho west, for preparing food, aro nlso on dlsplny dls-plny In tho museum. They seem so odd and crude. "Ono old rollc of which wo nro very proud," snld tho custodian of tho musoum, mu-soum, "Is this' old Soth Thomas clock, mado In Plymouth. It Is ono of the old 'grandfather's' vnrlcty, a clock mado entirely of wood. Its cogwheels uro of wood, Its regulator of wood. With tho exception of tho hands and a fow wires used as pins thero Is no steel or Iron In It. Thoro nro fow of thoso clocks In existence." Oue of tho rarest collections In tho musoum Is tho proporty.of Mrs. Clnrk Salmon, obtained from tho orient. ori-ent. Carved Ivory and mahogany Images, Im-ages, trinkets In endless variety are in It. Ono rosary In tho collection was blossed by Popo Leo XIII. |