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Show SNAKE THAT SWALLOWED A PIG. And His Remarkable Gluttony Cost Him His Life. ; A gentleman living in Java reports that a big snake was recently shot in a ricefield at the back of his bungalow after it had just swallowed a live pig. The reptile was thick and long, measuring meas-uring eight feet from teeth to tail, but even considering his size, the big meal must have caused him considerable consider-able inconvenience, for when discovered discov-ered he was unable to make his escape es-cape and he fell an easy victim to the skin-hunting natives. Snakes in Java are not killed because they are a menace to human life, but simply because be-cause of the commercial value of their skins. Easy Divorce in Old Times. The code of King Khammurabi of Assyria, whose date is approximately 2200 B. C, which has been deciphered from a pillar discovered a year or two ago at Susa, deals exhaustively with the subject of divorce. One of the most interesting clauses is the following: follow-ing: "If the wife of a man who dwells in the house of that man has set her face to go forth, and has acted the fool, and wasted his house, and impoverished impov-erished his house, they shall call her to account. If the husband shall say, I put her away, he shall put hr away. She shall go her way; for her divorce he 6hall give her nothing." |