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Show Mastodon Finally Clothed. I After standing for half a century V In his bones in the New York State museum, a mastodon of the Ice ag-.i has been clothed with skin, and now j bears a colorful resemblance to th animal who ranged the northern hemisphere hemi-sphere in thoso remote times. The skeleton was excavuted at Co-hoes Co-hoes In ISliO. Dental trouble in the right Jaw had arrested Its development develop-ment ; hence it became known as the mastodon with the toothache. After more than a year's work a lifelike restoration res-toration of the animal has been completed com-pleted by a staff of naturalists, who made careful researches. A photograph photo-graph of the reconstructed monstei shows that It is a cros4 between bison and an elephant. i |