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Show Snake Culture In Australia. Snakes, according to the prevailing popular notion, should bo killed at sight as utterly melons and positively dsngerous creatures, but in Australia they are now being systematically reared for the sake ot their skins, which havo a oonslilerablo commercial value In London, I'urls and New York. Bunko skin Is tho fashionable mato-rlal mato-rlal for slippers, bells, bags, purses, card esses, Jewel boxes, drcsnlng ta-bio ta-bio accessories, etc. Ritbblt trappers supplement their means considerably by catching young snakes and extracting extract-ing tho poisonous fangs. The blacks are nlo expert anako catchers. To them the snaka Is an agreeable article arti-cle ot diet. |