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Show SEND RATTLESNAKE BY MAIL Callfornlan Made Cuatodlan of Innumerable Innu-merable Collection of Spiders, Bugs and Strange Things. loa Anaelea, Cal A lira rattlesnake held captive In a large oil can which In turn wab 'reinforced with a wooden boa arrive at (be llollenbeek eonelaDed lo Charles Mead. HI lire his receipt of Ibe rare Iji-trodectua Iji-trodectua ninnctua, or red spotted spider, tha most poisonous Insect of Its kind, Htnead haa been miida the cu.iistlan of an Innumerable collection of spldera, bugs and curious living things that crawl, creep and fly, the latest being the rattlesnake. A friend residing In i'alznna having hav-ing read of the fact that the hotel man bad received the aplder decided on a more peculiar gift and aa a result re-sult aet out to rnlch the snnke. of which species thra are ninny In that section of Ihe country. In a letter accompanying ac-companying th girt, the donor mentions men-tions tlie manner of Its capture snd hopes thai Hiiic.kI will be at.te to nd.l lu (he rull.uillnu which he has or la making for the southwest museum. As yet Hiiiend hns not been able to decide j whether the serpent shall be killed and his skin untied and stuffed or whether In turn It over to sonm of the Main slr.et shle show fakers. From li.ui Cabroa, nn the Mexican border, Hmead several days ngo received re-ceived one of tbe most perfect speel-meua speel-meua of a scorpion eer seen here. It Is flve-and one half tnrhes In length with not a vertebra or a claw dle-plnced dle-plnced In Ibe horrible land crab. In addition two splendid specimens of tbe centipede were Inclosed. A mining man residing In Ixiwer California undertook to show bis aa-teeni aa-teeni for the hotel man by shipping til in a pair of bats raptured In a grent guano rave aloig the west shore, Th. y were bulb dead, but preserved In such a manner thai they will keep for a long lime. In the letter accompanying accom-panying the bats the mining man tells a wonderful tale of the millions of thise night flyers that at about aeven o'clock In the evening begin to leave the ravea. "They pour forth In one ateady stream for a perbal of mora than three hours, all going out over tbe ocean In their flight. Al ebout three o'eloek la Ihe morning they begin lo return, flying fly-ing from the land side, having avl-' dent ly completed a big circle lu their fllpht. Agnln It takes them several hours lo get Inside. Tbe ravea are so foul smelling, so vilely black Hint they have never beeu fully esplurad." |