Show TEE THE HORRIBLE gila MONSTER tb the pleasant companion Com pinion oita may ec ea counter in arizona las loa angel f tribune Is be he poisonous poison out said a young mun behind the newspaper bland stand at the nadeau well I 1 should say he be wae it bis his breath though A man from arizona said the forked ton tongue gue was the sting youre wrong said a lis listener its breath is what kills people I 1 heard a woman say ay that a single blast of its breath was sure death that may be eaid said another but I 1 saw law a roan die from the bite of one and that ia is the secret of it id rather have a rattier bite me nie any day where was it queried a startled listener over in arizona was the reply A friend of mine bad one in a box just outside of a saloon and oue daj day a chap came along IV who h 0 wit was a so drunk that ho lie was ready to eat cat up the tarth ho lie waa was afraid of nothing and when be he saw the box and sign hands oft off pe 1 e swore he be could handle it and before they could prevent him be he had ripped off the slats and mado made a grab for it the thing twisted around and anti bit him on the finder fin grer and the tory story I 1 saw him die in in the street a short time after the subject of all this conversation was a pale yellow and back black blunt headed lizard about a foot n length that rested upon a bed of fund in a small emall 1700 wooden jen box it was the famous gila monster of arizona the only poisonous lizard ia in the world and as ugly acx and dis agreeable a looking creature fig es one could possibly imagine the bead was long iong and blunt the eyes black aud and bead like the tail half the length of the body thickset thick set and club like tho the cn en etire body seemed encased in a EL thinly coaled coated armor marked curi i 0 with yellow and black T the e gila monster is u sluggish and slow of movement in this respect ae ct being entirely dit different ferent from the t e tribe trib in iii general in iii its own country the amimel shows more activity specially in the dry hot regions contiguous to the gila river in confinement it has the habits of a young V alligator more than anything youg else the iti interest terest which I 1 ce pitres in in the helo lerma lies in i the poison that is supposed to lurk in its bite and perhaps no nui animal in at has box civen given rise rho to so many weird a and nd wholly imaginary stories I 1 I 1 I 1 le I 1 91 A ithe the natives and some ignorant I 1 whites suppose that its breath ie is I 1 poisonous others think that to have ono one lio the body is a had bad I 1 I 1 sign the is i simply a lit lizard z sard and the only one known t that hat can poison other animals I 1 b by y its bite a discovery made a few years ago by some naturalists natura lists who were traveling through the country the story waa was not at first believed but several were sent east where the poisonous properties were soon demonstrated A naturalist at tho the I 1 smi th was bitten and 0 baon taking elrett so quickly ohp that t he had tied barely time to call for help small animals soon die aft after er being bitten and it was shown that human I 1 beings under certain conditions might easily die lie from ane effects of the bito bite the poison of the h has as be been e n carefully examined by Afe sars mitchell bell a and nd reichert the experts who announce that the physiological ical action of the poison is entire entirely di different from that of snakes eq the he latter destroys life e by paralyzing the lie respiratory centre while the poison of the lod erroa at once attacks and affects the heart paralyzing it A among modo ahe interesting expert cx peri ants that of injecting the poison I h hag a s been tried there was no bocal local effect the heart being nt at once affected slowly contracting tr the spinal cord finally becoming paralyzed it is er probable 0 baale that thit the condition of the victim or his general health would have much to do with the question of death if a man was in in poor condition and run down bo be would possibly po sibly die while a ha h healthy a I 1 thy man would not ba be seriously troubled specimens gent to europe were exper experimented imer eted upon by sir john lu lubbock babock A frog bitten by the lizard died in a few second seconds in con valsin sin A guinea pig bitten in the hin hind leg eg pa parsed sed away in three minutes and other animals die equally ai quick creating in the in minds ands of the observers a decide 1 respect ct if the tee teeth th of tha the aspeci men at the nadeau house are examined tuey will be fould to have curious figures fi flu tires and a further and cloter look aiuto the mouth of the monster will show at tho the base of the groves mail emad dents from froin which the pois saliva flow tue is ia au an creature crea tare and while not always sure death it is well to keep it a distance and aud handle it with the care and respect due its unsavory reputation |