Lively Bunch Of Bananas
Tillisch & Co. received a consignment of bananas Wednesday, which were taken out. of the shippUfg cases and hung up, says a Watertown (3. D.) paper. Some litlle time afterwarda a lady was looking them over and discovered a snake coiled around the stem of one of the Lunches in such a way as to be entirely concealed by the overhanging fruit. She was greatly startled and called the attention of Mr. Forter, the clerk, to the fact that a snake was there, and he immediately got a pitch fork ani proceeded to investÃgate further. At the flrst jab of the fork the snake ran a hasty survey of lts surroundings, seeming to be somewhat irritated at having been disturbed. Mr. Kean, who was standing near, hit it on the head with a stock he happened to have in his hand and partially stunned it, and it was afterwards dispatched without ceremony. It measured 3 feet and 1 inch in length, its color a brownish yellow, with irregular spots of a darker hue on lts back and sides. It is not known definitely what species of snake it Is, but that it came trom the tropics and is of a venomous character there is no doubt. It is claimed by some that it is a spotted adder, but we have not yet met any one competent to vouch for its identlty. It Is on exhibition in Duffner Uros.' wlndow, being in a glass jar fillofl with al-eohol, and attracts a great deal of attention. Mr. Forter certainly had a narrow escape f rom being bitten, as in taking -out the bunehes and hanging them up he is certain he must have touched it with his hands withDut knowing it. He is quite certain on one point, however, that hereafter bananas will be handled in that store with gloves.
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