DEATH OF THE SEA SERPENT.

Evening Star, Issue 12899, 23 August 1906, Page 2

DEATH OF THE SEA SERPENT.

! Kjiowmg little or nothing about the silly season qv about the value of silly season topics, the natives of the village of BeiiyBelaid, near'Thilippevide, in Algeria, ; having discovered the eea serpent, in tlieir happy ignorance they killed it. Some people bathing on the beach of Beny-Belaid were starLkd to eeo an extraordinarily creature swimming, diving, and squirming about in the water about two hundred yards from the shore. The bathers compared notes with tho lighthouse keeper, who had also noticed' the curiosity/ and then went to beat up the tribe to which they belonged. The young Arabs came on horseback armed with axes, knives, and

guns, and the old men, the women, and children..came• to look "oi The warrior huntsmen went out, plunging and splash ing, .to ■•■ nicer/ 1 the--- monster.-;-The latter turned and: .wriggled towards them, as though Wishing, to give battle. Two shots were fired-; at it, and- it .wriggled and groaned and made as though to flee. Two ntore shots; v'aind it plunged- towards the shore and Tialf buried itself in the sand. Thereupon "the"natives, men", "women, and children, attacked it with all kinds, of weapons and killed it. The beast was then hauled out of reach of the waves by eighty young men pulling side by side. Two hours later only its skeleton remained, the natives having hacked, all the flesh, away. According to the communal reportj'the animal was seventeen, feet long, and itsgirtb was about ten feet. , It-weighed about'four tons, and its bones are exceptionally hard; indeed, it is said that a bullet from a rook rifle will flatten on the animal's forehead.— ' Standard's V Paris correspondent

A piece of old silver, dated 1599, was sold at _ about 70s per oz last week. Another piece,.however, topped it at 600s an ounce. ~■.. A couple of English wrestlers have beer debarred from competition in Association sports for two years. They had been "Barneying."