Lynchburg Virginian

Great Curiosity.—We wonder how large the largest animal was in the days of old. There are specimens of bones to be seen at No 300 Broadway, a few doors above the Masonic Hall, which must have belonged to an animal as big as the Park Theatre. One side of the underjaw bone is twenty feet in length, and the ribs are nine feet long! The other bones are of proportionate size, three in width, weighing 1200 pounds. These relics were discovered in the valley of the Mississippi. They were found seventeen feet below the surface, and we are told by the proprietor that the labor of getting them out was prodigious, as the water poured in so fast upon the workmen that a steam engine would have been necessary to discharge it, before the whole skeleton could have been raised. These bones must have been in active motion at the time when man

"Went forth with a pine
As a spear 'gainst the mammoth,
And struck through the ravine
At the foaming behemoth."

Men and animals have sadly dwindled since that period. We are becoming more and more concise every generation, and in a few more centuries mighty man will be a Lacedemonian letter. It will be a great saving in the tailor's bills of our posterity.

These wonderful remains are well worthy the attention of the curious, and amongst the curious we rank nine-tenths of our readers.

[N. Y. Eng.