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r The Supreme Court of Arkansas has
fecided that husband and wife cannot
jarry on a business co-partnership.
The new debt of the city of New
York is $98,000,000. Philadelphia and
Brooklyn combined have the same
amount of debt, and substantially the
same population as New York.
The Kansas Court of Appeals has de¬
cided that the holder of an accident
policy must keep out cf known dangers.
The complainant in the case had lost a
foot by attempting to pass between two
cars that had beeii temporarily stopped.
The number of “Jacks” such as “Jack
the Peeper" aud “Jack the Hugger"
that have arisen siucc “Jack the Ripper”
appeared in print is, to the Washington.
Star, astonishing. They continue to
spring up iu a way that promises a forci¬
ble illustration of the declaration “the
evil that men do lives after them.”
The Boston Herald says: The Suez
Canal’s receipts are increasing so rapidly
that it proposed to reduce the tolls. If
It were owned by an American corpora¬
tion, the chances are that the stock would
be doubled, a watermelon cut, and the
dividends increased. They don’t seem to
be up to snuff over on the other side.
Eugene Field says in the Chicago
News Record. “Thelinen duster is prac
ticaily a thing of the past, although it is
still manufactured, as we are told, for
the trade in certain parts of the country.
Twelve years ago it was exceedingly
popular with marching clubs, for it was
serviceable either in warm or iu cold
weather. In warm weather it was worn
next to the shirt, and no spectator could
be scandalized thereby; in cold w-eather
it was worn over the coat and served as
further means of warmth, AVe are sorry
to see the linen duster pass out; for it was
always useful aud cheap, if not always
pleasing to the eye."
The Rev. Charles A. Berry, the latest
Briton to write a bock about America,
>aw some picturesque scenes and heard
gome entertaining tales in the Canadian
Rockies, relates the New York World.
He discovered that it was the correct
thing for stage-drivers to get drunk be¬
fore 9 in the morning, and he learned all
about the smuggling of whisky in kero
eene barrels and in egg-shells from which
the original contents had been deftly ex¬
tracted. “Even logs of timber,” says
Mr. Berry, “have been known to con¬
vey more spirit than sawdust.” For these
and other wonders of the AVest the rev¬
erend gentleman had au open mouth and
an over-ready memorandum book. It is
interesting, in connection with the Rev,
Berry's trips, to remember that it is just
fifty years ago that Charles Dickens
sailed from New York for home after
“doing the States," and then proceeded
to set the fashion of doing them up in a
book.
The Salvation Army in California has
augmented its forces with a body ol
musical troopers known as the Halleujab
Cavalry, and during the hot season this
cavalcade will sweep along the highways,
arousing the unconverted. Flaming
posters headed “Bombardment by the
Hallelujah Cavalry” have been displayed
all over the State. The idea is a new
one iu the methods of the Army, and
originated with “Major" Kyle, the com¬
mander of the Salvationists ou the Pacific
Coast. No women are to be allowed tc
accompany the mounted warriors, foi
what the New York Post thinks the
sufficient reason that the horses pressed
into service are Nevada broncos unac¬
customed to the blare of trumpets aud
the boom of the big drum. A cowboy
convert has promised, however, to muk<
the animals tractable after a fashion.
The music of the cavalry will be furn¬
ished by ten brass instruments, banjos,
drums, horns aud tambourines. Regulai
cavalry saddles have been purchased for
the men and will be set off with red
braided saddle cloths. The uniform
will be white cavalry fatigue hats, loose
red blouses, and cavalry boots tipped
with long spurs, more for the clauking
they will make than to rowel the broncos.
The leading riders will carry lances and
fluttering pennons. The troopers will
camp along their route in regular army
style. They expect to penetrate the
mountain and desert parts of the States
where churches and meeting-houses are
net to be found. The cooking of the
Halleujab Cavalry is to be done by
Lieutenant Fong See, a Chinese con¬
vert.
HABITS OF ALLIGATORS' I
fi. HUNTER'S CURIOUS EJKPE'RI- (
ENCE IN FLORIDA.
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to the Bi«: Sauriau—Capturing
an Alligator Alive.
a I T was my first hunting trip in
Florida, and I was anxious to
shoot an alligator; so I snatched
up my gun before the camp was
half made and wandered along the bank
of the Indian River, looking for one. Al¬
though I wanted big game, I did not de¬
spise the small, and so carried a double
barreled breechloader, one barrel of
which threw ball and the other shot. I
had a splendid retriever, too, for which
I had paid a pretty sum and I expected
him to earn his price.
“It was not long before I came upon
a little flock of coots, a curious water
fowl, looking like a cross between a duck
and a hen. I fired into the flock and
killed two. My dog dashed in after
them, and retrieving one, brought it
ashore. AVhen he turned to go after the
other, it was gone. I thought it strange,
and so did the dog evidently, for he
swam all about, iooking for it. Sudden¬
ly he gave a yelp, struggled violently
for a moment in the water and then dis¬
appeared beneath the surface.
“I had found my alligator, That
thought struck me at once, Aud he had
found my expensive dog and I did not
like the meeting one little bit. Not
knowing how big the brute might be,
and having had no experience of alliga¬
tors anyway, I felt genuinely afraid to
tackle this unseen, noiseless foe and go
to my dog’s rescue. Wading cautiously
in, I leaped upon a fallen tree which lay
half in and half out of the water, a few
yards from shore. On the other side of
it the river became suddenly deep and
here I could see my poor dog, held un¬
der water in the jaws of a good sized al¬
ligator, and slowly drowning. The al¬
ligator was taking things coolly. He
was in no hurry. Nature had fitted him
on purpose to drown animals in his jaws,
while he breathed freely in the air
above. His nostrils were on top of his
upper jaw, at the end, and he was thus
able to keep them just above the surface
of the water, while my dog was wholly
immersed.
“Quick as a flash I fired both barrels
at him. The bullet struck the water
just above his head and ricocheted rods
and rods away; the shot kicked up a lit¬
tle ripple about him and that was all.
Ho dived deeper aud moved oH with my
dog and I never saw either of them
again. That was my first experience
with an alligator.
“The next one I met was lying bask¬
ing in the sun on a mud flat. 1 crawled
cautiously up within gunshot and before
firing, watched the curious creature. I
was astonished to see a little plover set¬
tle on his ugly head and began to pick,
pick, pick among the big brute’s scales.
Though I ‘My little fellow, you will be
snapped up by those cruel jaws for your
impertinence.’ Presently the plover got
around to the alligator’s nose, still pick¬
ing, picking, and the big jaws began to
open slowly. They opened about a foot
and to my surprise the little plover
walked right inside and began to pick
more vigorously than ever among the
horrid teeth. I laughed so that the alli¬
gator took alarm and waddled into deep
water; not without holding his jaws
open long enough, however, for the
plover to come out of his mouth and fly
away.
I afterward learned that this species of
plover greedily eats the water leeches
which fasten ou the alligator’s gums and
pests which burrow under his scales and
the big lizzard will not hurt the bird sc
useful to him.
“My third alligator I shot dead and I
had the pleasure of skinning him. I
learned then how the brute can hold its
mouth wide open under water, without
letting any go down its throat or wind¬
pipe. There is a valve in the back of its
mouth which can be made to shut off
the mouth completely from the throat,
and as the upper jaw lifts upward aud
the nostrils are on top, as I said before,
the creature can breathe without show¬
ing anything above water but the tip of |
its nose, |
11 Everybody knows that an alligator
is well supplied with teeth; but few
know that the baby alligator is born with
all its teeth in place. They are conical
ou top and hollow at the base. The new
ones come up and shove their conical !
tops into the hollow bases of the old j
ones, gradually forciug them out. This j
shedding and renewing of teeth goes on
all its life. Moreover, a baby alligator
probably grows more, in proportion, than
any other animal. It comes out of a
shell no bigger than a goose-egg. From
the start he has to fear the caunibalistic curious j
appetite of its father. It is a
fact that his ancestors had the same trick,
for in the fossilized bodies of the male
plesiosaurus have been found the fossil¬
ized fragments of baby plesiosauri.
“Arv fourth and last alligator I cap¬
tured alive with the aid of a daring col¬
ored man. By the meaus of a squealing,
hungry little pig tied to a tree a short
way from the river bank, we enticed a
fine, medium sized alligator to crawl up
the bank aud a little way into the grass
after the succulent porker. Tben we
get between him and the river aud with
a singular boldness and agility, my hunt
ing companion jumped astride the back
of the scaly beast and bending down,
grasped one of its short fore legs in each
hand, and by main strength dragged
th#m back and yanked them upon the
b m ti ir'^LTC. n
this undignified position the alligator fsll
forward and could only lash its tail about
in impotent rage, It was not hard to
tie it up after that, but it seemed to me
a dangerous way to ‘monkey’ witn a
‘gator."—New York Tribune.
SELECT SIFTINtiS.
Rats are natives of Asia.
Twelve average tea plants produce one
pound of tea.
1635 The by site John of Boston, Blackstone Mass., tor was^sold $150. in
A boy, while wading in a pond in
Jefferson County, Florida, was struck by
an alligator’s tail, and had his ieg broken
in two places.
Glass beads pass as money in parts of
Africa. In Masai, five blue beads will
buy a woman, but ten of them are neces¬
sary to buy a cow.
Mrs. E. H. Robertson, of Stokes
County, North Carolina, is cutting her
third set of teeth. She is in her eighty
eighth year of her age.
More people were executed in England
during the reign of King Henry VIII.
than ever before or since in the tight
little island, the number reaching 71,-
400.
A Knoxville (Tenn.) man has captured
a curiosity in the form of a mocking
bird, or, iu reality, two birds grown to¬
gether in body, but .separate in heads
and song.
Lake Erie, it is said, produces more
fish to the square mile than any body of
water in the world. This because of the
result of the good work done by the
United States Fish Commissioners.
A trained terrier, with a light cord at¬
tached to his neck, runs through under¬
ground conduits, from one manhole to
another, in London streets, Thus elec
trie wires are safely and hurriedly drawn
from station to station.
Chinese witnesses have a peculiar
“saucer oath.” AVhen put in the box
they say, “If I do not speak the truth
may my soul be cracked and broken like
this saucer;” and then they dash the
saucer against the wood-work and shatter
it.
The hose used in sprinkling the
plazas of Paris is a queer contrivance. It
consists of lengths of iron pipe, each
length mounted at the end on short
axles having two small wheels aud the
lengths joined together by short pieces
of flexible hose.
An autograph manuscript of Charles
Lamb, two folio pages in length, was
sold in London the other day for $250
—just about one-third of the yearly
salary Lamb earned by his “dry drudgery
of the desk’s dead wood” to which Presi¬
dent Harrison referred in a recent inter¬
view.
In 1016 an awful famine raged through
out all Europe, and again from 1193 to
1195, when complete failures caused ter¬
rible suffering. In England and France
the people ate the flesh of dogs and cats,
and many cases of cannibalism were re¬
corded. During the latter three years
thousands upon thousands perished from
starvation.
A two-year-old girl fell from the
fourth story of a New York tenement
house one day recently. On the way
down she met with sundry clothes-lines,
and was considerably tossed about.
AVhen she landed on the stone flagging
of the court-yard, she was picked up un¬
hurt save for a scratch on her forehead.
She fell sixty feet.
All bread is not made from the flour
of the cereals. Along the Columbia
River, in Oregon, a kind of bread is
made by the Indians from a moss that
grows on the spruce fir tree. This moss
is prepared by placing it in heaps,
sprinkling il with water and permitting
it to ferment. Then it is rolled into
balls as big as a man’s head and baked
in pits.
In excavating some ancient Aztec ruins
in the direction of Cbaee Canon, New
Mexico, Governor Prince has unearthed
twenty stone idols of a different type
from any before discovered. They are
circular iu shape, forming disss from six
to fifteen inches in diameter, the upper
half containing a deep carved face, and
the lower half rudimentary arms in re¬
lief. The idols are believed to be at
least 600 years old.
The custom of placing crape on the
door of a house where there has been a
recent oeatn had its origin in the ancient
English heraldic customs and dates as
^ ar Kick, at least, as the year 1100 A.
period hatchments or ar
morial ensigns were placed in front of
houses when the nobility and gentry
filed- these hatchments were oi dia
mond shape, and contained the family
arms quartered and colored with sable,
Value of the Tr e.
Discussing the value of the tree as a
schoolmaster, Garden and Forest pre
seats as the first of its lessons that “it
teaches man to reserve judgement by
showing that the insignificance of a germ
is uo criterion of the magnitude of its
product, that slowness of develoment is
not au index of the scope of growth,
and proves to him that the most far
reaching results can be attaiged by very
simple means. A barrel of acorns may
be the nucleus of a forest that shall
cherish streams to fertilize a desert; a
handful of cedar ccnes may avert an
avalanche, while a bushel of pine seed
may prevent the depopulation of a great
section of country by mountain tor
rents.”
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