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About Hale's weekly. (Conyers, Ga.) 1892-1895 | View Entire Issue (July 23, 1892)
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. . ■»< A Bird Which Makes Itsell Useful 1 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. 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