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The Alligator Industry.

The business of killing and catching
alligators gives occupation TO many
persons in the South. According to
the st. Louis Globe Democrat the hide
of a large alligator is worth from one
to two dollars. 1t is almost u days
task to skin a large one. Alligator o'l
has quite a reputation as a remedy OF
rheumatism. 1t has, however a most
unpleasant smell. unless = "Her'y
treated. Many fishermen 1've bcen
known to eat portions o. re m""t. HAT
of the tail being said. Nhen rnn!td. to
have much the appearance o. Vr"laad
to taste something like pvtk. oL'se a
lucrative business is Glir. o. ca?tniiIJ
alligators alive to SEND away 'or exit
bition. Colonel Williams, when PAN
ish Fort was made a summer resort,
made a contract with Il fshernan to
fill the hole known us The alligator
pond for him, and in ."e cout.e oi a
couple of weeks lie had it stocked with
thirty or forty, ranging in length from
six inches to seven or eight fre". The
man who caught them slowed ~ ear
in handling the huge replies. W'ha
companion he wor:G carUure aau Jf'ng
into camp an alligator sixteen i TT long.
The manner u ar uoI2li>h'ny this
feat was, as he explained G''''e Simple.
The old are savage ard W.T. j9'lt for
their young, and tits 20 is taken adj
vantage of. Some OF tie young are
caught out of the spot in wl'ch the Old
one is lying, and Il Stout nooscd rope Is
then placed where TO emerge Size must
thrust her head through Il. Wien all
is ready the young a:e allowed TO cry
out, and the old n tlliusts out her
head to have her head caught in the
moose. She is dragged ay"rnd in the
water until pretty wei ri"',"G when
another moose is Sccurd ~ her tail,
and she is firmly strapped, stomach
downward, on a vide board. which she
cannot break, rs Ter powerful muscles
in the tail act "rlt i'll IL literal direction.
Her head is then fiSi md ~ The boat,
the moose ABOUT iIcr n"rl, $ removed
and she is towel away a'r' her young
have been placed in ne SIT.
Young ones are bou%'I; y dealers
for from 81 to ST adoZen. = nrt over a
foot in length. When they >rE them
they get a much higher prc' us they
are hard to preserve alive. Tie large
ones are sold differently, there being
an increase in price of 80 cents to 81
for every additional foot over !; certain
length. Alligators sixteen or eighteen
inches long are frequently sound ny
the dozens in shallow water, and a
be handled Without trouble. providing
the old one, who is generally near
does not take alarm. Most alligator,
fishers are usually tu%rtlc-hunters also.
and search along the shores of bayous
and lagoons for the holes of the ami
mails. When the hole is discovered it
is explored with long pole with a Dig
hook set in the end, and if the unfor-
tunatc resident is at home he IS
promptly dragged out in spite OF his
struggles and quickly appears in mar
kct. The eye of a young alligator is a
queer and pretty sight, having the fire
and appearance OF an opal Of a similar
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A Dangerous BedfellOW.

Ferryman IIoppy, of Arena, Wis,
recently experienced Il fearful sensa-
ton on awakening during the night.
lie felt something crawling over him,
and knew, when fairly awake, that il
was a snake. lie did not know what
to do, but finally took both hands and
threw the hcdclothcs over it and got
on it with his knees. The reptile i'm
mediately coilcd its tail around his
neck, he being on its head. by re-
pcated efforts he succeeded in uncoil'
ing it, but not before he was nearly
strangled. He gathered up snake and
clothes together, threw them from the
window that was open near the bed,
and then as quickly as he could get out
of doors caught up a pole and struck
the snake Il blow. He could see him
coiled up and could hear the rattle
showing it to be a very large rattle.
snake. AS he struck the reptile coiled
around the pole and as lie raised tho
pole to strike again it sent the snake
away out into the river. 1t was Il close
call for Mr.. Happy. lie doesn't like
such bedfellows, and has wire screens
to his windows now.
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Loves ThOughtfulnesS.

"Shall You miss me, sweetheart?'
George W. Simpson was going far
away to to the trackless solitudes of
st. Louis, and when he had told
Daphne Mccarthy of his intended jour.
ncy the girl had spoken not word,
but lain her head gently on his Shout,
der and wept as if her heart were
breaking.
But when he asked her the question
with which this chapter opens, the
little head, with its coronal of fluffy
brown hair, had risen slowly, and the
pansy brown eyes of the girl had looked
into his and CLEANED with the light of
a love that could never die.
"Shall l miss YOU" she cried, de-
spairingly. "Ah, yes, sorely enough,
But you cannot understand this. No
man can feel the loss of kisses and
love words as Il woman can, ncr hate
the slow-creeping wakeful nights and
the gray dawns that come with nc
promise of strong arms and a loving
heart and words of courage; and the
windy sunsets that die away on a day
that has held no beauty or bright.
ness. No man can feel the deadly
hunger in time Of famine that a
woman feels when love that always
beckons and allures her is out of reach
Of her longing hands and loving lips
"But I shall not be gone so very
long, darling" whispered George, "and
l have told the candy man to let you
have whatever you want on my &C.
count"
"You have done this?" asks the
girl, putting her dimpled arms around
his neck.
Yes" vas the reply.
"Then," said Daphne, the wistful
look gone from her face, "you cannot
start too soon Chicago Tribune.
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A r.rv,rpSr ~nrenared at the postofice de-

A STATEMENT prepared at the postofice de-
partment shows that the amount of money
orders issued during the fiscal year ended
June 80, 1882, was $119, 936, &c., SO, an in
crease of more than ten millions over the
previous year. The amount of orders paid
amounted to $115,O5S, 75S 63. On this
amount of business the gross revenue
amounted to 81, 199,34.s5, which, after de-
Quoting all expenses, leaves a net revenue of
about 100000.
The naval board appointed to investigate
the loss of the Jeanette met and organized.
The total cost of the free-delivery service
of the postofice department for the fiscal
year ended June 30, 1882, was $2,G23,259, an
increase over last year of $123,34S.
The signal service estimates that at least
thirteen million dollars of property and
many persons remained safely in port on &C
count of warnings from the department.
prior to the recent cyclone.
INDIAN COMMISSIONER PRICE has notified
the Indians whose support is not provided
for by treaty stipulations that they Will be
expected to labor for a livelihood.
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E,rD, md Eurden Notes.

Stockmen should not forget that il
costs no moretokeep good COWS. horses
sheep, swine and poultry than poor
ones-often not SO much-and the
profit from them is much greater. BeaI
this in mind in purchasing.
Old meadows should have a sprink'
ling of fine manure early in the autumn
to give the grass good start again be-
fore winter. We do not believe in pas
turing meadows much, if any, after
the hay crop has been removed.
When potatoes are ripe and the tops
become dry they should be at once dug
and nut into Il cool cellar. 1t is best
to nut them in small bins. Great care
should be used in digging not to cut or
bruise the tubcrs, which llastens tic
cay.
A solution of one part muriate OF
potash diluted in 1000 parts of water
is recommended as an inSccticldc toI
cabbage and currant worms and the
like. 1t is also good as plant food, sc
that what falls to the ground is not
wasted.
American farmers do not value clover
hay as highly as the English do. Tim
otiv is considered much inferior tc
clover by them; much superior by us
Glover sells in England for about TWEEN
tv per cent. more than timothy. Prop
crlv cured it is a valuable crop.
Many orchardists say it is not best tc
renew the orchard by planting in young
trees where old ones have died and been
cut down. TO a certain extent the
elements Suited to growth in the apple
wood have been extracted from the
soil and insect enemies have found To-
cation there.
A lady florist writes as follows: ]
would say to those who are troubled
with the little flies about their plants
in the winter, that since | have com
menced using separate sauccrs with
my pots, and taken to watering my
plants from the bottom, by filling the
saucers with boiling water am not
troubled with the little flies, and |
think the plants do much better
watcred in this way than by pouring
the water on the top.
Professor Henry says: 1 would
urge that our farmers feed more oats to
young stock, colts as well as calves
There is no food easily obtainable that
will SO well correct acidjty of the
stomach and keep The whole system in
good order. Tothose who wish toralSe
calves on very little milk, l would say,
use oats and oil meal freely, and by
studying the wants of your calves you
will be able to raise fine animals on a
small allowance of milk.
The fuchia, says Vick's Mqgastne,
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Mems Heads.

The question whether our heads are
smaller than those of our grandfathers
has been attracting considerable atten-
ton in European scientific circles
during the last few weeks. The sub
ject was first agitated by writer's for
Nature, London, one of whom, Mr.. f.
F. Tuckett, insists that the average
size of hats has decreased one size
within the last twenty-five years,
which means, if the criterion is to be
trusted, a diminution of t~hree-eighths
of an inch in average circumference.
AS Mr.. Tuckett adduces in evidence OF
his assertion the testimony Of leading
matters in London, he is probably right
so far as that part of the case is con-
cerned. But there are, as Mr.. Charles
Roberts explains in a rejoinder to Mr.
Tuckett, various reasons for the aver
age decrease in size Of hats, without
accepting tn at gentleman's view
of the cause. In the first
place, men wear their hair cropped
more closely than they did years ago,
and in the second the fashion now is
to wear ones hat on the top of the
head, instead of pulling it down over
the ears as was done by men of the
last generation. Again, the tall hat is
now worn by a large class of persons
who are uniformly small-headed,
such as clerks and shopmen, who
formerly did not affect such a luxury
while on the other hand many persons
of the large-headed. class, clergymen
and others, who wore tall hats only
years ago, have now given them up
and prefer the soft felt to the uncom-
Portable section Of stove-pipe once in
vogue. The only way to get ut the
truth would be to examine the Stats
tics of each class separately, and to
make an allowance of a quarter
of an inch for the present
mode of wearing the hat and of
cropping the hair. But if MI. Tuck
ett's view is to be accepted, then, while
the head has not lost in size there has
been a general gain in weight and
vigor of body; for, comparing the sta
tstics of factory children in 1888 with
those of 1873 in England, it is found
that children of ten years of age now
are as tall Of stature and as heavy as
children Of eleven years of age were
forty years ago. There is a great va
riety, however, in the size Of heads
among the intellectual classes in Eng
land. According to Mr.. Tuckctt, Lord
Chelmsford wear a 81 hat only and the
sizes of somcpromincnt people he gives
as follows: The late Dean Stanley, 81;
Lord Bcaconsleld, Z; the Prince OF
Wales, Z; Charles Dickens, q; Lord
Russell, a; Macaulay, the historian,
x; Mr.. Gladstone, e; Tllackeray, q;
Louis Philippe, x; NJ. Julien, the ceIe,
DRAFTED musical conductor, e, and the
Archbishop of York, 8. The prelate
must possess Il head of nearly twenty
four inches in circumference, while
that of Dickens was average, that OF
Thackergy beyond the average, and
the pumpkin-hcad of Louis Philippe
was very large.
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4 Poem Written on n Grain of Rice.

A Chinese teacher in the colony has
Just presented quite Il curiosity to the
city hall Museum. Many of u read
ers have doubtless seen specimens of
printing compressed within very small
limits, such for instance as the Whole
of the Lords prayer contained within
u circle the size of Il finger ring. This,
however, is not Il specimen OF minute
Typography but of caligraphy, for it
consists of a stanza Of poetry, com
posed by the teacher himself, which
contains thirty-thrce distinct and well
formed Chinese characters written out
in the full style without any contrac-
lions, though the most complicated
characters are not introduced into this
liliputian poem. 1t seems almost in
credible, but it is a fact that the whole
of these thirty-tliree characters are in
scribed on one grain of unhulled rice.
1t is only another instance of the pa
tient toll which Chinaman will spend
over apparently Wnremunerativc work.
.-Ocerldnd Chin0 Mail.
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TEE WEEKS NEWS.
Eas,ern and Middle States.

AF1RE which broke out in the Democrat
Office Mt Ridgcway, Pa, destroyed seventeen
of the principal business places, including
the Democrat and the Advocate Offices, be-
fore it could be controlled. The aggregate
loss is estimated at $4,000.
A BUFFALO dispatch says that a dummy
engine crossing the International bridge,
which connects Black Rock with Fort Erie,
plunged through an open draw into Niagara
river thirty feet below. Six persons were
on the engine, and of these William Rowan,
engineer, and Edward Hershey, a farmer,
we're killed; the others were injured.
WHILE Assemblyman Amasa ]. Parker, Jr.,
accompanied by his wife and two other Ia
dies, was driving a spirited team at Albany,
N. Y, the horses ran away. Mr.. Parker was
thrown out of the carriage and had his leg
broken, and it was feared that his skull was
fractured. The horses kept or until they
ran against a tree, throwing out the three
lady occupants of the vehicle, one OF whom,
Mrs. Lewis Rathbone, vito Of prominent
retired manufacturer of Albany, was in.
stantly killed.
AT Utica, N, Y, Judges Wallace and Cox
refused 10 grant a writ of habeas corpus in
the case of Sergeant Mason, imprisoned for
shooting ct Guiteau during the assassin's
trial.
Hon. A. BARTON HEPBURN, nominated by
the New York Republican State convention
at Saratoga for Congressman at large, has
written a letter declining the nomination.
Miss LAFoRaE, who was betrothed to
Lieutenant Chip, of the Jeannette expedi'
ton, died recently at Ocean Grove, N. j,
When news came of the ~Jeannette's loss
Miss LaForge fell i'll and became n wrec-
physically and mentally. She was taken from
her home on the Hudson river to the sea
shore, where she died.
AT a meeting of the State committee Of
the New york Anti-Monopoly party held II
Albany an address supporting the Demo
cratic State ticket was adopted.
A PASSENGER train on the Mont Alto rail
| road ran over a COW about seven miles eas
of Chambersburg, Pa. One passenger Cal
WINS thrown from the track, and nine pas,
sengers were injured, lone fatally.
A WORKMAN who was making some repair
on electric light wires in New York allowed
his hands to come in contact with both end
of the wires and received such a tremendou
electrical shock that death ensued in q few
minutes.
AT the Connecticut Democratic State con
vention in Hartford Thomas NJ. Waller wa
nominated for governor, George G. Sumlne
for acknowledgement, D. Ward Northrol
for secretary of state, Aired R. Goodrich TO
treasurer and Thomas R. Sanford for comp
troller.
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likes a slight shade and a cool soil,
and then, provided with moisture, it
will stand as high a temperature as
may prevail. Place the plants in the
open, a little shady, such a place as
the north side of a house furnishes,
and there is no fear but they will do
all one may expect from them. II
they are to remain on the piazza or the
window-sill, the pots should be sunk
up to the rim in a box of soil which
can be kept moist ; then, if the drain
age is kept open, they will hold their
foliage and flourish.
Mr.. Wright recommends the follow
ing for poultry cholera, to be given
every three hours: 'Rhubarb, five
grains; cayenne pepper, two grains;
laudanum, ten drops; administering
midway between every two doses a
teaspoonful of brandy, in rather less
than it's bulk Of water, with five drops
of McDougals fluid carbolate in each
dose. Carbolic acid, in small doses,
may be substituted for the carbolate,
if not accessible. The yards should be
disinfected with carbolic acid as a
measure of prudence, and for the same
reason it is better to separate the sick
from the well fowls, although the dis
ease is not proven contagious" Any
treatment, to be effective, must be be-
gun atan early period.
One can form but an imperfect
estimate of the value of a field OF roots
by knowing the weight of the largest
one grown. Very large roots do not
mean very large returns; medium
sized roots and more of them are a
more paying crop. Other things re-
naming the same, the size OF the roots
depends upon the thinning. at this
season of the year, when the roots are
growing vigorously, they should be
thinned, so that they shall have
space between them in the rows equal
to their own diameter, and no more
1t is better for the roots to be ten than
fourteen inches apart in the rows. II
the thinning be carried beyond this
they grow large and coarse, and will BIZ
much less valuable food than thu
smaller ones.
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Mortality Anon: Railroad Employees

The slaughter of railroad employees
amounts to between twelve and fifteen
hundred killed each year, and from five
to ten thousand injured. Most of the
accidents are the result of working in
the depot yards and on freight trains.
This mortality is one of the items of
modern improvements, but as inven-
lions in machinery are perfected and
adopted these figures will grow less
proportionately.- Dr.. Foote's Health
n6DtLJU
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Miniature kanrar0OS.

There is Il kind of dwarf Kangaroo
in the Stukul llainsuf Northern Texas
Its body is about eight inches long; IT.
fore legs are not more than an mel
and Il half or two inches in length
while its hind legs arc I'LL of six inches
1t has Il tail about eight inches long
completely bare except Il t"tt OF long
hairs at the end and Il ridge Of short
hairs on its upper part. 1t is also j.;
marsrpial, the pouch being we'll de-
vcloped. 1t is of a soft blue color. IT.
only mode-of locomotion is Ivy jump
ing, precisely like the Kangaroo. II
can Jump eight or ten feet.
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Total li,JlU,i ~ w
The above does not include payments
made on account of the interest or principal
of the public debt of ths United States.
The total funded Indebtedness of the Dis
trict of Columbia is $2l GG9,G0O.
Or tho whole number of letters and par
GELS opened in the dead letter office during
the year ended juno 20, 1882, 1889 con-
tanned money.
The coinage executed ut the various minis
of the United States during September
amounted in value to $S,0Oo.oo52.
PROFESSOR ". C. TILDEN has submitted to
District Attorney Corkhill his official report
of q chemical examination he has concluded
of the poisoned bouquet that was given to
Guiteau by his sister, Mrs. Scovillc, the day
before his execution. Tho report says that
the largo bud Ga half-opencd tlowcr) coll
tanned over five grains of "whitc nrscnic'
(arsenious acid. This quantity was not only
sufficient to cause death to ANY human being
had it been swallowed, but, owing probably
to ignorance, was so largely in excess of IL
1fmatm dose that the intent of the person who
prepared the flowers would have been defeat
cd by emetics. Mr.. Corkhill says that he is
irving to discover who poisoned the flowers,
and then, If the person can DO discovered, he
win beheld to answer the chargs:1;
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When some one, standing by tn
natural bridge in Virginia, expressed a
doubt about George Washington's re-
ported feat of throwing a silver dollar
completely over it, Secretary Eyarts
who was present gravely rebuked him,
saying, "You forget how much further
a dollar went in those days.
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FOR THE LADIES.
News nnI Notes for Women.


The attcndanccof young Ladies' at the
Harvard Annex promises to be greatly
increased this year.
Mrs. Harriet BuShnellha a %bequeathed
eight thousand dollars, her whole es-
tate, to the poor widows of Lincoln,
III.
The Society of Arts at Geneva, at its
annual meeting. has resolved that, in
future, ladies may he admitted is mem
bers of the society.
\ pretty girl of eighteen, neat in
dress and pulitrin manner, is Il boot
black in Galveston. She has Il chair at
a street corner, and makes s. to St Il
day.
Miss Louise 5. Baker has supplied
the pulpit of the Congregational church
at Nantucket for two seasons. She
left Il lucrative position us teacher to
engage in this work.
The lady newspaper correspondents
who make Washington their fruitful
field of operations have organized Il
press club and will cndeavor to have
galleries in the Senate and House set
apart for their special uSc.
Mesdames Clotilde II. Wendell and
Nancy ID. Taylor, of Atchison, Kansas,
have Just received letters patent for
a valuable Improvement in tag-fasten-
ers. 1t is considered by merchants
and others the best they have seen.
New Orleans is to have the honor of
being the first city in the Union to
erect a monument to Il woman. The
person to he thus honorcd is Margaret
IIougherv. the recently deceased bene-
factrcSs Of the orphan asylums OF That
city.
Mrs. Richards. who has been in Wis
cOnSin organizing woman suffrage
clubs, says that her greatest opposition
comes from young unmarried women
who imagine that men will not like
them so well if they advocate the
woman suffrage cauSe
Miss Emma l.. Crabtrec of Lynn,
Mass, has been dcvoting herself for a
series of years tothe study of electricity
and kindred subjects and, as an cleo
~trician, has already shown superior,
knowledge and ability. She has devised
and perfected various pieces of scientific
apparatus and has manifested great
mechanical ingenuity in this direction.
She is d graduate Of Salem Normal
school.
The publishers of a German novel
scored Il hit recently in the line Of adj
vcrtising. They had inserted in most
of the papers Il notice stating that a
certain noblcmm of means, anxious to
obtain Il wife. wanted n who re-
semlled the description of the heroine
in the novel named. OF course every
marriageable woman who saw this an
nounccment bought the novel to see
how much $ll" rcscmbled the imaginary
beauty referred to.
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To MI. J. ". Graham, Druggist:
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In three days the cough almost disappeared. Now
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