Morning journal and courier., 1890-07-11

had produced and summarily dispatch the alligator, a man clad in an oilskin suit brushed past them on his way down from the gallery. The man was a Hercules In build, and looked like the hero of Ouida romance as he leaped over the rails, and, drawing long bladed knife from a sheath hanging at his side, prepared to face the ter- rible monster, which now turned upen him as if aware of his intentions. Every arm seemed parslyzed as the bystanders watched this strange combat between the man in the oiskin and the ferocious saurian. The man now jumped into the water and stood ready with his knife as the enormous amphibian made lunge a. him. Quick ss lightning the man sank beneath the waters of the tank as his terrible adversary rushed upon him, and before he roee to the surface the tank was dyed @ vivid scarlet, whether from the life blood of the man or the alligator was not apparent gill the hero rose to the surface snd waved his hand aloft to show that he was all right.
 A tremendous cheer burst from the sudi- ence, and one of the men tried to get near enough to shoot the alligator, but was afraid 10 fire lest his bullet should hi. the wrong mark. The alligator had evidently got the worst of the fight so far, as he came forward sluggishly enough in the next round snd re- ceived another thrust from his agile foe be- low the belt, which rendered him hors de cOm0hN. IutEe WAS auOfltL uUE UL u4OOQ and the water in the tank changed to vivid crimson, after which a heavy lifeless mass | foated aimlessly upon the surface. IL was | the dead ssuIian. Round after round of sp- plause greeted the fearless hero in the oil | ekin, but his program was not nearly conn pleted yet. SsizIng the trunk of his dead | opponent with one hand, he started In to | carve up his helpless foe with the manner o. | one accustomed to handling such jobs. The II futa nf he fa1 II cutting away a large portion of the soAly
 body underneath, and the intention of tns | brave fellow soon became evident. He wa,
 going to recover what remained of the poo
 little victim whose untimely death had beer
 avenged. \ convulsive sob arose from tn
 spellbound audience. as the rigid little form
 bearing no marks of having been bitten. bu
 very quiet and bloody, was drawn out iron
 the saurian's stomach. A moment later tn
 childish corpse lost its rigidity, and with
 cry of joy the little innocent started up i the arms of her preserver and shouted in | very life-like manner, HMamma, mamma. The lady in the box, just recovered from he faint, came forward and took her darlin |. from the arms of her burly rescuer-th man in the overslls bowed to the audience | reply to their ceaseless applause, snc the
 two or three people rushed and, taking o rings and watches, forced them upon th heroic looking fellow.
 It was not till the tank had been take
 away and the man in the overalls. now cls
 in faultless evening suit, had bowed to tt ! audience once more that the people realize | the fact that the alligator act had been pc } | formed, and that the ferocious looking ssr , risn was only clever imitation in psp' ) msche with mechanical effects. The discor solate mother and the child whom the alligl tor had gobbled sat up and smiled throug ] | the rest of the performance. and those wt
 had been SO spontaneously generous felt as } | their smiles were tiuged with siigl
 | amount of ridicule.