The Cairo bulletin., 1907-07-21
||JBD STORIES
From new YORK
x0oo THAT ARE WORTH SIX
rHousANp DOLLARS PER
DOZEN.
DRLD's BIGGEST BANK
vvtth Savings Deposits One Hundred
Millions Aiigators Grow
- Maturity Building House
or Glass.

2Vs8SS OF GLASS.
81
n New York, July 19.--W While the Dir
thAtsg1ays the golden eggs has neye
been discovered. something almost a
N valuable turned uD this week at tn
Hionx Zoo, for one of the two rhea'
$ i bird closely resembling the Ostrich
X has Just laid an egg which is valued a
II no less than $500. Of $4,000 a dozen
TINS breaking all records for eg'
prices even when the strictly fresl
product OF the comon hen In winter
u time Is considered. While this egg
\ the flrst that has ever been laid by Z
fhea while In captivity. would doubt
less make a delectable omelette, Y
will not be sold to any millionaire iof
\ his table bur hatched In a specially
cpni.rnated incubator In about six
weeks 1t is hoped there viii be q
y rhea chick added to the curoslties at
the park where things are always pro-
crossing, Ladeed not content with
4 producing such valuable egg the Zoo
etatisticians have also been investi-
gazing alligator life with some sur
prising results. First and foremost
the theory that alllgators require
something like hundred years 70
reach any considerable size has been
exploded. Even in captivity alligators
reach length of twelve feet in nj
teen years. Some unique ana inter
esfing figures on their growth have
been compiled which show that an al.
ligator at the time Of Matching IL
eighteen inches long and at two year
2f inches. from which time II grows
about nine inches a year In ieng h
until it reaches maturity. Basing his
opinion on these figures. Mr.. Ditmars.
the curator OF reptiles believes that
the raising Of alligators for CONNER
cial purposes should prove attractive,
Even though they do get rid OF
more Than 100000 daily for drinks,
and $4,000 ,oeSs fiji various recreatjons'
New Yc4fkers net only great
spenders but acprding % hgures
gr4at savers al lell. and that pos
perity il not corhned to holders Of
isree fortunes Tie deposits for ex-
annie. In the Bovery Savings bank,
lie largest institution Of Its kind in
"a world. have jud reached total OF
1000 .Ooo, an efdence of the fact
~s<sfs ~ metropolis with all
attractions prsr9s in humble Gil
are able to lay by bit
Of money as aley go along New
York State noy has nearly billion
and half In lis savings banks and Is
surpassed onls by one or two OF the
New England states In Its accumn-
lated per capita. There liz every pres
pect, too that the Importance Of the
savings banks will be Increased pr9-
yressively iH the next few years.
Massash Hss6tts has recently passed
egislatioM permitting its savings
hanks to es ahlish departments 81 in
6ustrial life insuraace issuing policies
Of not more than $500 on the lives OF
lis citizens or annuities not exceeding
sloO. The progress of this Bay state
plan. which will be put into operation
neat November will be watched witt;
great interest By savings bank off.
niaIs In the metropolis; for II thee is
INV new wrinkle which can make a
nuay and beaeficient institution still
:.gier and more beneficlent New
usl:c- want to know about it. There
ire. q course. people who say that
he wnrksngman wc1't go to he bank
q get his life insured but that he al
yays must be teased into II by pei
Iuasive life insurance agent. On the |
,ther hand, there are many WHO b.
Ieve that the cover h. c,unier
proposition will rgsve very attractive
O the fhriftser class, who line up with |
ass books after each pay day TO
rave percentage of Their wages
where they know it will he well
andled.
c. Parker Woodbury., who gambcls
nd eambols daily in Wall stree will
,ot under the automatic law throw
nv stones in the future. People who
I've In glass houses should not in
ulge in this pastime according to the
ssing. The sa-ing itself is ancient.
ut SO far as can be discovered II has
cen up to COW without application.
nee nobody really lived in a glass
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