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Show An AetvessV Pet. Next to a rattlesnake, probably the most unpleasant of all tha animals ia creation to make a domestic pet of is that owned by Pearl Means. Some months ago a friend in Florida offered her in jest a juvenile alligator, atid Miss Means accepted it. The little saurian was duly forwarded, and has since taken up a large place In its mistress' affections. affec-tions. She attends to all its reptilian wants with great 'solicitude, and it is musing to see the little beast a yellow ribbon hidden eorjiiettishly raand its wrinkled neck wriggling abont in her lap and waggling its scaly tail as she strokes its head. The alligator commends itself for domestic do-mestic adoption by one capital virtue economy. Sncci iBn't a circumstance to its starving abilities. During six months Jhliss Means' pet requires no food, and it sleeps twenty-two honrs out of the twen ty-four. The only inconvenience that can possibly arise will be when the miniature mini-ature leviathan advances in years and develops its natural instincts for human morceaux. A finger may then be snapped snap-ped off the hand that c.tresscs it befor the hand knows where it is. i?ew York j Mirror. |