Show alligators as peculiar customers the keeper of a bird anil act pct animal tore in fulton street said anro some ladies alint purchase nothing but white rats 1 asked one what elio did with them sho blushed a little and said let bliem sleep on her pillow with glicr sho fondled them and taught them little tricks I 1 liiro bad quitu a demand for young alligators recently of the eis curiously enough lire ladies you think tharo was anything particularly likeable in an alligator with a mouth running nearly half tho length of hia body but some ladies think so I 1 havo seen them throw bits of ibcal into an aquarium containing a six inch alligator and as his mouth open and closed on abo delicacy they would baiso their bands and exclaim how perfectly lovely they uc the alligator to boolat and food an alligator looks very comical when about to swallow a fly ho rushes at it with open jaws and brings them so violently together that the water spouts out at each side of the mouth lie gets himself in the most altitudes and is always making unexpected moves A woman came cicro from IIo boken recently and bought a ten inch rop tilo shu also bought two dollars worth of fishes she went away apparently pleased with her several days afterward ho came again and said that all her lishco had myota piously disappeared the night she took them home but that the alligator still rc mainoL sho said she had put them all together in an aquarium of course I 1 told her tho alligator had swallowed the li olies sho 0 my tho nasty thiner and vowed sho would dl it an alligator over four long ia dangerous in an aquarium of those 1 gall arc from florida it likes a long lime moro than two acara sometimes for an brad alligator to grow two inci ica if they acro left to burrow in a muddy pond or a alamp they would grow nearly twice their length in a year froan water to stunt them N Y sun |