Florida's Famous Saurian

Every lake tliat I s;uv in fcioutli Florida Urge enougfa bad its laruily of alligators. Near the setUements where thej are frequently shot at thej disappeaj al ihe approach of marr. They vi.jit each other froin lake to lake. W1kjü ;i man, womau ov eliild overtakes one in the woods the beast rarri ii! the nearest water. If hemmed, iie ütops, Bwella aud blowj like a. ruad duIJ. Tliey handlo their tails rigbt iyely in resiating au eneui.', pr flipping i nog ój dog into their grear, moufchs. remeruber asking what they eat. 'Aoything from pine knot down, " .i.. answer, as if u pine knot was heir highest food. When stomto!i:, areopened they are found to conain piue krioiu and black mui from he bottoms of th'j ïtsj. iil" rioridians do iiot think the tors oangerous. jjoys go mto tne lakeii swimming where the alligator lives and ave not disturbed. One twelve feet long is eousidered grown. Down in the Kissimee riverthey grow to unenonuous size, haviug been seen eighteen feet long. Thos(-; QniD are uut accustomed to man, 1 am told, are dangerous. 1 heard of a young man tlnit was bitten while swimming in the Kissimee aud soon died. Tbeir teeth oecupy u prominent place in Florida jewelry. Some people eat tbeir tails. Just before a rain they are heard to bello w somewhat likoa youug ealf. At night they frequently make a great splashing in the water.- Jacksonville Letter. A Germán ehemist has made an analysis of the salts that are dissolved in ;he waters of the Dead Sea. The result leaves hardly a doubt in his mind ;hat the lake, traversed as it is by the Jordán, and fed chiefly by it, owes its peculiar water to a rock-salt bed, and in ;he first instance, to the upper layers, whicn contain much magnesia.