Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1886 — Herr Hager’s Game. [ARTICLE]

Herr Hager’s Game.

Dynamiting is a game that can be worked both ways. Herr Hager, the wealthy German banker, is the most punctual man in the world, and always carries a couple of chronometers about with him. Thanks to this habit, he is a frequent victim to pickpockets, as not a week passes without his losing one of his watches. At first he had recourse to all kinds of safety chains; then one fine morning he took no precaution whatever, and quietly allowed himself to be robbed. At night, on returning from business, he took up the evening paper, when he uttered an exclamation of delight, and at once started off for the police station. This is what he had read: “To-day at two o’clock p. m., a violent explosion took place in a house in B Sitreet, occupied by Mr. S—a wealthy towhsman. The hands of the victim are shattered, and the left eye gone.” The crafty banker had filled the watoh case with dynamite, which exploded during the operation of winding. Si nee that time no more watches have been stolen from Herr Hager. Crocodiles are represented by alligators i. Their tails are used for swimming. and their legs aid in lifting them out o/f the mud. They build nests of leaves and vegetation before it has begun to decay; a layer of eggs, a layer of v egetation. The heat of the vegetation hatches the eggs. The crocodile differs from the alligator by having; no long separation between the nostrils. It has a valve in the throat so-r keeping out water. The crocodiles at the Niles and of the Ganges are most dangerous. Alligators aYe called cold-blooded because of their inability to develop heat in their bodies.