HAMLYN'S MENAGERIE MAGAZINE. 
Half kilogramme of fresh butter 
Half kilogramme of mixed vegetable 
100 kilos of wood 
\ kilo of sea biscuit 
1 tin of sardines 
1 tin of French beans 
1 tin of green peas 
1 candle 
}, kilo of preserved beef 
| kilo black pudding (horse) 
1 cock 
1 raven 
100 litres of coke 
1 sheep's brain 
1 cat 
1 cauliflower 
1 carrot 
1 cabbage 
v kilo of mushrooms 
100 kilos of coal 
Charcoal (per bushel) 
i kilo of chocolate 
I truffled turkey 
1 turkey without truffles 
1 endive 
i kilo of Gruyere cheese 
| kilo of galantine (horse) 
I kilo of olive oil 
I kilo of head (horse) 
Dry beans, per litre 
Ham, 500 grammes 
t kilo of bacon 
L rabbit 
1 hare 
1 turnip 
1 fresh egg 
1 goose 
Onions, per bushel 
1 sparrow 
1 pigeon 
1 hen 
1 chicken 
Hare pie, per \ kilo 
Fowl pie, each 
Beef pie 
1 shallot 
1 leek 
Potatoes (per bushel) 
1 rat 
Rice, per \ kilo 
Horse sausage, per .', kilo 
Beet sausage 
Mule and donkev sausage 
Sugar, per \ kilo 
Dog's flesh, per J, kilo 
Mutton, per \ kilo 
Donkey's flesh, per .', kilo 
Fr. 
c. 
40 
butter 12' 
24 
1 
10 
12 
50 
8 
90 
6 

40 
15 
6 
55 
6 
16 
5 
15 
12 
2 
25 
12 
6 
30 
3 
4 
200 
140 
1 
25 
30 
5 
75 
20 
60 
75 
1 
50 
2 
75 
175 
65 
1 
50 
14 
70 
50 
75 
45 
28 
50 
1 
25 
50 
2 
25 
2 
8 
12 
10 
2 
3 
50 
12 
12 
It is easy to estimate, from this view of it, the 
misery which the City of Paris must have suffered 
during the five months of the siege it had to en- 
dure, besides the mortality has never been so high 
as during this dreadful time. 
Property of the Author. A cook, 
On sale with M. Pikeol, wine merchant, at 
the corner of Rue Montmartre and Rue du Crois- 
sant. 
(A kilogramme is rather more than 21bs. English.) 
N.B. — The national guards were getting 1 
franc 50 centimes as pay per day. 
1740, Paris, Edouard Blot, printer, rue Bleue, 7. 
Exact copy, 
Ch. Scelle. 
I have made no change in this curious docu- 
ment as far as. the text is concerned, except that 
in the original the list is arranged in two columns, 
but one could certainly trace some resemblances 
to present circumstances, and the improvidence 
which existed then certainly still survives, to 
some extent at least, in our days. 
Although Paris is not invested and although 
the raiways can bring to the capital the commodi- 
ties destined for it, there being nothing to impede 
the coming and going of the trains, there are 
some articles which command exaggerated prices 
and that quite unjustifiably. 
It is to be hoped that in these cases the appli- 
cation of the law will prove beneficial in the inter- 
ests of the community. 
Ch. S. 
SOME CURIOUS FACTS ABOUT 
THE GATOR. 
By Felix J. Koch, Cincinnati, L'.S.A. 
Next time you get out on some deep, dank, 
Southern bayou and have a moment or so to spare, 
steal off and away from the beaten paths, — lie 
low and bide your time, — and then study the alli- 
gators. 
Though you may have watched them hap- 
hazardly before, you will find such study one of 
the most interesting in all the world. 
Latterly, in fact, the naturalists have been 
engaged in working out the life-story of these 
'gators and have learned some features of gator- 
existence that are well worth one's lime and while. 
" Your real Southern 'gator," one of these savants 
tells us, "should attain a length of fourteen or fif- 
teen feet, the head should comprise one seventh 
of the entire length, and should be hall' as broad 
at the jaws as it is long. 
"The American alligator, again, appears to 
be more voracious and fiercer than the South 
American species; oft times attacking men and 
quadrupeds while bathing, or crossing the rivers, 
