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Bravo,robin redbreast ! with the shining wing, Let tee note exulant, load and louder ring ! Till the woodlands echo with the glad refrain, And the soft wind murmur, spring has come again ! Leafy buds are swelling, with the swelling song; Unbound brooks are laughing, as they dance along; fender blossoms springing from the brown earth bare— Life and joy and gladness waking everywhere! Ever new the glory that the years repeat, eature's great heart throbbing, all about 7inr feet! silt and valley springing. into tender green, Pouched with life and beauty by the Power Unseen: Eiope of joy eternal singing in each breast, &li the pain and passion lulled to quiet rest! Everywhere here the promise, speaking clear to men, )eath is life immortaL We shall live again! Sing on, robin redbreast, with the shining wing, end tee air triumphant, that befits a king! rrom the topmost branches, free the glad, proud song, eife, and joy, and gladness, to the spring be- long! The Domestic Tyrant. The normal idea of a domestic tyrant is of :ourse some coarse -minded, brutally dispos- ei husband who scattered his household be - 'ore him as chaff is scattered by the wind. Oppressive as a husband, he is also jealous. Before such a man as this the children are oroken-spirited and cowed ; the servants ay to obey his smallest wish ; the dogs rush from him; their tails between their legs ; to. the very cabman he is a "harbitary gent ;" to his tenants he is the Black Death in Gerson. His speech in society is like the wring offof minute guns, sharp, peremptory, =graced by preamble or code. Or it may De, when he is a hypocrite as well as a tyrant, his " company manners " are grace. 7u1, soft, gentle, and his flattery is as thick ind slab as butter and honey mixed together. Women are seldom of the latter type. They rarely disguise themselves so well. When a wife has the box seat and holds the reins, the world knows pretty well what the condition of things really is. Despising the man whose place she has usurped, she is at no pains to conceal her contempt. She opposes him sharply ; con- tradicts him flatly ; looks him down at his own table ; and lets both him and the world see that she regards him as a fool not worth - the trouble of conciliating, or the effort in- volved in reasoning with. She interferes with his every action ; forbids him to smoke ; allowances his wine : sends him out or keeps him at home, as she thinks best ; despises his pursuits, and, when she can, takes them from him as she would take their toys from her children. His pet dog she banishes ; his favourite books she puts away ; if he is fond of gar- dening, she digs up and turns over his flower -beds for a tennis ground ; if he is an adept at tennis, she breaks up the court to make a rose -garden. Her tyranny is like a Nasmyth hammer, and finds nothing too Iarge or too small for its manipulation. The whole family suffers equally with the unfortunate husband. Wherever she ap- pears she brings with her both tyranny and interference. Her children are trained and managed till they have not a spark of natur- alness or spontaneity left in them. In whatever they are doing, she must interfere and ordain. At croquet she tells them where I o send the ball ; at tennis she makes them nervous by shouting out unfriendly commentaries on their play ; at the piano she objects to their fingering, and wishes to alter their light and shade ; at the easel she bids them scumble up the whole picture as it stands and begin it anew on her lines. She is always changing her servants, with whose work and methods she interferes till they lose their patience—when either they arc impertinent and so discharged on the spot, or disheartened and discharge them- selves. She is the scourge of the fainily quite as much as that more brutal natured man. He is the hornet and she the wasp— he is the bluebottle and she is the housefly ; and there is not a pin's point to choose be- tween them. Each is detestibls after the law of his or her kind, and the tyranny of a woman is to the full as ill to bear as the tyranny of a man, and perhaps it is more annoying because more incessant. Besides these twe tyrannies of authority are others which rule the family and make every member impartially miserable. Look at the tyranny of children—haw they take the very life out of a gentle mother? Their tempers, their demands, their wishes, their dislikes, all rule the order, the common life of the house, and everything and every per- son must give way to them. Sometimes one sees this kind of thing with a widowed mother, over whom her children attempt to exert supreme authority. So ceaseless their demands, and so unsleeping their jealous activities, she leads among them the life of the traditional toad under the harrow ; and she has been known to marry the man who loved her—but she not loving him—to es- cape from the bondage of her eldestds.ughter. Tyranny is hateful at all times and in all circumstances ; but the tyranny of the young brings with it a bitter taste of mock- ery and unfitness ; and the sense of more than ordinary topsyturveydom associated with it gives it a grim grotesqueness that is half its unpleasantness.— Easter Costumes. Fawn -coloured wool dresses with black .And yellow acsessories are newer and more stylish than the gray and tan wools so long in favour, Navy blue is also revived, and ' is as often heightened by yellow combina- tions as by the use of bright red. Exclusive modistes have imported street dresses of fawn wool dotted with black, mrde with a jacket corsage that has three Norfolk box pleats down the back, belted there by ,lack satin ribbon tied in the middle with up- right loops and long sash ends. The open fronts are straight, and do not quite meet, yet here large buttons and button -holes. A deep round collar is bound with black ribbon, and the mutton -leg sleeves are similarly edged. The very wide bell skirt has a narrow gored front breadth, with two tiny black satin piping cords down each seam. Two small yet-distinet box pleats hold the -slight fulness in the back, and the skirt is attached to a black satin corselet which is whaleboned to a point half -way up the back, then tapered along the sides to a Friend--" What queerlanguage your small chow in front, leaving the waist per- husband uses. He ',pronounces every word fectly round. Two • yellow China . silk , half a dozen different ways. blouses accompany this jacket end skirt Wjf " Yes, he has half a dozen differ - ode Q.01/ speckled with black, the other elle diel -emanate reln with pencilled stripes of black more than an inch apart. They are shirred to the neck in front and back, and have a drawing -string around the waist. A pointed shield -shaped piece on the front is shirred down through the middle, and is needle -worked in black silk in scallops on each edge The turned - down collar and cafe are also scalloped with black. Navy blue crepon with snow -flake. of white, and ribbed crosswise, is one of the novelties for spring dresses. It is made to give a prineesse effect, yet the waist is full, and is girdled with black satin ribbon to hide"the joining of the skirt. This girdle is in wide folds even around the lower edge, and pointed up in Swiss fashion in the back, the fulness of the bell skirt being gathered each side of the sloped back seam and strapped on to the satin. White chiffon is accordion -pleated as a long plastron, and hooked to the left under the girdle. A col- lar of white Irish point curves low like a yoke. The immense sleeves droop at the top, and are simply turned back an inch from the wrist and faced with black satin. A navy blue serge dress has the popular yel- low shade for a Mikado blouse of India silk with Iarge blue designs on the pale yellow ground, the whole in accordion pleats that begin at the _back of the neck, then are drawn forward under the arms, and cross the fronts below a square yoke of navy blue satin. A jabot of the broadest sash ribbon of the same blue shade is pleated in three clusters at the top, then the ribbon passes. plainly to the waist line and ends in two choux. Over this is worn a serge jacket, as short as an Eton jacket, fitted by a seam down the back, and trimmed on the front edges with three -cornered revers of the serge corded with the yellow silk, and also with the deep blue satin. The sleeves are gigot -shaped, and the bell skirt has a wide border of blue satin ribbon piped with yel- low and blue cords. A fawn vigogne dress with Eton jacket fronts has the coat back belted with black Satin ribbons with sash ends. Great variety of color is given to the front of this dress, as the jacket has revers of violet velvet opening on a gathered vest of green velvet widely girdled with black satin ribbon, while a cravat of ecru Mechlin ]ace falls from the black ribbon collar. Remember the Family Anniversaries. As a people we pay far too little atten- tion to birthdays and other tamily anniver- saries. Too much cannot be done to make home attractive, so that our boys and girls will prefer it to all other places. "This has been the nicest day I ever knew," said 3 boy to his mother one even- ing. "The birds have all been singing, and the sun has shone every minute, and every- thing laaff very-thinghas been so lovely, just for your birth- day, mamma, and I am so glad!" and he em- phasized his gladness with a hearty hug and kiss. For weeks the boy had been looking forward to this day, planning and making a little birthday gift as a surprise, and when the time came his whole mind. was given to making his mother happy. "But its so much trouble to celebrate birthdays," complain some mothers, "and in large families they come so often." Yes, it is some trouble, but how can we keep our children contented and happy at home without taking trouble ? And no mother regrets the trouble when she sees her children regarding their home as the very best place in the whole world. Try to celebrate the birthdays one year, and see if it does not "pay" in the enjoyment of the whole family. Let no one be forgotten from father to baby, and try to have each one in- terested in all the others, planning, if pos- sible, some little birthday gift. Nomatter how simple or trifling it may be the love and thoughtfulness whichgo with it will make it precious. A Physician's Opinion About Corsets. A physician said : " With some women I am told the main object of wearing a corset is that they shall have fine busts, but as a matter of fact corset wearing is accountable for the lack of development that one sees in many young women of the day. Were they to throw away their corsets they would find that in a short time the longed for develop- ment would come, and unless they were un- commonly lean or in poor health they would not have so very long to wait either. In all the photographs of wild women that one sees, whether they are Sioux, Sumatrans or South Sea Islanders, one observesathat a lack of bast development is the exception and not the rule. Nature is nature every time, and natural woman is healthy woman ander ordinary circumstances and condi- tions. I may state that it is not always well to be too precipitate in this matter of throwing aside the corset. " The best way for a woman to ridherself of corsets is to first loosen them up and wear them that way for afew weeks. This will in itself give her great freedom and will pre- pare her for the greater comfort which she r8 sure to enjoy later when she shall have finally cast off her tightly buckled shield and made of herself a wholly free woman. .Then let the strings be let out still further and further, until the ribs of the corsets give actually no support to the back, when they may be discarded. Iu this particular, you will see, there is tic exception to the rule that radical and extreme measures suddenly applied often result disastrously. It is bet- ter to take the reform in hand with a deter- mination not to pursue it too hastily. " Yes, I have no objection to what are known as `waists.' They are all well enugh, if the women must wear something to keep them in shape, as they call it. There is a great deal of difference between the reeds and bamboos in the ' waists' and the steel and whalebone of the corsets. Compar- ed with the corsets they are, indeed, quite harmless." Three Doves. -Seaward, at morn, my doves flew free; At eve they circled back to me, The first was Faith ; the second Hope ; The third—the whitest—Charity. Above the plunging surge's play Dream-like they hovered, day by day, At Iase-they turned, and bore to me Green signs of peace through nightfall gray, No shore forlorn, no loveliest land Their gefitle eyes had left unscanned, 'Mid hues of twilight heliotrope Or daybreak fires by heaven -breath fanned. Quick visions of celestial grace Hither they waft, from earth's broad space, Sind thoughts for all humanity. They shine with radiance from God's face. Ah, since my heart they choose for home, Why loose them—forth again to roam ? Yet look ; they rise! With loftier scope They wheel in flight towards heavens pure done. -- Fly, messengers that find norest • Save in uch toil as makes man blest! Your home is God's immensity; We hold yon but at his behest. —{George ParsonsLathrop. The Dictionary Habit. O1=1IEi INLAND ON A WAVE - A Steamer that Stands High and Dry Over Two Miles From the Coast. Tourists that visit Batavia nowadays aie quite out of the fashion if they fail to make the passarge through Sunda Strait and see all that is left of Krakatau and the vestiges of the ruin wrought by the terrible eruption ot 1883. If they push up the Bey of Lain- pong, on the Snrrabra side of the channel, they are likely to land: on the low shores oc- cupied by the village of Telokh=Betong, and hire carts for a short jaunt into the inter- ior ; and when they have gone about two miles they will pause to take he the curious scene presented in this picture ; for here is seen, one of the most interesting results of the great wave of Kr akata•r. There was just one man amid. all that wild scene of death and devastation who was not overwhelmed in the common ruin. He es- caped while 40,000 perished. He was the lighthouse keeper,who lived alone on an iso- lated solated rock in the strait. It was broad day- light when 11 rakataa burst asunder, but in a few moments the heavens were so densely shrouded by dust, mud, and smoke that the darkness of midnight covered all the chan- nel. The guardian of the lighthouse was in the lantern 130 feet above the sea levet. Here he remained safe and sound in the midst of the terrible commotion. . He felt the trembling of his lighthouse, but it was so dark that he could not see the threatened danger. He did not know that a tremendous wave hadalmostoverwhelmed the lighthouse, and that its crest had near- ly touched the base of the lantern. He did not hear it because he was deafened by the awful detonation of Krakatau. In a few moments the wave, over a hun- dred feet in height, had swept along a coast line of 100 miles on both sides of the chan- nel. Scores of populous villages were buried deep beneath the avalanche of water. Great groves of cocoanut palms were levelled to the ground. Promontories were carried away. New bays were dug out of ,the yielding littoral. Every work of human hands except that lighthouse was destroyed and 40,000 persons perished in the deluge that mounted from the` sea or beneath the rain of mud that filled theheavens. This is a picture of a little sidewheel steam -boat that was borne on the top of that wave through forests and jungle, over two miles into the country, and was left as the wa ee receded in the position here shown. It will be remembered that for weeks before the final cataclysm at Krakatau, the vol- cano was in a state of eruption. Pleasure parties were made up at Batavia to visit the volcano. Not a few people landed on the island,little dreaming that in the twink- ling of an eye two-thirds of it was to be blown into the air as though shot from a gun. They wished to get as near tie they thought they might safely venture to the growling crater. This little steamboat, on the day before the explosion, carried one of these parties to the island. There were only twenty on board besides the crew. They spent a couple of hours around the island,and then steamed up the deep and narrow bay of Lampong, and it is supposed they anchor- ed for the night in front of the big town of Telokh-Betong,which was one of the largest settlements on the south coast of Sumatra. The ill-fated pleasure party was never heard of again. It is supposed that the boat was turned over and over like an egg shell in the surf. It had every appearance of such rough usage when it was found some months later. The machinery and furni- ture were badly broken, and were strewn about in the greatest confusion. But the vessel held together, and was finally set down in good shape, erect on her keel, as she is seen in the picture, which was made from a drawing by Mr. Korthals, a member of the Dutch scientific party sent out to study the effect of the Krakatau eruption. Only two bodies were found in the vessel. They were, of course, below deck. As it was morning when she was picked' up by the wave, it is supposed that nearly every- body was on shore. Not a vestige remains of the villages that lined the water edge. But the hulk of this little boat still stands, battered and broken, though as erect as when she ploughed the channel, and she is the most curious and interesting eerie of the greatest volcanic eruption of modern tunes, - New Pin -Cushions. The pretty pin -cushions bearing the name "These are the Mice that Eat the Malt," consist of a plush tray with a couple of sacks made of plush and tied with ribbon; stand- ing upright and ready for pins. The mice are to be seen on the plush tray. The "pigs in clover" take the form of a plush sham - reek. the centre petal hooded so that the pigs find a sty. A couple of sacks occupy other spaces. The small bamboo huts used for table decoration are made into pin -cush- ions, being- stuffed and covered with plush mid ribbons. Another kind is a chiffonier's basket on a wicker easel, and another is set in a basket placed on a lyre. Out of Repair, Mr. Peterby—I'II have to send Molly's shoes to the shoemaker. Mrs. Feterby-Are they very much out of repair ? It seems to me she is getting new shoes every week. " I should say they were out of repair. There is such a big hole in the sole of one of her shoes that she loses her stocking through it." Money Saved. Little Wife--" I saved thirty dollars to- day." Loving Husband —" You're an angel. How ?" Little Wife—" I saw a perfectly lovely easy -chair that I know you'd like, and I didn't buy it" A writer in an English paper has written of racing bicycling men on a last lap riding at a pace of 30 miles an hour. The first impulse of many readers, doubtless, was to express astonishment anti doubt, and yet records prove beyond question that at times: men ride at an even greater rate of speed. Four times, in 1891, a quarter was ridden in 29 4-5 seconds, or at the rate of about 30 miles 360 yards an hour. It is fair to presume that'll' neither case was the entire quarter ridden at top speed, and it there- fore %comes evident that at some point of the journey the riders must have consider- ably exceeded the speed mentioned. Discarded Responsibility. , Magistrate—" What, you here again, Slattery? This must be the twentieth time fou''ve been up before me." Slattery—" Well F yer worship, 'tis no fault of mine that ye don't get promotion." Colors cannot be sensible to heat and cold and yet we sometimes'see"lavender pants' in the papers. - - A NIGHT OF HORROR. The Young Man gad Seventeesip Snakes for Bedfellows. -"It was a rather gruesome experience which caused my hair to whiten in this man- ner,"eatd a rather youthful traveller to the group who sat about him in the smoking - car, and who had noticed his young face and snowy locks. "Two years ago," he continued, "my eld- est brother, who had been on a tour around the world, came home. Ever since his fif- teenth year he has beenabsolutely crazy on the subject of botanical" and chemical pur- suits. In spite of all that my father could say to the contrary, he made a special study of toxicology, diving into volumes of old manuscripts relating to the time of the Bor- gias, and snaking all sorts of experiments re- lative to the poison's which can be extracted from the vegetable and animal worlds. His long travels had, in fact, no other purpose that to enlarge his knowledge in this branch of science. Much to our disgust he brought back with him from the island of Sumatra a large glass case containing some remarkably poisonous specimens of snakes, for the pur- pose of studying and analyzing their venom when once more in the leboratory which he had caused to be built next to his room. " I have always had a horror of snakes and although I do not think that I am a coward, I felt an absolute dread of the writhing coil of reptiles which Yves insisted on keeping in his dressing -room, inclosed in their prison of glass. On the second night after my brother's return I went to bed very late. It was a cold November night and the wind swept in icy gusts around the old place. Everybody was asleep, and when I. lay down there was not a sound save the crackling of the logs on the broad hearth. Thoroughly exhausted, and lulled -by the low moaning of the sea at the foot of the cliffs far below my windows, I dropped to sleep at once. _ " I must have slept about an hour when I was awakened by an incomprehensible feeling of anguish. Cold perspiration stood on my face and I experienced great diffi euity in breathing. Dazed and surprised, I looked around me, but the fire had- almost completely died out, and the dim, rosy light from the smouldering embers was not strong enough to allow me to dis- tinguish anything clearly. In my hurry to get to bed I had forgotten to place matches within niy reach, so that I was unable co light .iny little night -lamp. I was just trying to reason myself into going to sleep again when a very slight rustle at- tracted my attention and made me shudder from head to foot. "It was so slight that none but ears sharpened by fear could have perceived it, and yet there was a soft, silky, gliding, un- dulating motion of something invisible gra- dually and steadily approaching my bed. I lay there incapable of moving, straining every nerve in my effort to realize what that sound could be, but the beating of my pulses was so loud that I could less and less distin- guish whence it carne. Suddenly my heart died within me, for a cold, clammy, wrig- gling object had touched my hand, where it lay on the outside of the coverlet. In that truly awful minute the full horror of the situation flashed upon me— the box contain- ing my brother's snakes had been left open ! Attracted by the,warmth, the monsters had glided in through the dressing room door and were taking refuge from the cold in my bed. In spite of my well-nigh crazed state of mind I thoroughly realized that my only chance of escape from immediate death lay in absolute stillness. One motion of hand or foot and the startled reptiles would make an end of me. " Can you imagine, gentlemen, what it is to be morbidly afraid of snakes anal to have to lie there motionless while seventeen— yes, seventeen—hideous, writhing, nauseous serpents creep one after another into your bed and nestle against you in their search for warmth and comfort ? Great heavens ! when I think of it I once more experience the feeling of frenzied terror and appalling loathing which came sd near killing me that night. And still I dared not so mach as breathe, for I well knew that one bite of the poisonous fangs which surrounded me on all sides now would be immediate de- struction. My brother had told me only that evening that these were the rrostdead- ly kind of snakes known to the natives of Sumatra. I would have braved all this, however, so intolerable was my anguish, to escape from the diabolical contact of those long, ropelike coils which came closer and closer to me,° But I was conscious that even had they been removed I would have been incapable of stirring. I was paralyzed by some magnetic power, or perhaps by fear alone. "I heard the clock ticking monotonously on my desk, I Iistened to every sob of the waves against the rocky beach and: to the fast rising wind as it shook the windows. But all these sounds were dull in my ear, as if heard from a far -away grave where I was entombed alive. The minutes dragged along like hours, and the hours like days. Several times I clenched my teeth convul- sively to smother a cry of agony which was almost wrung from pie by a motion of one of my awful bedfellows , there would have been as much danger in screaming as in moving ever so slightly. What hopes had I, anyhow, of making myself heard ? My own and my brother's apartments were secluded from the rest of the house "+y a long picture gallery, and between his and my rooms were two immense dressing -rooms opening into one another. Moreot'Er, Yves, who had suf- fered from marsh fevers during his visit to the tropics, was in the habit of taking chloral every night to combat the terrible headaches and sleeplessness which were the outcome of his illness. He was no doubt then under the effect of the opiate and `would not have heard the booming of a cannon. " Slowly, miserably slowly, the time dragged on its weary course. Towards day- break I think I must have swooned away, for I certainly lost all consciousness of my frightful situation. When I once more awoke to the sense thereof I could see that the sun had risen. The room seemed ghast- ly to me in the dim light. I glanced on the bed, but no, there was no snake to be seen. They had all crept under the coverings, where they lay coiled against my body, pro- bably enjoying their comfortable nest. "Again minutes grew into hours of inde- scribable slowness and suffering. I could now hear the servants moving about and the horses being Ied out for exercise in the pad- docks. The dressing bell sounded and then I grew desperate. Was T going to be left to die here, within'a hundred yards of my family ? It seemed to me as if I were dead already. A feeling of complete numbness pervaded my whole body and an icy grasp was about my brain and heart. I felt my- self fainting again. "Suddenly the door was pushed open and my brother walked up to my bedside. W ith a hoarse, terrified cry he recoiled a few steps. Collecting all my remaining reason, I whispered one word, ' Milk.' For a sec- ond hegazed distraughtly at me ; then com- prehending what had happened, he rushed frantically from the room. When he re - turned he was carrying a wide bowl full of milk, which he placed on the carpet beside my bed. I cannot describe in detail how, one by one, the snakes turned and twisted and glided out of my bed to the flogo%� where their favorite food was tempting Mem. I counted them, and when the seventeenth had left my side, as if released from a spell, I uttered a loud, ringing cry, which ended in a fit of violent hysterics. " For weeks afterwards I raved and strug- gled in the throes of brain fever. As for my brother, he very nearly went insane, and to this day he cannot bear to talk of that morning when, on entering my room, he found me lying on myy bad like a corpse, with a face transfixed by an expression of unearthly horror, and with my hair turned in one night as white as the driven snow.' i 1,500 SLAVES RELEASED. Two Portuguese Travellers Happen Along in Tinte to Spoil a Maxie Raid. Two Portuguese travellers, Messrs. Car- niago and Elbo, have recently brought a large force of slave hunters to grief near the north -end of Lake Tanganyika. These trav- ellers arrived on the northeast shore ot the lake early this year. The Sun has already told how this region was being depopulated by the raids of powerful slave hunters. The Portuguese visitors learned on their arrival that the notorious slaver, Makutuba, ted gone with a large number of boats to Mugo, where, on the following day, the weekly market was to be held. It was expected that many hundreds of people would gather from all the country round for the exchange of their products, and the purpose of the slave raider was to attack the market when at its height and capture a great number of the people. The Portuguese at once decided to follow with their caravan. They happened to have plenty of ammunition and a fine lot of guns. They had no sooner arrived in the neighbor- hood of Mugo than they had heard that the village had been attacked, that many people had been killed, and that Makutuba was -embarking his captured victims, numbering 1,500, mostly women into canoes for the purpose of carrying them south along the lake. The Portuguese advanced after preparing their canoes for a fight. The slave hunters at first offered resistance, but a grenade that was fired over theirheads produced such a panic among Makutuba's men that they took to their heels and rushed to their boats without troubling themselves about their Ieader. or the booty they had secured. The Portuguese fired several volleys into the crowded boats. Many of the slave raiders tried to save themselves by leaping into the Jake and swimming to the shore. The peo- ple of the town, however, had gained cour- age by the arrival of their white allies. They gave the slave raiders a warm recep- tion, and scarcely any of them escaped alive. The Portuguese released the captives, who returned in great joy to their homes. Sharks in a Ladies' Swimming Bath. Australian mail news brings intelligence from Melbourne of a thrilling adventure be- tween two large sharks and some ladies and children bathers at the Men tone ladies' baths there. There were a number of ladies and children in the baths, among them being Mrs. Percy Macmeikan, Mrs. Ffrench, and their two little girls. Mrs. Percy Macmeikan was the first to vent -ire into the water, tak- ing her her little girl Roy and Mrs. Ffrench's daughter. The bathers went out as far as the rope which stretches across the open area. There they dived and swam, and the children frolicked in glee. Mrs. Macmeikan saw the little girls safely swimming upon the rope in three feet of water, and then went into deeper par ts° At this stage Mrs. Ffrench's little boy, who was not bathing, noticed a large shark rapidly approaching the party, and immediately told Mrs. Dur- rant. The boy then called out to Mrs. Macmeikan that there was a shark in the water. She glanced around and with horror saw a shark turning over within a foot of her. She kicked and splashed and nearly fainted away. The shark made for the children, going between the rope and the shore. Mrs. Macmeikan speedily recovered her presence of mind, and darted to the res- cue of the children. tQuickly securing Roy, this brave lady placed the child in about one foot of water. Then she turned to secure Mrs. Ffrench's child. She was just in time to effect the rescue. As she grasped the little one, and was making for the shore, the shark, with a big companion, Made a dash. The undaunted woman suc- ceeded in frightening the monsters away, and safely bore the children from all danger. Mrs. Macmeikan was much exhausted after her terrible adventure. The battle between life and death was most exciting, and the two ladies fainted. The sharks were fine specimens, the largest one being 12 feet in length and the other about 6 feet. The pair had effected an entrance into the baths through some broken pickets. Some men were subse t:ueu:ly called in and succeeded in killing the smaller shark. The big one managed to get away into the open sea. The men stuck a boat hook into him six times. The shark darted through the hole and near- ly smashed the hook, the jerk precipitating one of the harpooners into the water. Which Should He Marry ? Said the youthful Fred to his Uncle Harry, "I've really made .p my mind to marry, But cannot decide if it is better That love or lucre shall forget the fetter." " Ah ! wedlock bringeth us joy and sorrow: We smile to -day and we weep to morrow; And, Fred, there'll always be stormy weather Where two are unequally yoked together." " Well, here's the case,' said Fred, with emotion " I'� e given to Clara my heart's devotion ; But se' he has no - money, and, Uncle Harry, You know 't would-be folly for us to marry ?" " Well—I—don't know," said the other turning, His gaze toward the youth, "since the fire is burning, I've a word of the to give you, which is, Marry for love and work for riches." " Bu t Grace, you see," said the anxious Freddy " Has a nice litt'.e housekeeping fundalready, And will help along with a contribution To steer from the straits of destitution. When money is scarce. and the wife is ailing, I tellnd to youbear, uncleup, its under not plaintimesailing;'schanges and A chances Is easy, if easy our circumstances," "Stop! stop!" with -a frown. said Uncle Harry " The girl that you love is the girl to marry ! And if she's true, shell not think it cruel To live for a while on water gruel. Shell comfort you in the time of trial; She'll whisper naught of her self-denial ; And cheerfully take the needed stitches— Who marries for love, and not for riches !" Do tthink for a moment, Fred, 'tis better To bind the heart with a golden fetter; Though many do it, yet many rue it, And love is a tearful witness to it ! There isn't a chance for pleasant weather Where two are unequally yokedtogether; So turn your back when money bewitches Marry for love and work for riches. There is only a, distinction without a dif- ference between an auburn -haired sweet- heart and a red -beaded wife. / SIMITLATING D,EATR. Remarkable Phenomena Seen i& Seine Animals. The remarkable condition, involving a suspension of all the faculties, which it sometimes induced Ware= by inhalation of poisonous gases, a blow en the head, a stroke of lightning, etc., is a normal condition gf periodic occurrence among many of the lower animals. In fact, this suspension of organic activity enables inauy creatures to tide over conditions which would otherwise be fatal to them. For every class of living creature there a t:pecific temperature best suited to i well-being, and a minimum and Maximo temperature to either of which it saccumbs but if the temperature only approach th extremes, its activities are arrested, and sinks into a state of twiner simulat° death. Every year, on the advent of winter, w the food supply is inadequate to the main tenance of the necessary warmth, those ani mats which do not migrate, or put on warmer coat, or whose food supply is ins ficient, seek some suitable retreat whe they roll themselves as nearly as possibi into a ball, and resign themselves to a sus pension of all their faculties. They lie in sort of deep sleep, perfectly motionless, an breathing, almost imperceptibly, at long in ter vale, until the warmth of returnin spring rouses them from their long sleep How does this save them from death? Th answer is not far to seek. Respiration is a essential condition of the life of all ani mals. We can live only so long we are in a condition to inhale th indispensible oxygen. It is the function the oxygen inhaled into the system to en ter into unstable combinations with th waste products of combustion, to conver the°chyle into blood, and to cause com bustion of the carbohydrates of th food for the generation of the neves nary animal warmth. When no food is taken, the oxygen attacks the accumulat- ed fat and muscular tissue in the system, producing a measure of heat by its combus- tion, and maintaining the process of respir- ation—(that is, the inhalation of fresh oxy- gen, and th e exhalation of carbonic acid}, and consequently of life. An animal expos- ed to hunger and cold while his faculties are in full activity would perish in a few days. But the condition of hybernation the functions of its organs being reduced to a minimum, the slow combustion of its ac- cumulated store of fat and muscle, with a greatly reduced rate of respiration, serves to keep the animal alive until the return of pring renews the conditions of vital activ- ty, This hybernating habit is common to the ear, and to squirrels and numerous small mammals; nearly all reptiles and batrachians indulge in it, retreating into hollow trees, nto holes in the earth, into mud, etc., and ailing into a state of torpor which lasts for onths. The great majority of insects grist during winter ; but some of them, nd especially the females, conceal them - elves under moss -bark, in the earth, etc., nd survive. Leeches and rainworms also leep through the winter. If this winter sleep endures too long, as occurs sometimes in long, Severe winters, or if the previous summer was unfavorable, and the animals went into winter quarters in poor condition, the sleepers awake no more, but pass from a state of torpor to cne of actual death. It is, perhaps, not so well known that animals indulge in summer sleep also. Great heat induces weariness, followed by a suspension of the life activities. This state of summer dormancy is as regular in hot countries as the winter sleep in cold countries. When the streanis cease to flow, and the pools dry up one after the other, the animals retreat into their holes and sleep torpidly until the rainy season. It must not be supposed either that summer sleep is indulged in in the tropics only. I have many times observed, in this country, that when small pools dry up in summer, the water lizards, frogs, toads, etc°, bury themselves in the mud, and sleep until the nett rain wakes them to fresh life. Among mammalia, the tanrek of Madagascar in- dulges in summer sleep. This arrest of the vital functions, this simulation of death, is most remarkably illustrated on the lowest planes of life—the tardigrades or water bears, for example, and some thread -worms, will remain dor- mant for want of moisture, for months or even years. Who would believe that water animalcules exist in dry dust ! Yet so it is. Their functions are suspended, but with the first rainfall they awaken to new life. is ts rn the it mg hen uf re e a d g • i as e o e ti a e b i f m P a s a s The Black Death. The beginnings of the black death arose in China about the year 1333 with drought and famine in the creat river plains, whict were followed by floods so violent that 400,- 000 people perished. Great telluric con- vulsions occurred over the same tracts. The mountain Tsincheoufell in and vast clefts were formed, from which it is said that noxious vapors ascended. .Anyhow, flood and famine were followed next year by a terrible plague, which carried off 5,000,000 of the wretched Chinese, while in 1337 a still more dreadful famine destroyed another 4,000,000. The destructive march of the pestilence can not now be accurately traced ; but it swept along from east to west, slowly enough, but withinexorable wing. Ru- mors of trou'•le and disaster heralded its approach. A thick, sinking mist was re- ported to herald or accompany the march of the fell destroyer. Nor were there want- ing signs and wonders in the sky, and a grand conjunction of the three superior planets, Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars, in the sign of Aquarius, 24th March, 1345, might have been read by those acquainted with the secrets of the stars as portentous of un- heard-of disasters. That the infection was conveyed in the air and spread -itself with the varied tides and currents of the aerial ocean seems evi- dent, for it fell upon ships at sea and ravag- ed the most secluded places, but it was also extremely contagious and followed the lines of trade routes, and seized upon every artery of traffic. In England the black death made its first appearance in Dorset - shire, and, quickly spreading over the Westt it reached London by way of Oxford, Ieav< ing death and desolation behind every where. It was as fatal in the country as in the town. Whole villages were depopulat- ed and small towns almost wiped out of ex- istence. The dead lay unburied as they had died, for priests had been swept away with their flocks, and in nxi,uy parishes there was o one left to celebrate masa while every trade and craft was suspandea in the uni- versal terror and suspense. To add to the horror of the times ba -i of murderers roamed about unmolested, robbing alike the dead and the living; and dogs, depriv- ed of their masters by t'eatli, lame together in peeks, made ferocleus by .lunger, and. scoured the country WO- so noway bands oft wofve9. 1 el