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the small dark dots below each red spot, and the occasional breaks in 

 the lines of the silver-white keel streaks? " 



The perch of the forest rivers include several nest-building vari- 

 eties, and the sportsmen of Kingston, Jamaica, often amuse them- 

 selves with target practice at a species of rock fish that come clear out 

 of the water and bask, like coots, on the harbor cliffs. 



With every mile farther south the number and variety of the 

 finned aborigines become more infinite, and the fishermen of the 

 estuary of San Juan de Porto Rico alone catch pompanos, mullets, 

 cavalli, red snappers, chiquillos (a kind of sardelles), sea bass, dorados, 

 skip- jack, angelfish, skate, ray, sheepshead, garfish, torpedo-fish, devil- 

 fish or giant ray, cobia, hogfish, croakers, shark, and coryphenes. 



The tiger of the sea, the great white shark, occasionally visits 

 the harbor waters of Cuba, and has been known to seize barefooted 

 peons, surf-bathing horses in the next neighborhood of Morro Castle, 

 and drag them under so suddenly that their companions were unable 

 to account for their disappearance till the foam of the breakers be- 

 came flecked with blood. 



That champion of marine man-eaters is as smooth as a hypocrite, 

 and hides its double row of horrible fangs under a slippery nose, while 

 the little butterfly fish tries its best to disguise its helplessness with a 

 crest of spiny fins. Its length rarely exceeds four inches, and it can 

 be handled with impunity, but its spines are just rigid enough to en- 

 tangle it in tufts of gulf weed, and in company of equally tiny sea 

 horses and goldfish, it can often be seen in the aquariums of the 

 Jamaica seaport towns. 



[To be continued.] 



A STUDY OF LUIGI LUCCHENI (ASSASSIN OF THE 

 EMPRESS OF AUSTRIA). 



BY CESAKE LOMBEOSO. 



f I ^ HERE is not an enlightened person in the world who does not 

 -L deplore the anarchist crime committed last summer by Luc- 

 cheni in Geneva upon the unfortunate Empress of Austria. With 

 grief is associated the duty of inquiring what could have been the ori- 

 gin of a misdeed which besides being cruel had the vice of being ab- 

 surd, falling as it did upon a poor woman near the tomb, who was 

 ready to welcome death, and who had no political influence, by an 

 assassin who had not suffered any offense from her or from her gov- 

 ernment, and who further had the impudence to boast of his crime 

 as if it had been a heroic act. 



