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Animal Life 
and the insect itself was very much larger. 
I managed after a vast amount of 
searching to secure the right food, and nursed it most carefully until it turned into. 
a chrysalis. 
Governor to stay at Government House. 
Everything went well until a month or so afterwards, when I arrived at 
a port on the north coast of Australia and was 
invited by His Excellency the. 
Of course I took my treasure on shore 
with me, as by that time I was expecting it shortly to hatch out and assume its. 
final shape. 
all my hopes! 
Placing it in a small open box in my bedroom I suspended it from a 
beam so as to ensure that it would remain perfectly still and undisturbed. 
Alas for 
Imagine my horror at being awakened in the middle of the night by 
a strange noise, and on jumping up beholding a huge rat, which had climbed down the 
the cord holding my precious possession and was even then making off with it in its 
mouth! 
of a new species. 
That was the last I ever saw of what I by that time knew to be a male 
Only one has since been discovered, and it proves to be far more 
beautiful than, though not unlike, Ornithoptera paradisea. 
ANIMAL ANECDOTES. 
THERE is something noble in the way a white 
bull-terrier, “Jack” by name, met 
his death recently while perform- 
ing a heroic deed to save four 
youngsters from the attacks of a vicious bull. 
The children had gone into a field to look for 
wild flowers, and “Jack,” only a year old, invited 
himself to join the party. The youngsters didn’t 
see the bull which was in the meadow until he 
was close upon them, and then there was no 
time to escape. Down into their midst rushed 
the fierce animal, with lowered head and a roar 
that froze the blood of the children ; but ‘‘ Jack” 
met the enemy half-way, and was nearly gored 
at the first plunge. Having checked the sudden 
onslaught, however, ‘Jack’ made a quick cireuit 
to the rear, where he seized one of the bull’s 
hind legs just above the hoof. High into the 
air kicked the bull, and “Jack”’ rose and fell again 
with a thud, but not for an instant did he relax 
the grip he had taken upon the leg of his big 
enemy. Snorting and bellowing, the bull pawed 
and ripped the earth with his front feet, stood 
on his hind legs, tried in vain to reach the 
terrier with his horns, and finally turned and 
ran away with the dog still hanging in a deadly 
grip to his heel. It was indeed a deadly grip 
for ‘‘ Jack,’ but it saved the lives of his four 
human friends, and no doubt ‘‘Jack”’ gave up his 
life gladly to save the children whom he loved 
so well. Around and around the enclosure the 
now crazy animal plunged, dragging the dog 
A Brave 
Terrier. 
behind him. ‘Jack,’ silent and determined, set 
his teeth the closer—and thus he died! 
“‘Jack’s”’ body was picked up and taken home,. 
where it was buried with real grief by the 
youngsters. 
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“As an illustration of what mice can be taught, 
several years ago, while staying at: 
the house of a friend in Yorkshire,”’ 
writes a Blackpool correspondent, 
“«T was shown six mice which had been kept in a. 
box for several months. They were well fed, and 
so did not attempt to gnaw their dwelling. My 
friend had a kind of cart for them with bone 
buttons as wheels, and a packthread harness. On 
being taken out of thg box, they remained quite 
still while the harness was put upon them, and 
when that was done, they started at full gallop 
along the top of a large table. At first they had 
to be turned back again when they got to the 
end, but they soon learned to turn of their own 
accord, and performed their journey with as 
much regularity as well-trained horses.” ; 
Mice as 
Horses. 
es 
NettgE Buancuan, the well-known American 
naturalist, tells the following story 
about a sparrow :—‘“‘A pair of these 
prolific little pests began to build 
in the shutter of a New Jersey country house. 
The ornithologist who lived there shot the male, 
A Cheerful 
Widow. 
