INSTINCT — The instinct of Newfoundland dogs to save a drowning person has been somewhat painfully tested by an unlucky Frenchman. He was walking in the country with a friend, who possessed a magnificnet Newfoundland, and incautiously questioned the truth of the animal's sagacity. The dog's master, vexed at the slur cast on his favourite, gave his friend a push and knocked him into a shallow river. "Turk" immediately sprang in, and, seizing one of the tails of the immersed man's coat, commenced to swim for land. Unfortunately another Newfoundland, trotting along the other side of the river, saw the affair, and also came to the rescue. Dog number two seized the other tail of the coat and wished to swim back to his master. "Turk" held fast and struggled for his sidek, and the owner of the coat cried in vain for help. At last the coat gave way, and each Newfoundland swam proudly home with a piece of cloth in his mouth, so that "Turk"'s master was obliged to plunge in himself to save his friend. — Graphic.