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note of astonishment from a shark, says the scientist, and others give notes of the same character from many sea monsters. Prof. Kollicker’s investigations are arousing considerable interest among savants in Southern Europe, and the out- come is awaited anxiously. Infinite possibilities are spreading before us. Prof. Gar- ner has only succeeded in proving to us that the monkey in his native lair speaks a language which, with much study, mankind may understand, when the discovery is made that our friends of the deep, in whom heretofore we have felt only a gastronomic interest, may prove to be posessed of conversational graces and unsuspected accomplishments. The gentle Izaak Walton of the future, when meditat- ing along the bank of some sylvan stream, may find hi* reveries interrupted and his solitude invaded by the trout he has just landed, which will beg piteously to be allowed to end his days among his old familiar friends in the pool of his childhood.—Providence, R. 1. Telegram . CONDEMNED BY PHONOGRAPH. The Phonograph has at last been used effectively in court, in the case of Mile. Lucie Belotte, a Paris music hall singer. Mile. Belotte charged a man with threaten- ing to kill her unless she would marry him. She said he had made this threat as she had been singing into a Phono- graph. The Judge ordered the Phonograph cylinder brought into court. It was set to work and ground out the first part of a song, followed suddenly by the threat in a voice that every one recognized as the defendant’s. He made no further attempt at denial and was sentenced.— From the New York JVorl4.