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Show drumfish feeding at flood tide. The man- j dating shark likes the sutne kind of diet, ' and many a Woody conflict enum between be-tween thofo robbers of tho gr.yt deep when thoy meet on cuiiitwm fi-eding ground. In front of the hotel there is counidirablo depth of wnUr, and the xir-poises xir-poises camo so near that many of them could have been reached with a lUliinif rod. Suddenly, aa the school of porjMjieei were tumbling over each other in pluy. a four foot li.'irlfid'i a daxh out of the ' water, pursued by a ton foot jKirpoie. The porpoise suooex-ded in biting a piece out of the man-eator and inaln a Iciima plunge at the shark in mid air, while tin son beenmn red with blond. j Both fish were in a dnol to the death. 1 j Neither tried to esc). The r-hurk was the swif test in motion, but whs an tin- r j equal antagonist. The purpoisu would dive nudV-r him and strike him in tho ; bully nndr watr, to tlie grest ilisoom-fort ilisoom-fort of the man-eater, whowi jaws were not big enough to make inn'h impression impres-sion on the tongh hidn of the slipjmry sea hog. Threo timed they met in mid air, and struck each other a.i two bull elks butt each oMier with their antlers. I Tho porpoise slowly retln-d ten f'-et, and with tho ewit'lno of lightning strnck the shark in tho middle and rii-ped rii-ped him open. The Liiiiwater sxni floated float-ed dead out on the sea, while the porpoise, por-poise, badly hurt, followed his companions compan-ions np Townsend inlet. Cor. I'liiliKlid' phia Times. Shark and Porpolt Fight. j Monday mornitig at 5 o'clock vAile, the bathers at Avabn. N. J., wereccjoy bi a bata in the surf, which U permitted below the hotel np to 6 o'clock in ths morning, aiarge (cbotjl of porpoi:nade a darfi np the coart just bf-hicd the breaker. There was over a hundred of these slippery monsters, ao hard tocatch I in a nm. and they never bite at any knowa bait. A food si4 porpoiae wiU I devour a boehrf of rjwbnr.kr or a i Toang dmmfieh si a ringle meal, and jrat now tii- eorf i tiled with sniaU |