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Show How A ntinala Die. That beasto and binla go asido from their comrades to suffer tho extreme trials of death is a pathetic fact not generally gen-erally known. Whales come ashore when they feel ill, so that tho waves may dash out tho life that is fast ebbing auav deliberate cases of suicide, vou ; will say. Sometimes, no doubt, their friends desert them. The healthy ones I feel that the; companionship of an enfeebled individual is a possible ; source of danger. Or it may bo that ' the sight of death is intolerable to thein, just as it has lavn to many human i races. Whatever tho explanation, the I f.K't remains that, in the animal world, I as a rule, creatures go away and die by ! themselves; the denizens of tho water ' commit what might bo called suicide by , leaving their own elements for one in which they cannot exist. St. Louis Re-! Re-! public. |