A Curiosity

than a black tulip, a red-haired negro or a four-leaved shamrock, is the amazing natural curiosity now beingexhibit ed in the Berlin Aquarium, to the materia) argumentation of that admirable institution's daily receipts. A rnilk white raven, with pale pink eyes and red legs, received adniission a week agoto the great central aviary in which scores of beautiful birds flutter and cliirp and build their neat.s in comparative freedom; büt his presenee there spread such general janic among the remaining inmates of the voliere that it han lxen found atotBêacf to remove hini to 8 separate rage. Strango as it may seem, the other birds instinrtively recognized that this (Vrvine Albion was abnonnal and tl.eiefore terrible. Many of them becanie total abstainera froiii food and drink through sheer fright, while lie shared their quarters, and huddled together, shivering, ;it as fíir;it a distance trom the fearful anoinalv as the limits of their prison woukl jioiinit them to attain. In all respecte save his extraordinary hues, the raven ia as other ravens. His appetite is apparently insatiablc, and he ministers to it vrith a formidabl beak. Xeither in tone or deliverr is ther any unusual niellowness or tenderness almut his croak. His pink eyes could not be more steadfastly engageti in contemplating the main chance mre they as yellow as burnished gold. He was found, with a coal-black brood of brothers and sisters, in a nest built by his parents - whose surprise at his appearance must, we should think, have been considerable - on the topmost branch of an old tree in the (ieorgenthal, a valley in Thuringen. Doubly an anachronism, this snow-whitt raven is at present one of the "liona" of the Germán capital.