posed, he was almoel exhausted oa reaching the shore, and had he remained in tbe river five minutes longer in- would certainly have perished. The joy oi that wife, on seeing ber husband, who. a moment before, bad been struggling in the jaws of deatb, can be m >re easily imagined than described.

Befon : In- last man in the skiff could be res cued it broke 100.-.- from its fas ten iug and was