... A SPIDER SWALLOWING ITS WEB. A correspondent writes to Nature Notes Early in September some friends of mine saw a garden spider (one with white marks on its back) make a web large enough to cover one pane of the dining room window. It Avas a beautiful ...

... much harder to say ' not at home, or call again, to • lady than to one of their own sex. This the authorities have naturally noted, and we need not be surprised if we the of rate-oolleeting entrusted almost entirely to magire maid' and matrons in the ...

... nre often seen in fashionable menns. Tliey wake a very delicate meal, but can anyman of feeling eat them with a relish? Nature Notes says tliey are being eaten at dinner parties by lens of thousands, and are in consequence rapidly diminishing in numbers ...

... to the multitudinous friends of this lady to learn .:that she thinks of reappearing in Italian opera a few months hence. Nature Notes requests those who propose visiting our heaths, commons, and open spaces during the holidays to be careful not to throw ...