... has received a coat of newwhite paint. * # « Blue-tits have returned to their nesting place in a disused pump, states a nature note to-day. But not in Melbourne, Derbyshire, where it's all hands to every pump during the water shortage. * Two former ...

... pink and white cakes. Henpecked, Alvaston, says that his wife's tea parties are generally blackand-tan affairs. * * * Nature note: Visitors to the bird-tables in Alvaston Gardens are getting more numerous with the advent of springlike weather. They include ...

... nightingale ! * * Between 40 and 50 different kinds of birds which left last autumn are now returning home, states a nature note. Mr. G. and G. agrees. He found all these and many other varieties playing havoc with his newly-planted seeds this morning ...

... garage and asked for a tyre. 44 Certainly, miss, said the man. 44 Balloon? 44 Of course not, was the reply. 44 Motorcar. Nature note. When the exchequer bird becomes relentless in May, the lesser nit wits are turned from song, and one can anticipate fewer ...

... old Aunt Matilda writes, What my poor mother would have said about such a bare-faced boast I scarcely like to think! NATURE NOTE. The other day. writes correspondent, I was walking down the street I saw duck-billed platypus with a top hat on driving ...

... a close third. ° The three personages who have done most to make the apple famous are Adam, William Tell, and Applejack NATURE NOTE. My hobbies are stamp-collecting and botany said Mr. Lowenstein to me with a 'happy laugh. In fact any kind of sport ...

... There is time for the w . B , on* Judging from the many poems on to?, —..nflg half the world fighting and the other ha . Nature note The German Eagle . bird now moulting, always flies low, having f or Highflyer. • .^Vi many London waiters are serving German ...

... cloves. This is . K1 ful appetiser, because after it you won't need an appe tite - go These, I fancy, are enough with. NATURE NOTE. . You will remember my nl> man who was hanging from his feet. Well, a correspondent that he has had a similar e «t V. As ...

... Vitus Dance 0 Our only hope would be to try and infect the Australian XL with hay fever and call it a draw. Jf. OA. 7V NATURE NOTE. The other day, writes a correspondent, I was present the annual meeting the Pea Shellers' Association. Halfway through ...

... music with the pianist. The Archdeacon Derby (the Ven. E. S. Noakes) is make an appeal for the Hospital at the service. Nature Note The bright blue shallows are alive with leisurely-moving bodies in all the colours of the rainbow—royal blue, yellow, scarlet ...

... they overlooked several hundredweight of coal in tho cellar. For the first time since the war it. seems an interesting nature note recorded. An actor and a piece of cheese were seen meeting in a Strand luncheon bar. Cheese cutting, says ladies' jonrnal ...

... reassembles a fortnight hence. A correspondent with The Blackbird's Friar-gate address Return. sends me an interesting nature note. When writing near a window (she says) my attention was attracted by the flapping of wings and some rather excited bi ?s ...