... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... inhabitant of Stourbridge possesses a ca- ?? nary which, having been kept in a cage hung in per, a yard, mingles with its natural notes the call of ms, young chickens, the clucking of hens, and the me- chirping of sparrows. lce, A few days since a boy, about ...

... earnestly-the 12 or 1-1 perorations of Mr. H17cE to every speech the veteran delivers -all these may be matters of good-natured note, but they have, of course, little to do with oratory. There are souse earnest men, chiefly young, who are ow. ing-up, ...