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... NATURE NOTES. nrE mon CANT SWIM. The mewl cannot swim. Extraordinary though it sounds, the moment this auitual tubes ib fuoting in a stream turns over, and no effort to Aare itself from drowning. ...

... NATURE NOTES. A SPLENDID SNAKE. In the reptile house at the London Zoological Gardens there is now to be seen a remarkably large example of the Australian carpet-python. Its length is estimated at 18ft., which is said to exceed that of the largest previously ...

... NATURE NOTES. APPLES IN ABUNDANCE. Everybody is agreed that this to of the most wonderful years for apples ever known, and there is no reason to doubt the stories which come from all quarters trees which have actually more apple* than lessee upon them ...

... NATURE NOTES. NILES OF STARFISH. What is locally known as • beach kerniesee . has just taken place 00 the lli!pan coast betweee Ostend and Blankenberghe It takes the fora of avast deposit of stardi.b. throws up by the sea is seeds numbers that they ...

... NATURE NOTES. ANIMAL POWER. Interesting tests were mad. meetly in the Madison-square Gardens, New York, to determine the respective pulling power of horses, men, and elephants. Two horses, weighing es. thousand air hundred pounds each, together polled ...

... NATURE NOTES. COWARD SHAM. TLie cowardly sharks is well-knows men who haws Ws - to ass is waters. The will getout at way of a swtanner hiker up a noisy in g. Among BM (says' Saiessa Stating's) this anew alone, bat always in parties st a so. in order ...

... NATURE NOTES. A HARVEST OF EELS. Oyer four tons of eels have bees dispatched from Thorpe, is the Fens, within the last few days, to London. They were caught as a result of a trench being cut from overful mere to the sea in order to set free the flood ...

... NATURE NOTES. OUT OF DOORS. The golden plover is arriving ea wee.ern shores of England. The skylark and robin still continue to sing, the jay to call in the depths of the woods, the owls to make the nights hideous with their hooting,. The caterpillar ...

... Nature Notes and Queries. THE CORNCRAKE. (From “Nature Notes in the * Northern Whig.”) “J. W. M.” writes from Bangor to ask where the corncrake winters, and suggests that it does not appear to be a bird capable of a long over-sea flight. As many people ...

... NATURE NOTES. DOG V. FISH. A reuiarkaide angling incident is reported to have occurred in the River Weaver. Two anglers were fishing on Sunday, and the bait of one of them was seised by a pike with such voracity that float, line, rod, and all were dragged ...

... NATURE NOTES. HEY, JOLLY ROBIN It is to the song of the robin that we mast look for the music of the autumn months. There is something strangely suggestive of traria and winter even (observes the Daily Chronicle) is the music of the robin. Not alms ...