... NATURE NOTE. A Dover newspaper recently contained the following plrlgrn,Kxe:-—A very fine specimen of a water otter was caught on the slope at the root of the Fastern Arm this week by one of the workmen. It is being kept in a tub near the sceme of its ...

... A NATURE NOTE, Two farmers made a sporting wager as to which of them could hold a wusp in‘;il hand the longer without getting stung. One of them, heing a wily creature, rn%b«i chloroform on his hand before he took hold of the wasp, The other farmer, being ...

... NATURE NOTES. A Curiovs CHANGE. A remarkable transformation of a cat’s fur by temperature has been reported. A black cat was accidentally shut in the vefrigerating chamber of a mail steamer in SJ:ey harbour, and was not discovered until about thirty-two ...

... NATURE NOTES It any man be vain of bis knowledge, thinking himself wise, let him but visit the world of ipsects, and ‘on himself which is the greatest Igr quest| r his ignorance.” M. C. Cooke In the matter of butterflies the waning summer seems to reserve ...

... NATURE NOTES. /HE BARN OWL. The favourite haunt of the barn owl, as its name denotes, is in barns, but it may also be found in church towers and the eaves of houses. Old ruins or some unfrequented spot are olten chosen for a place of abode, and when once ...

... NATURE NOTES. A fine specimen of the aloe tree is now (observes the Daily Graphic) in full bloom in Miss Gibson's garden, Hill House, Saffron Walden. Recently a fisherman killed on the Norfolk coast a specimen of the rare yellow Siberian warbler (Phylloscopus ...

... NATURE NOTES. ea— How A Piexoy Dmiwxs. Thers is no other bird which runs quite the same risk and evades them in the same way as the pigeon. Given a fair start and no mrg:in there is no hawk that can take him. the pigeon flies swiftly from a distance to ...

... NATURE NOTES. AgBANGEMENTS have been made by the secretary and committee of the *“Hope to Progper © Silver Band, North Skelton,| Tp many meadows and woods the wild with the Corporation of Ripon for the|dafiodil is blooming freely now. It is band to give ...

... NATURE NOTES. Braruike Smrprerp Doos. A It has already been noted by acientists that certain mountain dogs have shapes and assume attributes resembling those of a bear. Among these dogs the lheeg dog of the Pyrences bears a closer resemblance to the bear ...

... NATURE NOTES. A CAMPHIR FOREST. A fovest of camphor trees, covering an area of some 50,000 acres, has, according to the * Anglo- Japanese Gazette,” been discovered in the southern part of Taiwan, containing, roughly, some 120.000 trees. ‘The trees, which ...

... NATURE NOTES. How Tumsty Praxts Ger WATZR. In the arid regions of Egypt, a French botanist has found roots twenty times a 3 long as the part of the plant above the surface. On some of these desert plants the same observer has moticed a very curioud m ...

... NATURE NOTES., Geruax Ostricm Famw. The ostrich farm founded three years ago by Mr. Hagenbeck near Hamburg is growing rapidly in immunoe as velFal size. It was fir. Hagenbeck's theory that the ostrich, although a native of got countries, would thrive i ...