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THE SHEEP AND HER BLIND LAMB

... little white innocent-faced lambs gambolling by their side, the objects of tender solicitude to these mothers. A writer in Nature Notes tells a pretty story of a mother with twin lambs, one of which seemed quite different from the other. He observed it wandering ...

Published: Saturday 07 July 1894
Newspaper: Lisburn Standard
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 235 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

LARKS OR SPARROWS?

... LARKS OR SPARROWS? Larks are now often in the mina. They make, in truth:a delicate ule4. but, asks Nature Notes, is it agreeable with Selbornian feeling to eat them? They are being consumed by tens of thousands, and are► rapidly diminishing in numbers ...

Published: Saturday 15 January 1898
Newspaper: Lisburn Standard
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1330 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SCIENCE NOTES. A Raw and ingenious instrument for setting the teeth of saws has been introduced by the Helmer* ..

... ne to the petroleum. Carbide so treated gives off acetylene quite regularly under the action of water. Ms. Mosa.vr. in Nature Notes, calls attention to the great destruction of monkeys on the Gold Coast for their skins. Some 200,000, valued at £30,000 ...

Published: Saturday 15 July 1899
Newspaper: Lisburn Standard
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1235 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE LISBURN SrANTDAItn—SATITRnAY. APRIL 21, 1900

... Astwood Bank, Worcestershire, is in the habit of providing some curious homes for the birds in his neighbourhood. He tells in Nature Notes that last spring he accommodated three pairs of robins with ordinary empty tomato tins to build in, which he placed in ...

Published: Saturday 21 April 1900
Newspaper: Lisburn Standard
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 4113 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

CAUGHT BY THE TELEPHONE

... though a staunch friend of this country, was perhaps the mosta)opular statesman in Hungary. THE following (says a writer in Nature Notes) is worth recording. In the hollows of a small but aged elm-tree standing in front of a well-known inn on the Faringdonroad ...

Published: Saturday 24 August 1901
Newspaper: Lisburn Standard
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1329 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

rANDARD-SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 2t, I !3

... choice of churns. which necessitated her going to look over Hugh's shoulder. (To roptimvd.) BIRD VENGEANCE. A writer in Nature Notes describes an amusing encounter between a large swan and a little brown duck. The duck had appart oily insulted the swan ...

Published: Saturday 21 February 1903
Newspaper: Lisburn Standard
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1265 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

CAPE FLORA

... lora in the world which Is more dainty in its localism than that of South Africa. The Cape Peninsula, for example, says Nature's Notes , has a flora much more distinct from that of the Karroo, less than 100 miles away, than the vegetation of England is ...

Published: Saturday 21 March 1903
Newspaper: Lisburn Standard
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 849 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

FATAL FENCING BOUT

... half times over : its total debt, that is to say, is six and • half times the assessable value of the town. A writer in Nature Notes states that. there are unusual numbers of gadwall on the waters ■t Euston this spring—quite 150. This is curious, for ...

Published: Saturday 16 May 1903
Newspaper: Lisburn Standard
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1228 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

EPITOME OF NEWS

... Marconi Company announce that a contract with Copenhagen financiers for this purpose warn signed by them gee weeks ago. NATURE NOTES. ...

Published: Saturday 13 June 1903
Newspaper: Lisburn Standard
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3505 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

BDUCATIONAL SMITS

... • half feet long, dated 1563, • sword blade, and • pistol. The relies will be exhibited at the Glasgow Royal Exchange. NATURE NOTES. ,A CAMPHOR FOREST. A forest of camphor trees, covering an area of Issue 50,000 acne, has, according to the Anglo. 'Japanese ...

Published: Saturday 27 June 1903
Newspaper: Lisburn Standard
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 892 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE LISBURN STANTDARTI-BATtrRnAT. JULY 18, 1903. NATURE NOTES. A BIC JACK. One of the largest pike ever taken ..

... THE LISBURN STANTDARTI-BATtrRnAT. JULY 18, 1903. NATURE NOTES. A BIC JACK. One of the largest pike ever taken from the River Witham has just been captured at 'l'a/tea-- shall. It 1:;in. in length, was 19iu. is girth. and neighed 'l2llb. WOMAN'S WORLD ...

Published: Saturday 18 July 1903
Newspaper: Lisburn Standard
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1176 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE LISBURN SrANTDARII—SATITRnAY. AIY.I.ST 1, 1903

... contracted the disease through eating shell-flab, and of these eight traced their illness to eating cockles at Southend. NATURE NOTES. lIILeERRIEB. A marked feature of the trade of the week in UP lruit markets of the Midlands has been the bill,. re) boom ...

Published: Saturday 01 August 1903
Newspaper: Lisburn Standard
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1256 | Page: 7 | Tags: none