... NATURE NOTES. Things that Fish Swallon. A well-known naturalist writer has recrn'V made study of the queer things swallowed fish. leaves out question the large fi»V, e , like sharks, which swallow nearly everything that comes their way. couliues ims ...

... NATURE NOTES. Hons Birds Keep North-wards, It rather a puzzling thing to conjecture how migratory binii manage to keeD np their flight io due north direction after uight. There is ample proof that on clear night* they often wing their flight in tno rarefied ...

... NATURE NOTES. I Ferocious Animals the Least Sagacious. In the first place. Nature is strictly economical, and where brute strength alone suffices keep up the struggle for existence, she does not bestow considerable brain power, la the second place, the ...

... NATURE NOTES. Mioroseepiats are now able to see aaeaanre object* larger than the 300-1000 th part of aa took. A comparison of the maximum temperature hi different parts of tho world show* that th* Great Desert Africa i* by far th* hotteat. This vast plain ...

... NATURE NOTES. About the Brain. The average weight of the brain of an adult Kale ia three pounds eight ounces ; a iemt.e two four ounces. The nerve* are all connected witn it directly or spinal marrow. These nerval, with their branches and minute ramititations ...

... NATURE NOTES. Ingrowing Trees. the corner of a wood the farm of Mr. \V. J. Saratoga, New York, there onrious example of two whit* sprue* creel growing into each oilier. Ike two trunks are sepai ate independent of other to a height of about twelve feet ...

... NATURE NOTES. Tall and Small. The three tallest trees in the world are believed Sequoia, which ia found near Stockton, Cal., is 325 ft. high, and two found in Victoria, estimcted to bo 436 ft. and 450 ft. in height reepectively. Contrast this with the ...

... NATURE NOTES. Th Song of Birds. Writing in Science, Dr. Morris Gibbt sayt thst reeuits of observations of the songs of ditfereat species of birds shows that the ...

... NATURE NOTES. Bird Drunkards. In Florida there is bath culled the Pride Chiaa, whioh in winter is covered with berriee which the birds delight to feed. Mad berries the name commonly given to the fruit, from the fact that over-indulgence in them produces ...

... NATURE NOTES. The Wolf Spider. About the most unnatural thing in Naturepardon the seeming paradox—is the manner in which the young the American wolf-spider treat their mother. After the little creature has laid her eggs she carries them about a ball, ...

... NATURE NOTES Frog Ventriloquists. A traveller, while pioneering in South Brazil, we* etruck by tbe low and plaintive cry of some reature calling in the night. He was at impressed with the idea that it wai the cry of a hild, but tbe tonei toon convinced ...

... NATURE NOTES. Keeping Late Hours. In Wofipl countries, the struggle fot to rags fiercer than in the temoerate regions, vast numbsr animals have driven by want, seek their livelihood in the dark, through stress of competition. The howler monkeys, for example ...