... NATURE NOTES. AWIRAL POWER. Interesting testa made recently in Nadi ua re Gerdes', New York, to Jetertai:. ,, the respeiiive pulling power of horses, elephents. horses, weighuig one thousand six hundred pounds each, together pulled three tisousand seven ...

... NATURE NOTES. nowt= ox Siloam -- A maim, when planed as a solos* ma as • polished table, coo ticiLly no hsedway, beesuss it dads Do to aid it is pushing itself AGAINST Plp sire practically proof against maw because tire poison rarely, it roar, ~Ow tbe ...

... NATURE NOTES. A Fla' wrrx Lae.. Dr. John Baseman, who is on an exploriag expedition for Pittsburg Carnegie Institute. reports that be has discovered near Menem,. Brasil, a fish with rudimentary legs.. the long-looked-for miming link between the salamander ...

... NATURE NOTES. A LAU= MUST. animal possessing the largest heart is The Greenland whale. Its heart is one yard In diameter. and more than three yard@ round the largest part. STIDtI. _ By some unexplained means, the popular name, tarantula. has come into ...

... NATURE NOTES. A SPLENDID DAM In the reptile hoes* at the London Gardens there is now to be seen a remarkably large example el llastralian earp.t-pytbon. liplength is estimated at INt.. which is said to exceed that of the largest preciously exhibited by ...

... NATURE NOTES. . THE WORLD OF WORK. Hew • NUM LABOUR KNIGHT'S NEW POST. There is no other bird which quite Sir William Cromman, the Cardiff the same risk and eysdes them in the same °labour knight. has been appointed superway as the pigoon. Given a fair ...

... NATURE NOTES. DOG V. MX A remarkable seeing Is have mqvirred in the liver Weaver. Tire aa. glen were Edda, ea Ileaday. sad taw se use of then was edged by a sue voracity leak rod, ell were dragged lab water. them a isa-terrise same shag dived in after ...

... NATURE NOTES. NOT ATZATD OP WASPS. A bleekkird will stand at the aide a! * hanging and deliberately tear N in pit?;es in order to get an the larva. appaready undisturbed by the el arigry insects. ...

... NATURE NOTES. RESPECTING WHALES. belonging to Dundee whaling beet bring ba:k sorry accounts of the Davis Strait) whale fishing. The weather has been very bad. Fog, ice, and snow greatly handicapped the crews in the prosecution of the fisning, And ore ...

... NATURE NOTES. CANADA'S From source to sea the St. is over two thousand miles in length and it to the ocean an amount of water Cl. (waded by no other river on the globe the Ammon. Ordinarily, however, the name of Si. is only applied to the hundred miles ...

... NATURE NOTES. FAIT GR.,wrgo rams. or trees grow fast. There is one in Florida which shot up forty feet in four years, and another in Guatemala, which grew 120 feet in twelve veers. This eorresponds to a rise of ten feet a year, or nearly one foot per ...

... NATURE NOTES. our OF DOORS. The golden plover is on the wes.ern shores of Engl.uid. The skylark sad rtbin still continue tessusg, the jay to call in the depths of the woods, the owls to make the nights hideous with their hooting'. Tlw caterpillar of black ...