... 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. ADVENTURE WITH LIONS. A correspondent at Blantyre, Central Africa, relates a thrilling adventure with lions. FKour waggons from Blantyre, returning from Ukate, on the shore of Lake Nyassa, after unloading cotton there, camped at ni%ht in ...

... 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. SINGING INSECTS. Among the natural curiosities of Japan are its singing insects. The most prized of these tiny musicians is a black beetie named «gusumushi,” which means ‘““insect bell.” The sound that it emits resembles that of a little ...

... 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. 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., 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 ...

... NATURE NOTES, | THe GUILLEMOT. This somewhat odd-looking bird is perhaps better known as the * foolish gumeum, » and is also, in some places, called the willock, or tinkershere. It is one of the commonest of the species, and is met with in the tideway ...