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A TALKING CANArtV

... A TALKING CANARY A CORRESPONDENT of Nature Notes gives an account of. Churchill, Somerset. The bird of a talking canary seen recentlyin the little vil toa Backland, wife of a gardener living in Charchill. * Joey ” came came into when only six weeks old ...

Published: Wednesday 09 August 1893
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening Dispatch
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 156 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

A BENEVOLENT CAT

... A BENEVOLENT CAT. “Tue following curious the Ret. White, of Lemsden Vicarage, in Nature Notes, “has recently benevolence,” writes onme under my notice. An old cat, aged about fourteen years, has for the last ve yeare taken the chickens uf an old Bramab ...

Published: Friday 22 September 1893
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening Dispatch
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 289 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE EVENING DISPATCH. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1803

... districts aud kirk sesston Of Robertson and Edinburgh Eve Dispensa ti £100 each; minister | Mr P. Lewis, Hereford, sends to Nature Notes an tnot expect much support from Ireland mvolved in the present disastrous dispute. These | emorial Church, to be | of ...

Published: Saturday 04 November 1893
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening Dispatch
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3574 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

COMMERCIAL MATT. lis lons4loime =7.7.7 *mei i• saw yourrilw kg kr la MA Ow pdripl }Mild blob Is

... committed because he had only £30,000 left. Srx persons have been killed and injured by a cyclone in Birming! A waiter in Nature Notes tells an of a flock of starlings chasing a hawk, which, made good its score ever ine year, when in a match Peal] be made ...

Published: Wednesday 07 February 1894
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening Dispatch
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 286 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Tue retail price of coal has been further reduced by 2s a ton on the London Exchange. Town Council has

... light works. ies of moths never eat after attain- @ perfect stata y have no mouths, and i bu ta few hours, A wrrrenr in Nature Notes tells an interesting story of a flock of starlings chasing a hawk, which, evidently frightened, made escape. is a laundry ...

Published: Wednesday 07 February 1894
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 277 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

BOOKS QE THE WEEK

... living things , whether moTin ; in sea or air or on earth—in short , he is something of a nature-poet as well as a taker of nature-notes . Tha pleasure o { a walk by the Eca ortheriFer side . or along the hedgerows or over the moors of his native county will ...

Published: Monday 30 April 1894
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 31322 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE TRAVELLER'S MISTAKE

... mo me! T ask you, senor, you are?’ “I am a beggar, , and asked you for alms '” THE SHEEP AND HER BLIND LAMB. Awarrer in Nature Notes for this month tells a pretty story of a mother with twin lambs, one ot ich seemed quite different from the other. He others ...

Published: Wednesday 06 June 1894
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening Dispatch
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 199 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Ma J. N. MIicLOUN M.P., AND HIS carra

... last days of the unfortunate MUMMY WHEAT. tion of certain purchases morphine by the the President: anzious for efforts in Nature Notes destroy the “vulgar error” that of wheat which have been af another moment pained her, she eaid ; then her borom enclosed ...

Published: Thursday 10 January 1895
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening Dispatch
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3432 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE PERILS OF JOHN WETHERAL: A NARRATIVE

... out just at the present moment. The inquest disclosed some other matters, which were not merely inferences; and these I naturally noted with care, in view of anything else that might ensue. It disclosed, for instance, that my wretched victim's name was Ralph ...

Published: Sunday 01 December 1895
Newspaper: The Scots Magazine
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4357 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

IN the December number of Nature Notes will be found a very interesting contribution by Mr. John D. Batten on

... IN the December number of Nature Notes will be found a very interesting contribution by Mr. John D. Batten on Bats. He has kept and watched several of these creatures, and, among other curious things, he observed that the common bat is practically blind ...

Published: Saturday 04 January 1896
Newspaper: National Observer
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Advertisement | Words: 167 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

[July 18, 1896

... Hawtrey's reforms as Headmaster in the school and especially in College. Of the reforms in the school Mr. St. John Thackeray naturally notes the abolition of Montem as being the most important as well as the last. There was, of course, great and powerful opposition ...

Published: Saturday 18 July 1896
Newspaper: National Observer
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 371 | Page: 26 | Tags: none