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TILE ItOLOCH OF FASHION

... TILE ItOLOCH OF FASHION. Nature Notes prints an appeal to the clergy which kas just been issued by the Society for the Protection sf Birds. It is from the pen of Mr. W. H. Hudson, and one passage runs: In the case of some species of birds which ere ...

Published: Saturday 15 February 1896
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 365 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

INSECT MOBILISATION

... MOBILISATION. Wonderful are the ways of ants, and in no respect more than as a sort of contorted reflection of our own. Nature Notes recalls the experiment of a well - known scientist who once on the brown hills surrounding the famous old city of Toledo ...

Published: Saturday 17 December 1904
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 353 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE. WIG lON ADVERTISER--SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1911

... THE. WIG lON ADVERTISER--SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1911. NATURE NOTES. MAILVILLOI7IIII ROOT POWER. Instances have occurred showing tae great power displayed by tree roots. Vine roots have been seen actually forcing their way through a brick itself, and ...

Published: Saturday 23 September 1911
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 333 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

FELINE ANGLING

... water, it will, perhaps, be interesting to know that, where fish is • bait, this objection is overoome. A correspondent of Nature Notes has • cat which is very fond of catching the small sad seemingly unattractive fish in the Thames. He is a large silvergrey ...

Published: Saturday 27 June 1903
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 370 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

COWS THAT EAT FISH

... one gentleman stated that he used to give a cow a sea-trout be did not want, and that the animal ate the fish readily. NATURE NOTES. TIM PAIRS 07 Erse. Fishes have been discovered in Guatemala with two pairs of eyes. One pair does duty abuse muter and ...

Published: Saturday 10 August 1907
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 379 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

DULWICH COLLEGE

... Norroy King of Anus has erected in St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, the banner of Queen Alexandra, Lady of the Garter. NATURE NOTES. A CAMPHOR FOREST. A forest of camphor trees, covering an area et some 50,000 sores, has, according to the Anglo- J apanese ...

Published: Saturday 27 June 1903
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 359 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

EXPENSIVE SMOKING

... to visit Portsmouth in January next and lay the memorial-stone of a new church being }hilt for the BOW Marine Artillery. NATURE NOTES. MSE(IT LIGHT. The lantern fly of Surinam, South Ameeca, has two sets of eyes to catch the light from all possible directions ...

Published: Saturday 05 December 1903
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 391 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

AFTER DEATH,

... to trust, but that trSst, or faith in implanted in us, and is strengthened by everything around Muller. MARCH 5, 1910. NATURE NOTES. ♦ NirriLu. Tow?. The .palm has the largest leaves 'of as; tree. The Inaja palm of the ♦mason country has leaves which ...

Published: Saturday 05 March 1910
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 433 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

A NEW POSTAL IDEA

... ze bad tempaire. The Mamma: Ah, yes, count; but you know she kises her temper so easily. The Count: Ah, how loafir r NATURE NOTES. OUT OF DOORS. The golden plover is arriving .Me wekern shores of England. The skylark and rtbin still continue to sing ...

Published: Saturday 12 November 1904
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 432 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

A NORTH SEA INCIDENT

... in the world. Young Slim rse Well, I think I've shown pretty good ju dgm ent in selecting a father-in-law, don't you? NATURE NOTES. A PHENOMENAL TREE. There is a peculiar tree the forests of Central India which has most curious characteristics. The leaves ...

Published: Saturday 26 November 1904
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 498 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

CONCERNING THE CUCKOO

... trodden upon with impunity. It is a long worm which has no turning. THE ONCOMING OF THE TIOER. Col. Yaldwyn describes in Nature Notes how a tiger approaches in the forest: At about sunset various denizens of the forest, hitherto unseen, emerge from their ...

Published: Saturday 25 July 1903
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 517 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

WIGTON ADVERTISER,-SATft&t:jE/IRUARY 12, 1910

... words to-night May be so cherished by to-morrow's light. We may be patient, for we know There's such a little way to go. NATURE NOTES. SOICITRINO LIEZ FAMILY. ♦ single oyster produces sixtesis =altos young, and if all lived and produced in their turn, by ...

Published: Saturday 12 February 1910
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 463 | Page: 3 | Tags: none