... Table Talk. To-day’s Nature Note: Some of the papers report to«day that the nightingale has been heard singing at Grasmere. It may be hoped it is true, as there is a poetic fitness in sweet Philomel holding court amid scenes, which Wordsworth has hallowed ...

... especially at the festive season of Christmas and New Year. Presents and good wishes abound and each member of the family naturally notes the best, cheapest, and choicest place for their purchase. Shaw's, the tea- men, of „ The Arcade, and Lord street (opposite ...

... THE EDITOR’S POST-BAG. NOTES FROM NORFOLK. Sir,— T am spending a few days’ holiday in my native county, and thought a nature note would interest many of your countless readers: £ There is slill much corn to be carted, a work | necessarily slow when September ...

... The propo-id it-dm-I:MI Will ClOilik• up to: 1011 when the annual Ittolgrt will be submitted to the Couticil l‘sday's Nature Note: ;'ho forward move in this world of vegetation (writes J.W.11.. I Blackburn i. a Blow one, but despite the bitterly cold ...

... banisb idleness. To encourage kindness and love for animals. We give a hearty welcome to the Club to all who share our aims. NATURE NOTE: THE DIPPER A bird which attracts ranch 'attention on the river's is the dipper—or water crow, as it is called in Scotland ...

... next week that sericus business will start again. To-day Mr 8. Banks, the Todmorden naturalist, supplements his occasional Nature Note with the news that he has seen the swallow. Having tasted this rare delight, he is now cracking his ear drums to hear the ...

... tween Lord De Ramsey, Custos Rotulorium of the Isle of Ely, and the Lord Chancellor! To-day's Nature Note: T have been out regarding the case which Mr Neil Primrone‘“‘-mi“ in the open (writes K. G., Burnley), has brought under the notice of the (iov-: ...

... at the j festive season of Christmas and New Year. j Present? and good wisher- abound and each member of the family naturally notes the best, cheapest, and choicest plare for their purchase. Shaw's, the tea- men, of h. The Arcade, and Lord-street (opposite ...

... expressed a wish to speak that no little difficulty is being experienced by the organisers in making arrangements. To-day's Nature Note: The “gentle as a Jlamb ' idea is seriously discounted by an THE ALBERT MEDAL. ; incident recorded in the * Scotsman” this| ...

... Table Talk. To-day’s Nature Note: The remarkably mild | weather, accompanied by moderate sunshine, is calling the early flowers into bloom. From Mr Joseph Lomax, 15, Tontine-street, Blackburn, we received this morning various flowers packed in bright ...

... stillness reigns around ; The ploughman's team, the thrasher's flail, The woodman's axe — their clamours cease,— And only nature's notes prevail, To humble bosoms echoing peace. The Sabbath Bell! the Sabbath Bell! How sweet on ears devout it falls ; White ...

... intimated her intention of visiting Wales next year, when she desires to be present at the annual Eisteddfod. . To-day's Nature Note: In his weekly note Mr S. Banks, of Portsmouth, near Tod, morden. opens with a reference to the un' folding leaf in the ...