... canes, and there might technieal desertion every week, though desertion in fact. Old August,’' writes Mr Ranks in his Nature Notes from Colder Valley, has not kept up its reputation of fine summer weather. It has been extremely cold and wet betimes. ...

... t for the little ones who sing - We arc but attic children weak, Nor horn in any bigh (*tale. To-day's Nature Note: While reading the Nature Notes in your paper this week, writes Mr It. Stansfield, Ifurstwood Villa, 43, Cypress-road, Southport, I thought ...

... than Brighton, which stands at 17. Liverpool and Manchester head the list with 24 and 23 reepectivelv. o-days Nature Note: The nature notes of your correspondent, Mr 8. Banks, add great interest to a ramble in the country (writes “Cyclist ’), and make ...

... of the Christmas season, may perhaps be most fittingly described as a Dance of Death, is related by a corre spondent in Nature Notes who, on pass ing a country field a few days ago, was greatly amused at witnessing several turkeys evident!: in the act ...

... only in direct tramway communication with Blackburn on the on© hand, but with Rochdale and Oldham on the other. To-day’s nature notes: are having extremes of weather just now. One good thing —it is keeping the ground well moistened, hence the brightness ...

... a half- penny. Rats, like eome other animals, seem to have a partiality for silver. A lady correspondent, writing to ‘‘ Nature Notes,” saye: sister was staying in a lonely house in the S.W. of Ireland during August of this year. One evening the housemaid ...

... were dispersing Information to be iven at the Town Hall.—Advt 'o Corresponpents. T. N. Walker: Your letter will a r in “Nature Notes” in next Saturday’s “Blackburn Weekly Tele- gra ph MILL BREAKDOWN AT BLACKBURN. —A eerious engine breakdown at Mcesre John ...

... will have it that at the Nationa] Liberal Club reception Sir William Harcourt was given “a rousing A correspondent of “‘ Nature Notes”’ tells the story of a cat which climbed up an elm tree in Queen’s-square, Bloomsbury, where a pigeon had its nest, and ...

... the sight of cyclist, whose machine bore the reminder, printed in bold characters: Christ died for you to-day. To-day’s Nature Notes: There is joy among bird lovers to-day over the advent of the first swallow. A Blackburn tradesman residing Wilpshire reports ...

... James Hiam, of Astwood Bank, Worcester- shire. ia in the of providing some curious homes for the birds in hus tells in “‘ Nature Notes’ that last epring he ac- commodaied three pairs of robins with ordinary empty tomato tins to build in, which be placed ...

... Whitewell road, Mr Arthur Bawdon 75. Bolton-road, Blackburn, replies as follows: “Though not a regular contributor of * Nature Notes * your paper, I should like to state that as a boy it was customary for me to take a weekly journey to Clitheroe from Kemplo ...

... pation gone, no man heeding them. Northern Daily Celegraph. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 190: Table Talk Today's Nature Note: Being interested in your Nature Notes, which are always very entertaining reading (writes Mr A. Fielden, 48. Heyes-lane, Blackburn), I thought ...