... NATURE NOTES. AM UNDESIRABLE ALIEN. A live locust, two inches long, with blown wing covers marked with black, baa been caught in Leeds market. ...

... NATURE NOTES, COAST WILDFOWL. Wildfowl are reported to be numerous along the Essex, Kentish, Norfolk, and Suffolk coasts, where excellent feeding grounds are obtainable in the estuaries and creeks of the Thames, Blackwater, Deben, Crouch, Tare, Stour ...

... NATURE NOTES. 4 am fo* aumiEit. Oh! for oae those good, oM-bsUona* rammers (sighs writer is tin “Westminster Gazette”) to put new spirit in us. when flowers and fruit os their proper seasons and not six weeks lata—if at all: when Britain craw her own ...

... NATURE NOTES. MUMMY WHEAT. Many people still believe, as did the ancient Egyptians, that wheat thousands years old germinate if sown. Experiments have been conducted Kew Gardens with what is known “mummy wheat” —that is, wheat found the cases of ancient ...

... NATURE NOTES. . INSECTS AND FLOWERS. .. . Most people would accept it »e aa the ootoor ot flowers was to attract j-t—y. ud to further the process of croutollination by which many flowers surrire; his theory, which had the support of Darwin, ami BornweL ...

... NATURE NOTES. HARVEST OF EEU. Over four tons of eels he«B «i»P«cne« from Thorpe, in the Fens, within last few days, to London. They were of a trench being cut the sea order set free the Sped wnter. local fishermen industnously set inter cepting the fish ...

... NATURE NOTES. 1 i , , . SOMETHING LIKE AN EGG. egg weighing s}oz., and measuring eight inches in circumference, has been laid Nottingham hen. A WONDERFUL CAVE. One of the largest caves ever explored has recently been discovered on Lime Fork Creek, in ...

... NATURE NOTES. HE LIKEO NEW-LAID EGOS. Some friends of on« of our readers keep fowls, a clog, which has been in the habit of riming loose. After the birds had started laying the owners could not imagine why they suddenly stopped. Judge of their surprise ...

... NATURE NOTES. A MAMMOTH MUSHROOM. A mushroom meuuriitg lOin. is flirniMitof baa been gathered Urmaton, BEES IM THE LAMP. A swarm of beea took poasaaaion of aigna lamp on the Uidlend line at Fiaedoa, porter having considerable trouble in removing the insects ...

... nature NOTES. COWARD SHARKS. „ . The cowardice of rimrka. i» Siftings ”) the yto^ngdw^ always in partisn half ■. “t water, that they , and thus frighten sway mnng natives foolishly oatadre® , *l*ben there and forget* to keep hi* is a swish, the man-eater ...

... NATURE NOTES. SINGING INSECTS. Among the natural curiosities of Japan are its singing insects. The moat prised of these tiny musicians is black beetle named “sasumushi,’’ which means “insect bell.” The sound that it emits resembles that of little silver ...

... NATURE NOTES. CANNIBAL FIELD NICE. Perhaps, in proportion to its i'.xe, the shrew the most ferocious and pugnacious animal known to science, not excluding the formidable of Madagascar. The daily combats of shrewa magnified 6ft. scale would more than Homeric ...