... about twelve years ago, and had two manuals, great and choir, she compass being 0 0 to C (the lower octave short,) the natural notes ebony, and the fiats and sharps white. The black keys at this date were worn quite hollow from use. The great organ contained ...

... drunk would. perhaps. give odes« to bar onsitive coal; but he was certainly I in that condition which mania • ((corgis'' Nature note endinate,and an nature non ditfinalt to coat Ito did not mope without injury ; bat the injury mu terativly light to wbat ...

... She is young and handsome, gases at von with limpid blue eyes, and speaks in tones of gentle sympathy. Her observer naturally notes her beautiful hair. It wavy and black; and, with true artistic sense, Mrs. Tweedie arranges it in what has been described ...

... it much harder to say not at home, or call in.' to a lady than to one of their own sex. This the authorities have naturally noted, and we need not he surprised if we find the business of rate-collecting entrusted almost entirely to persuasive maids ...

... wheat is summarily disposed of in as article by Mr. William Carruthers in the new number of the Seaborne Society's organ Nature Notes. Many persons have heard of the grains of wheat which were taken out of the mammy coffin belonging to the Duke of Sutherland ...

... THE MOLOCH OF FASHION. Nature Notes prints an appeal to the clergy which has just been trued by the Society for the Protection of Birds. It is from the pen of Mr. W. H. Hudson, and one passage runs: In the case of some species of birds which are being ...

... HOME RULE IN THE NEST. Mr. H. J. Ormerod, in Nature Notes, refers to the natural pugnaciousness of the young jackdaw. Watching a family of jackdaws. he found the young one turning out the parent, seizing him by the throat end shaking him with indignation ...

... low working dimensions arebot6det.bylte cis expenses enables the company to adopt very low faun. Mg. G. A. contributes to Nature Notes chatty account of forestry in Germany, where more than 2,1 per cent. of the land is covered with trees. In Prussia at per ...

... speed at which the northern blue-throat (declared to have only moderate powers of flight ) migrates. It gets, he says in Nature Notes from Egypt to Heligo- land iu a spring night of barely nine hours. The Virginian plover makes 6:16 miles an hour in it ...

... same cause at the Zoological Gardens. ONE of the great enemies of the overland telegragh line in Central Australia (says Nature Notes) is the continua green frog. In order to save the insulators from being broken by the lightning they are provided with ...

... BIRD VENGEANCE. A writer in Nature Notes describes an amusing encounter between a large swan and a little brown duck. The duck had apparently insulted the swan by trying to cross its path, for it was suddenly seised by the swan and held under the water ...

... flora in the world which fa more dainty in its localism than that of South Africa. The Cape Peninsula. for example, says Nature's Notes, has a flora much more distinct from that of the Karroo, less than 100 miles away, than the vegetation of England is ...