... NATURE NOTES. A MAMVOTH MUSHROOM. A innahroom measuring 10in. in diameter has Lek n gathered at Urmstun. BEES IN THE LAMP. A A warm of hoes took possession of • signs lamp on the Midland at Finedon, • porter having considerable trouble in removing the ...

... NATURE NOTES. THE BIGGEST ROACH. The Old Windsor waters of the Thames have yielded what is claimed to be the largest roach ever caught in that river. It fell to the rod of au angler named Edmonds, and sealed :.!tbs. I:2ozs. CANARY NOTES. German canaries ...

... NATURE NOTES. DILBERRIEB. A marked feature of the trade of the week is the fruit markets of the Midlands has been the bilberry boom. As there is a shortage in the English black currant crop the retail fruiterers buy up the cheap foreign bilberries readily ...

... NATURE NOTES. HOSKIN° AN OTTER. The Kirkcudbrightshire Adevrtiser reporie that while angling the other day on the Fleet a* Gatehouse, Mr. R. H. Macadam, Liverpool, had a singular experience, in which he broke his rod and lost his strange fish. Casting ...

... NATURE NOTES. A SPLENDID SNAKE. In the reptile house at the London Zoological Gardens there is now to be seen a remarkably large example of the Australian carpet-python. Its length is estimated at 181 t., which is said to exceed that of the largest previously ...

... NATURE NOTES. *SECT LIMY'. The lantern ay of Surinam, Sou l% Allleritll, has two sets of eyes to catch the light from all possible directions. The luminosity which glows from the head is so brilliant that ia easy to read by it. FLOW OF FLOWERS. The recent ...

... NATURE NOTES. SHEEP-KILLING GRASSES. When one been of sheep being killed by plants, it seems natural to assume that the animars deaths resulted from eating some poisonous species. Such, however, is not always the case. The glens, of • grass which grows ...

... NATURE NOTES. A GIRD THAT WAS. A believed to have become extind fa tii,• Californian condor, twice as large bal the ,J the Andes. Its length was 5 feet, pounds, and spread of wings 12 feet. •g' of .his bird is worth .1-400 to Coll or-t ors, ni,nu have ...

... NATURE NOTES. PUFFINS AND RABBITS. A singular state of things now prevails on the Fame Islands. Last year (trace Darling's brother stated that, when he was a boy on the islands. rabbits were mans and puffins few. That was the order of nature; but the ...

... NATURE NOTES , THE WEASEL'S TENACITY. In Golmbach, Brunswick, • raven was al. tacked by • weasel on the ground. The bird flew off, but the weasel stuck to its back, and after • short flighs both fell down together. The raven was dead, but the weasel unhurt ...

... NATURE NOTES. 1 QUEER FRUIT. The Karns orange of Upper India yields two kinds of fruit on the same branch, the regular crop of smooth oranges, ripe at the end of Use dry season, and the after-crop of coarse-skinned oranges, ripe at the end of the rainy ...

... NATURE NOTES. THE SUN'S Art rACTION. Trees form a rough guide to the points of the compass. The moss invariably grows thickest on the north side, and where exposed to the sun the limbs attain the largest dimensions on the aide. • A GIANT TURTLE. When ...