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... THINGS THOUGHTFUL. I NATURE NOTES. In a gun factory • great bar el steel. weighing live hundred pounds, and eight feet in length, was suspended vertically by a very delicate chain. Near by • common bottle cork was suspended by a silk thread. The purpose ...
... NATURE NOTES. A Nsw For more than half a century It bra bees understood that the lateral line of seale along each side of in connected to a specie: ;mire. Experiments seem to show that their chief function is the perception of water currents. They supply ...
... NATURE NOTES. A. LAROR The animal possessing the largest heart is the Greenland whale Its heart is one yard in diameter, and niore than three yards round the largest i.art. ...
... NATURE NOTES. A Three hundred quarts of maple sugar asp in 24 hours is the record of an coortnous maple tree in Mass., U.S.A. Although this wonderful tree is one or two ceuturies old it still surpasses of its competitors. The tree measures 14ft. in c ...
... NATURE NOTES. AD Do animals commit suicide? There is an belief to the effect that an adder swallows young in case of danger, and ancient write, tell on it was • habit among seorpioni to dig their stings into their heads when unahh• to escape from fire ...
... NATURE NOTES. A Lao, What is probably the first white leopard recorded form Africa was shown at the German Sporting Exhibition, recently held ia Berlin. It was shown by Mr. Otto Bock, and is known to have been killed near Dares.Salaaux. The ground-colour ...
... NATURE NOTES. nr Sum . Suture. While sinking a well just outside • town In Melia), a subterranean stream of water was disco%ered at a depth of two hundred and forty feet, out of which were taken hundreds of little fish about an inch in length. As no stream ...
... his, sea oil NATURE NOTES, MIAD DOWNWARDS. The butterfly, like the bat, invariably to sleep bead downward, Am eyes straight down the stem of the gram on which it rests. It folds its wings to tW..,,atmost, and thus wraps its body from the cold. • MOUTIMUL ...
... NATURE NOTES. CAN FIRN 111 TAMED? A Swiss doctor been making experiments with a view to ascertaining whether can bc tamed. For this, ho stood motion. less for (lays in the pond where he bathed. Pinally, the fish would come and take out of his hand, and ...
... NATURE NOTES. WHIM Bun ARM LAZY. The bee of Mexico does aot improve *sob shining hour. - As there is very little cold weather there, no necessity exists for laying in winter Etoree of hooey, and the bee is, therefore, rather lazy than otherwise. TR' ...
... NATURE NOTES. --•••—. • Livz • FWD insects that hams to yezrs In the preparati,ry stages onlj a ft.o boon alter they ban, /Maine porfoe Baas oit LADY'S Foci. Whilst Richards, of Maim. Cornwar. , nas watching her bees, a swarm suddetil sett:ed on her face ...
... THINGS THOUGHTFUL J NATURE NOTES. There is always light enone ha to_ the N ATvaz . lent step in daily lite right. t is, there is I always light enough for practical pit / The air-tight compartment theory of build. and for the present moment, in whi c ...