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  2. Advertising

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  3. GLEANINGS IN NATURAL HISTORY. SURPRISING AND UNACCOUNTABLE INSTINCT OF HOGS

    It is about four years since Mr L—s, of New Norfolk, purchased two sucking-pigs from Mr W—s. The sons of the former went and brought the pigs from the mother in a bag, and conveyed them 'home, some three or four miles ...

    Article : 835 words
  4. A PRE-ADAMITE CATERPILLAR.

    In December last, a man employed in opening a new colliery at Northop, near Hawerden, Flintshire, brought up a piece of solid coal It happened to get broken, when a shell was discovered inside containing a live caterpillar[?] We ...

    Article : 143 words
  5. A CURIOUS PET

    There is in the possession of Mr Chism of Ballysbannon a ram so domesticated that it lives about the house like a favourite dog, knows any member of the family, and will distinguish them from amongst a number of persons. If ...

    Article : 142 words
  6. THE LIFE OF OYSTERS

    Oysters lead, on the whole, as is well known, a tolerably quiet lite; but even they cannot get through this life without their troubles. Now they are attacked by a kind of starfish that lies watching till they open their shell to take in ...

    Article : 220 words
  7. THE MAGPIE AND THE RING

    On Thursday last (says the Aberdeen Herald), a magpie flew into the open window of a dressing-room at Skene House, and ingeniously contrived to pick a ring, belonging to Lady Agnes Duff, from the upright stalk of a ring-stand, ...

    Article : 193 words
  8. ANIMALCULES

    Part VIII of Orr's "Popular Cyclopaedia of Natural Science" is occupied with a copious description of some of the lower forms of animal life. The details of experiments made on different kinds of animalcules are especially ...

    Article : 342 words
  9. CRUELTY TO ANIMALS

    Cruelty to dumb animals is one of the distinguishing vices of the lowest and basest of the people. Wherever it is found, it is a certain mark of ignorance and meanness; an intrinsic mark, which all the external advantages of ...

    Article : 131 words
  10. THE WOLF ON HIS DEATH-BED

    The Wolf lay in his last agonies, and cast a retrospective glance on his past life. "I am a sinner, it is true," he said, "but still I hope not one of the worst. I have indeed, done evil, but then I have also done good; for instance, I ...

    Article : 159 words
  11. SUPREMACY OF THE HUMAN ANIMAL

    The fear which all wild animals in America have of man is very singularly seen in the Pampas. I often rode towards the ostriches and gamas crouching on the opposite side of my horse's neck; but I always found that, although ...

    Article : 385 words
  12. CURIOUS INSTANCE OF SAGACITY IN A HORSE

    It has been said that "preservation is the first law of nature," and never was that proverb more strikingly or more curiously illustrated than in the case of a horse a few days ago. A contractor on the railway at Sparkford bought ...

    Article : 578 words
  13. RATS.

    A correspondent of The Critic, who dates from Gloucester has supplied the following:—"An itinerant vender of small wares, who finding the small profits she derived from her vocation made it impossible tor her to hire lodgings, had ...

    Article : 676 words
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