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  2. NATURE NOTES.

    Certain butter lines never, when apprehending danger, light on a green tree or shrub, but fly into a chump of dead leaves, and so adjust their wings on a ...

    Article : 53 words
  3. USEFUL FROGS.

    In Central Australia frogs are very common after heavy rains. As the waters dry up, the frogs retreat into their burrows till it rains again. Before doing ...

    Article : 57 words
  4. INTERESTING OWLS.

    Not the least interesting of our owls is the long-eared species, but it is shy and retiring, and by no means as easy to see in the twilight as the brown owl. ...

    Article : 108 words
  5. RAT ATTACKS GIRL

    In the dining-room of a Mr. T. Cory, butcher, Saltash, a large black rat attacked the servant girl. who, greatly frightened, ran into the kitchen, the ...

    Article : 66 words
  6. VENERABLE PARROT.

    The longevity of birds has received a new illustration in a parrot at Ludgershall, Wilts, which has begun to lay eggs at the age of 51. From one point ...

    Article : 68 words
  7. CALLED THE FLOWER OF DEATH.

    The edelweiss has been christened "the flower of death." Every season it takes its toll Last summer there were nearly one hundred deaths of would-be ...

    Article : 102 words
  8. THE VALUE OF WORMS.

    Worms are great promoters of vegetation by boring, perforating, and loosening the soil, and rendering it pervious to rains and fibres of plants, by drawing ...

    Article : 99 words
  9. A POISONOUS PLANT.

    The deadly nightshade, or belladonna atropa, which was recently responsible for the death of two small boys, is perhaps the most toxic plant indigenous to ...

    Article : 143 words
  10. WONDERS OF THE SEA.

    The quantity of light emitted by many minute deep-sea animals is so great as to supply over definite areas of the sea bottom a sufficient illumination to render ...

    Article : 62 words
  11. TRIES THEM ALL.

    The West Indies migratory crab is the only creature which is born in the sea, matures in fresh water, and passes the remainder of its days upon land. ...

    Article : 31 words
  12. EFFECT BEFORE THE CAUSE.

    In the Bay of Biscay, frequently during the autumn and winter in calm weather, a heavy sea gets up and rolls in on the coast 24 hours before the gale ...

    Article : 85 words
  13. A BEAUTIFUL BIRD.

    The possessor of a twelve-wired bird of Paradise would indeed be proud of his prize. Few are granted such distinction, for like other members of its ...

    Article : 251 words
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