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  2. A Duel Between a Bird and a Bee.

    Humming birds are numsroun in Gentral Park in summer, and around a greqat fragrant bush ladies with honoeysuckle blessoms the little creatures dart about, dipping their ...

    Article : 268 words
  3. The sun's Atmosphere.

    The actual temperature of the sun will probably never be exactly known. Amoug the numerous problems of his constitution, the nature of his atmosphere has attracted ...

    Article : 768 words
  4. The Naturalist.

    According to Linnceus, the progeny of three female flesh flies (each gives birth to 20,000 young, and a third generation is produced in a few days) would devour the car ...

    Article : 661 words
  5. Darwin a Missing Link.

    A disoovary which will probably have of immense interest to ethnologists has been made at a little hamlet of Sinaica, Mexico, within the past fow days while breaking ...

    Article : 230 words
  6. Animal Traits.

    Some novel instances of intellignence and humanlike traits in animals have recently come under our notice. A terrier dog at Yverdon, Switzerland, pays regular visits at ...

    Article : 183 words
  7. Ladies' Column'

    An Alabamn gin [?] to neath. After the laugking, which was provoked by a funny [?] to mer brother, had lasted for some time, the parents ...

    Article : 445 words
  8. The Wild Zebra.

    The zebra, when wild, is a jerocious animal and an unwary hunter is likely to suffer from its teeth and hoofs. The author of Kloof and Karro says that a boer in ...

    Article : 279 words
  9. Hood [?] Coming.

    Ladies are to be afflicted with the old time hoop sprits again, said a lashionable mediste the other day, 'just as surely as they have been emancitated from the thraldom ...

    Article : 420 words
  10. Lucky For the Mice.

    A traveller mentiors that, in crossing a plain in Africa, far distant from any stream of weater, where no cool shade refreshed him, and, as far as the eye could reach, nothing ...

    Article : 114 words
  11. A Finny Marksman.

    There is a fish which actuafly shoots its prey. This is the 'Archer' fish (Toxores jactllator), found in the Indian seas—on the coast of Asia, among the islands of the East ...

    Article : 267 words
  12. The Actions of Wounded Animals.

    The writer once shot an sntelope so as to [?]ry away the projecting upper part of one of the lumbar vortebrce, the bullst merely grazing the body of the bone. He dropped ...

    Article : 173 words
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