Show science science is gradually penetrating the mysteries of nature and disclosing the wonders thereof it is a matter of common knowledge among naturalists natura lists that bee butterflies moths and other insects have a peculiar habit of breathing through the under portion of their bodies but it remained for professor biet bleb more of new york to explain why theba thesa creatures were BO pao constructed the mouth ja is of no use to them except as a means of taking tak tab ing food so that if they have influenza or asthma they must nece necessarily harily have it down on their bodies where the disease will not make their breath offensive to their fellows the head heau of a fly we are told ia Is used only for the purpose of carrying around his eyes and a sort of suction pump which he brings to bear on bald heads the professor is at a loss to know of if what usa use a fly is in the economy of nature on the other hand the pres presence euce ence of vast quantities of flies mess he holdi is in a great measure the reason why civilization liza tion makes no more rapid strides in africa the wasp has a good deal more common sense than ohe che by fly he cares more for the comforts com forta noria or of life and lives in better style the professor has dissected a number of wasps nests and finds that they are a series of 41 flats as regularly arranged as any of the structures that have become fashionable as places of abode in cities with this difference that the main entrance id sat gat at the cellar its advantages over human habitations are ate that there is plenty of ventilation and between the apartments occupied by the families are prom promenades ennies and avenues eo no regularly laid out ont that there is ample room for old and young to move about without c coming om ing into collision or fam family ily lly quarrels qu arrela the paper like covering of the house hoube is for protection from the weather and the infects which would otherwise annoy the wasps otherwise to keep out the flies the beetle bays saya the professor Is a body snatcher he buries bunies himself in the sand and leaves protruding two formidable jaws jews with which he is provided these he extends and when an ant crawling along falla over the edge of the precipice into the capacious ready to receive it that ends his the professor tells how the child of or a white miller might easily upset the silk industry of the world I 1 when the cater oater caterpillar pOlar prepares to wind itself la in its ita death shroud and become a cocoon it throws out a I 1 thread ao eo regularly and perfectly thatis that it can bo be unwound after the caterpillar becomes a larva if the catero caterpillar illar should adopt the habits of soine some of his less regularly constituted brothers and sisters and throw off a tangled or a flatly cocoon the silk trade would be ruined and one of the questions which agitate tariff reformers would be eliminated from the many that they have to consider |