Show A RAIN OF SPIDER WEBS its IN tho the latter part of october tho the rood good 1 of wix win and tho the neighboring ten tonij AS were by a general fall of webs tho the wooi webs seemed to come from 11 over tho the lake and appe appeared ired to fall fail from A great height iho strands vero nera from two ctet to several rods in length at green day bay tho the fall WM was tho the same bamo coming from the iho direction of the bay only the vil acha oba varied from lusty feet IQ ill length to mere bi bilecka lecks and were seen as lor far up dp in fit tho the air na as the p power ower of tho the eye could reach at and fort now ard sheboygan and Ozol ikee the fall sas HM imil nily obier observed ved ia n some omo fiftena being eo 60 thick no to aline annoy tho the co lo 10 a nil all instances the in texture and my abito listo there ta Is no mention moo tion in ia any ot of tho the reports that wo As have seen of at tho the presence of spiders in ia thin control shower of ucb it is tobe to bo hoped that some oom corn potent olo server IN is soma omo ono who has bm mado made a andy study of spiders anti and their habits was wall at load band and ft ill report moro Ppe cill cally the iho conditions condl tiong at 0 thial tor cating pho a number of notable go goumer asimer showers havo have been reported in different parts of the world vi tuto in lus his history of cliborne Sl SLI bome borne in one of them the fall fail continued nearly it a whole day tho the ebs coming train from such a height that from tho the top of tho the bill benr by they were seen KOCH deac descending ending from a region baill above tho the range of distinct dision darwin describes A similar shower ob cb served by him bim train from llo deck of tho the beagle I 1 off tho the mouth of la rista river r hen tho the vessel WAS wall sixty miles front from land lie ile wim wait probably the airet to notice that each web of tho the gossamer carried a lilliputian Lilliput tan aero out ho watched etched A tho the elli ellidore dors on their or nr avol and saw many of them put forth a now dow ob and froit away the behavior of tho the boa setting out upon their aanal TO ago has hag beau minutely desen bcd by a recent luelah observer tto shower observed by him bim oo on covione in september afdera thunder storm without rate raia ito iri says aya about ten ta A AM X I 1 noticed email spi sailors lors running over my coot coat el coTOs and had to brugh off several trails of gosA arnor web looking round I 1 found that brick w A ilia houses bout ca branches of trees alc ot lad these weba front from them and that other T tr ammor we aclis a acro continually falling irom 0 in above and adding to the by midday A long tonce ana As festooned festoon ed from point to point of its triangular rail topo top with A ribbon like lika lad ladder of it frossa and this was growing crowing boost broader der and broader aji 03 tho the tiny creatures kept pt running annin along thin each increasing the broadeth liy by adding its own contribution of another silken throop cia assembling next tin nn iron aLling near I 1 found it ft in all a similar condition with vita tho the tops of the iron connected by a vibrating 0 of goil learn e r in oina bolna omen early at an melt inell baoust all ali A alou long this balder the little tamil I 1 ig if in ni ali and hunick in naner as 09 UE if they bad lot their way and had got aiuto ito vs cal lutry rome in holi ovi ov r their rood rond made into taken takoma and rot got into bortl ering u oba of the iho giordan ciscro they were speedily do aured about one ill off air the sun un abone out ant I 1 noticed that some omo of tho the fijor had begun to reas caud into to liao atinoff phero they ilcy lao bao thui this earlier j but on visor that soma were all 11 my iny attention was wall devoted to esla pi d cro and this ibis is wits whytt I 1 saw gaw fixing my eyes upon one ODO of thoro them I 1 observed obi abat a ad it left tile gossamer pat ho ey it at lecter a cleam spot on tho the iron rail agan mal 4 gathering I 1 ato is cloudy closely it projected from rom i ita to il threads which ex cz banded outward and arct upward froni from i nine to twili 0 inches 1 hen aliu to show a tendency and the tiny cicat tira ical bold of the iron tel rail i or WAS lift lifted d aff it and bed into thin air onu ono after another I 1 olony arched A with tho sumo soma central result though once or twice when tho the spider lt bat tha roil rail it looted for ca few seconds sisin la tin an horizontal horis direction anor to changing it for nn an approximately verti vernierd erd one they however dest appeared from ko do quickly thal out abo lae haro at 0 be cent t could only bo be guessed tit thu how air crar rony rally bo be ret act down as aj ilia rule aj at from ninety loo to buo ouo handled and iwic ftc Allu ameriki Ameri wi |