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Show QUEER THINCS. Some Ncjtabla Ciirlo.illai Ttiat May ba 1' ouad. St. T.mil.i nopnbiM. French scientists arc puzzling over a spider that was discovert d in a cavity iu a stone. It is estimated that tho stone must bo at least 4001) years old. Notwithstanding this, however, the spider is quite lively and very youthful iu its antics. It is blind aud has 110 liiotiih, Crows aro commonly said to live for ItW) years, and turtles arc reported to liavn even long -r life, but if flu; I:i!c Professor Baird be rU;ht, the greatest longevity is pos:-e-.sed by INiios. I'm-feor I'm-feor liaird once said that us a lish has 11.1 maturity tin re is nothing to prevent it living in lelinkely and growing eiin-tinuatly. eiin-tinuatly. llo cited, in )uoof, a pike in llu-isia whose- age is kuov, a to date back I to t lie fifteenth century. In thnKoyal Aquarium at St. Petersburg Peters-burg there aro hundreds of lish that were put iu moro than 100 years ago. It is said by scientists that lishcs and nioliiisks living at a depth of more than three miles under water have to bear a pressure of several ton.1, the weight being be-ing that of tho superincumbent' l.vine, which exerts its power from ali sides. Tho reason they aro ablo to bear this tremendous weight is because they have exceedingly loose tissues, which allow tbo water tb How through every interstice, inter-stice, thus equalizing I ho weight When the pressure is removed they die almost instantly. There is a horso on James Me-Cloiid's Me-Cloiid's farm in South Dakota that has eight feet, otherwise it is perfectly formed iu every respect. Mot until the fetlock joint is' reached in tho descent from the shoulder to the foot is there any dilTcrcncc between this horse and any other. At the pastern joint, however, how-ever, tho branch begins, and two perfectly per-fectly formed hooss are found on each of t ho four legs. cpWithin tho Antartic Circle there has never been found a (lowering plant. In tho Artie regions tbero aro i(J different species of flowers. Eifty of this number aro really polar thiwcrs of varied colors; the rcin.iihder aro almost eoloriess, being be-ing mainly of a yellowish hue. |