| Show NATURAL HISTORY A salmon weighing 50 pounds was 00 lit in the bolway scotland lately ere is reported to bo a dwarf willow growing on the summit ot ben lomond in scotland the full height of which is two inches AT french has experimented with bis bees as carriers of dispatches one difficulty ot the beo service ia that insects will not return over a distance of more than two or three miles according to the oroville cal reg bater there is a gigantic fig tree in tb yard of B tucker 0 tit place the roots of which have filled the bottom of bis well which is thirty two feet deep G W dunn the california naturalist baa collected over insects belonging to tho horn winged family of the cricket tribe and about butterflies and numberless rare plants and animals twelve thousand silk worms when newly hatched scarcely one ter lot an ounce yet in the course of their life which lasts only about thirty five day theli il consume between and pounds of leaves tha longest fiber blown at the present time is that of silk A cocoon of a well fed silk worm will often yield 1000 yards long and in one instance one has been produced which con talked 1295 yards without a break corea has its seven wonders among is a hot spring believed to cure all dise ses two sprats of which one ia full and the other empty and vice versa a cavern from which a wintry wind perpetually blows a forest cannot be destroyed and a drop of the sweat of buddha ko blants grow within thirty paces of this drop there is now eaid ito be no animal or bird in the new york central park menagerie that doe snot eat peanuts many species in the cages were much averse to peanuts but the persistence of the children in forcing them upon every creature there has had such an effect that even the lions and pelicans and everything except the snakes have felt obliged to acquire the peanut habit |
