| Show dancing of pet A young lady living near monroe la has a pair of pet wasps that she lias trained to do various tricks requiring remarkable intelligence among other things she has taught them to drink water from a and to perform the skirt dance as she calls it by fluttering wings as they rest in the palm of lier liand they will sing at her bidding making a faint almost inaudible cheep and seem to be passionately fond of music the young lady is u musician and when she plays on the piano the wasps take up their positions on the music rack and never audgo till the performance is over the wasps seem to have a good deal of vanity and nothing dp lights them more than to be allowed to about and inspect themselves on a little hand mirror which is kept for their exclusive use strange to relate the wasps have never been known to attempt to sting anybody althou gli they have free access to all parts of the house and are seldom confined even at night |
