Show toe THE wondern WONDERS OP OF TH THE vald vaid ls this world is full of wonder slonie known no wn aud a great many more moro chaure bd being 9 dist diso discovered every day and yet thel their anu number aber may be reckoned as legion the teles telescope copt reveals untold wanders 1 f 1 the meat geat great mii wil universe verse in which our wor world 4 is but u t asa aa a grain of sand when compared to others the microscope in inita its turn is one of f the great agents which aids in discovering a host of wonders I 1 in the insect world these statements are proved by the following facts which have been discovered by various means it is bald said that the receives new life from the knife that is lifted to destroy it the fly spider is known to lay an egg as large as itself the caterpillar ter tor pillar illar is said to have four thousand ang and forty one muscles in its little body in the eye of a drone fourteen thousand m mirrors have hove been discovered and the respiration of a carp is produced by no less than thirteen thousand three hundred arteries vessels veins etc the thread of a spider is formed of four thousand other threads which come out of as many minute holes in its body spiders no bigger than a grain ofsan of sand band have been discovered with the microscope which pin threads BO so fine that it takes four thousand of them to equal in size a single hair ants are known to travel in swarms several miles in length and of great width over large tracts of land and their path pal is marked by barren tracts which they have stripped of all vegetable life during their journey prenters Printers 1 ink |