Show fore ng sp ders to spin certain green ants in queensland which also make their nests of leaves and flowers spun together are said to keep spiders to spin for them cheth er these latter do it spontaneously or require to be held as the larvae of the other species does not seem to have been determined in the devices 0 these ants there is surely one of na ture s hints to human inventors since the das of the spider artist in the university of lagade spider silk has been a dream the difficulty of its realization has been chiefly the pug nature of the spider which prevents them being kept together but a machine has been invented which seems to overcome the biffl culty it is described as a sort of frame containing twenty four minia ture guillotines the blunt knives of which descend on the waists of the spiders and hold them fast A num her of threads are secured together on a hook and slowly drawn out lon doa globe |