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Show A New Blind Worm. Among the other interesting addresses which were made at tho meeting of the Academy of Natural Sciences the other evening was one by Professor Edward D. Cope on a peculiar species of blind worm, a new variety discovered in the south. It is a curious subterranean little thing with almost invisible eyes, and it is found in the nests of ants and termites, ter-mites, on which it feeds. The scientific namo for the family is chirotidae, and Professor Cope has named the new vari- j ety Euchirotes biporas, as two pores near j tho tail distinguish it from other species, spe-cies, as docs also the fact that it has an- j terior but no posterior legs. Professor Cope also talked about the lungs of snakes of different species, some having two lungs, some only one, and others, especially the venomous kinds, showing scarcely any signs of lungs at all. Philadelphia Press. Apropos of the canonization of Joan of Arc by the church of Rome comes the canonization of a Mr. Collins by a church of colored Episcopalians in South Carolina, Caro-lina, The circumstance which led to this rather remarkable result was the donation by Mr. Collins of a house of worship to the congregation. Thereupon the church was called St. Collins' church in grateful recognition of the generosity of the donor. It is the first example ok record of the elevation of a living American Amer-ican to the sainthood. Chicago Herald. Rev. Mary A. Safford of the Unitarian church of Sioux City offered prayer in the Iowa house of representatives one morning not long ago. |
