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Show So far as the audience was concerned, Von Bulow always made a point of doing do-ing exactly as he pleased. On one occasion occa-sion when a Leipzic audience insisted on recalling him in spite of his repeated refusal to play again he came forward and said, "If you do not stop this applause, ap-plause, I will play all Bach's 48 preludes pre-ludes and fugues from beginning to nd. " San Francisco Argonaut Scorpions. The natives of Lucca, in Italy, aisert that the Bcorpion will destroy itself if -exposed to a sudden light and a writer In Nature 6aid that his informant and I ler friends, while residing during the summer months at the baths of Lucca, were much annoyed by the intrusion of small black scorpions into the house and their being secreted among the bedclothes, bed-clothes, in shoes and in other articles of dress; that they soon became adepts in catching the 6corpions and disposing of them in the manner suggested. "This consisted in confining the animal under an inverted drinking glass or tumbler below which a card was inserted when the capture was made and then waiting till dark, suddenly bringing the light of a candle near to the glass in which the animal was confined. No sooner. was this done than the Bcorpion invariably showed signs of great excitement running run-ning round and round the interior of the tumbler with reckless velocity for a number of times. ' 'This state having lasted for a minute ' or more, the animal suddenly became quiet and turning its tail, or the hinder i part of its body, over its back, brought its recurved sting down upon the middle mid-dle of the head, and piercing it forcibly In a few seconds became quite motionless, motion-less, and, in fact, quite dead. This observation ob-servation was repeated very frequently in truth, it was adopted as the best plan of getting rid of the pests, and the , ... young people were in the habit of han dling them with impunity immediately iter they were so killed and of preserving preserv-ing many of them as curiosities. " It is known that scorpions kill themselves ' , whan snrmnnd4 bv . X ' ' ' ' -w.r,.Apis1-. ---i ,-- 1 num, 1 1 m f H w |