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Show l M;;ito-i p;,ir. ' " Tn? weather wss beautiful, not a brcp.Vii of r:v -r?.? stirring, and the attention atten-tion -if tit? 7''ds of iis place was nt-t-acl-'l b.- v. -'nz ut Jrs; looked like ft snnll fio'.v-. lib tirger 'Jir.n a mi'n'i: lu.ni1., I lowdovm i.! ii horizon, oti To northwest north-west eiite ol tlie city. As huniIro'5 w.-re wr.'.ohi:ig it, it grew larj.--'-r end h;rgcr, u-.itU i" too': on the semblanca of a bas-oi' Cog 1,000 feet loDg r.nd several fc:b thick. It floated along in a slow, j2iet way, but at times would bond and squirm about in a most uncaimy fashion. After it had rcrcf ined quite stationary in the air for some "ittlo time it began to slowly settle to the? 'trth. A great many people, who had attracted by the e trim go eight, went out of the town, and, as the 6tra.nge visitation came nearer and nearer to terra, lirma, it was seen to be a gigantic spider web, fairly clivo with spiders. There must have been 00,000,-000 00,000,-000 of them, and after hovering over the ground for about five minuteft it finally : settled and broke into thousands of pieces. I The moment the web broke tho insects j disentangled themselves and struck , across the country in all directions, some on the ground and some on little frag-! frag-! ments of tho web, which floated along ' slowly a few feet above the grass, and ; each little piece fairly alive with spiders. The sight drew a great crowd, which quickly scattered when the visitors began to scramble toward them, j Thousands of them came to the ont-i ont-i skirts of the city, where they caused the inhabitants great alarm. They were in all sizps, from that of the ordinary flea to half an inch in length, and tho way they got over the ground, tumbling over , each other as they went, was u caution. By noon they had all disappeared, going go-ing in the direction of the Merced river, and not a vestige of the great web re-j re-j mained. Alerced (Cal.) Letter. |