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Show N NOTED BY NATUItAilSTS. Some Insects aro born, giow old, and dlo In tho spaco of 24 hours. Buzzards and vultures can scent their food at a dlstnncoof 40 miles. Silk is produced by mora than 200 InBocts, though very fow of these nro of any practical valuo to mankind. All carnivorous animals lap up water wa-ter with tho tongue. Herbivorous anl-inals, anl-inals, as the homo and HxbMcU It up. Tho elephant lias so delicate) a sonso of smell that It can scent a human being when tho latter Is 1,000 yards ofl. Horses In their wild state live to tho ago of 3G normally, being still fairly fresh and hearty at thut ago In the desert, Tho largest Insect known to entomologists ento-mologists is a Central American moth, callod tho Erobus strlx, which expands ex-pands Its wings from 11 Incncs to 18 Inches. Thoro aro at least 112 species of California popples (Eschschouzla), according ac-cording to Dr. E. I Ureeno, who has ,ubllslicd a description of them In ' tho Juno numbor of Plttonla. 1'ho air bladder of Dalies is tho provision within their bodies which emiblea thorn to rlso or fall in tho wa-loi. wa-loi. According to thu dilation or contraction of tho bladder thny may jeguiaio tho depth In tho water at their pleasure A shark's egg Is ono of tho oddest looHlug things Imaglnablo. It is unprovided un-provided with shell, but tho contents aro prutocieil by a thick, leathery covering cov-ering almost as clastic as India rub-our. rub-our. The .oerago slzo Is two Inches Dy two and threo-fourths inches, and tho color is almost pure black. |