Show THE WOODCOCKS AND THE WORMS they imitated th sound of haia on the ground ui the jonm cua up forest and ahen the moon rose I 1 took a position near one of the moist places where the bolings borings were freshest and moat plentiful anil awaited developments for a long time the bright light of the moon fell full upon the spot I 1 wished to observe and I 1 could see everything with the utmost plainness at about 8 a woodcock dropped down silently beside the brook present ly another bird walked out of the shadow and joined it both began to bore for worms au operation I 1 had never seen before and a cu grioua performance it wai the birds would rest their bills upon the mud and stand in this position for several seconda as if listening then with a sudden swift move acut they would drive the bill its entire length in the soil hold it so fur a second and then as swiftly withdraw it though I 1 watched the birda carefully with the glass I 1 could not the presence of a worm in their bills when they were withdrawn but the subsequent gave me the clue to their method ot ceding alter having hired over a considerable fitce of brounda gro unda square foot or more they proceed eil to execute what bookel comi cally like a war bauce upon tho perforated territory they also occasionally tapped the ground with the tips of their wings my anten e curiosity to know the utility of this wai at length gratified by seeing a worm craft I 1 half length from one of the boeringa bo ringa when it was immediately pounced upon and devoured by one of the woodcock presently another worm made its appearance and BO ou until the two woodcock had devoured as many as a dozen of them then llie vein seemed exhausted and the birds took their leave I 1 have subsequently studied the philosophy of this method of dig ging bait and have come to the conclusion that certain birds are a great deal wiser than certain bipeds without feathers if you will take a sharpened slick and drive it into the ground a number of times in a spot which is prolific with worms and then tap on the ground with the slick for a few minutes you will find that the worms will come to the surface and that they will come up through the boles which you have made I 1 account for it by the supposition that the tapping of the suck somehow affects the worms the same as the patter of rain and it N a well known fact that worms conce to the surface of the ground whoa it rains the antics of the woodcock after they had made bolings borings bo rings then were simply mimetic and intended to delude worms into the belief that it was raining in the upper world the worms being deceived up and were devoured all this may seem lous hut if it is not true will some naturalist please state bow a wood cock can grasp and devour a worm when its bill is confined in a solid tight etting tunnel of soil and also how it is enabled to know the exact spot where it may sink its bill and strike the worm and further of all those who nave seen a woodcock sk feeding how many ever saw it withdraw a worm from tle ground wilh its bill loves set 1 beus A pretty little romance that it one promised to work like a charm haa been knocked into in nocuous desuetude in the college hill A dashing beau aid G year oli belle some time aeo took it into their head to get ma ried but the batters lat mamma d kl not want the dashing beau for a bon in law and instantly objected for some time the lovers have watched for the opportune tuny which seemed to present itself yesterday afternoon in an unguarded moment main ma went shopping but no sooner was she out ot sight than the young lady notified her adonis that the coveted had come adonis hastily procured proc ired a license aud with his love repaired to the home of a mutual friend half a mile distant A preacher was brought in and the trembling couple were on the floor in the act of taking the solemn vows when in dahedl mamma A akely acene followed the fulka were dead bent on matrimony while alie girla head was set the other way the argument was short sharp and decisive and ended in the complete triumph of the prospective law and the total dia of adonis ahu went home the english language for ita lack of words to express ins feel ings the young lady was returned in tears to the parental roof hot enough to cook eggs SM there are a large number of cheerful prevaricators in tennessee and some very good story tellers but it has been left to a well known freight on the western and atlantic railway who makes regular trips ia and out of chattanooga to tell the biggest hot weather etory yet recorded so far this summer one day this week while his train was moving lazily along beneath the boiling hot sun with the scintillating rays coming in a slant at a side window of his caboose and playing on the black oilcloth covering of a seat near by a sudden thought hashed through lis mind although the heat was BO oppressive that a man would have been ex curable for refusing to think a thought he received an inspiration as it were from the hot and he proceeded to carry it out the inspiration he happened to have a backet of fresh eggs in the caboose which he bad bought at ft ft ay station fur bis wife and taking occasional glanceau at the basket he became desperately derpera tely hungry so he waltzed over to the basket and securing a nica freih looking egg placed iton the black cushion in the eun and waited developments his experiment proved a success for while be stood anxiously watching the development of the schema the eggshell cracked and the egg was cooked having been on the hot cushion but fifteen minutes he repeated the experiment a number ol 01 jimca with the same success and produced the eggshells egg shells to prove it ilie conductor still holda his position on the Weste inand atlantic as the superintendent has heard the etory kio janeiro ang in ant carter of the bulf quarantine island miff to general hamilton 0 the marlou Loa service under date of d that the norwegian bark arrived uio janeiro on the ad with a crew of sixteen members all of bhrim acro v ell fight of tho crew however had been alck a rio janeiro with yellow faver one of the sailors ak ere landed and the vea eel was quarantined and dis infected |