Show HOW tarantulas there was recently received in denver for store full grown tarantula one of the brown and the other of the black variety the brown fellow was caad in a common cigar and the baiek one in a glass jar aa the could not be exhibited to advantage HI of this kind and as they were not very pleasant company IP have about loose a box af most two feet square wath a glass top was procured on the bottom of which a layer was spread to make the animals feel at home the cover was then drawn and the two spiders pitched into it aiom their separate canes no sooner did the gnp discover the other s presence than they rushed at each as viciously as two panthers and immediately closed in a dead ly embrace I 1 hey cam together with a bound and then twining their long hairy lees about each other i oiled over and over in the sand biting each other savaged i ind then tugging each with all their cf fight as it endeavoring to crush each other by sheer muscular power aa it may seem thia sort was dept up for six hours during moat ol 01 which time it could not be seen that either was gain ing the slightest advantage aa neither showed any disposition to end except by the deith of his adversary black ono succumbed and rolled over dead on the and while tho victor immediately proceeded to reap the spoils of his long battle ilia vanquished enemy in his stout bornt or cincera pin cera or whatever contrivance be has for that purpose he rapidly toro him limb from liiro and coolly proceeded in arno cannibalistic to make a apal of him in i very clort time nothing was left of him except a little pile of legs and pieces of shell to mark the spot where ono tarantula had fallen and another had dined |