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Show Spider's Wonderful Web. The spider is so repulsive as to cause a shudder in those who look upon it. and it is of no use in the world except for destruction of flies and other detestable insects, all making mak-ing for a population that no army of spiders can exterminate. The housewife house-wife and all the rest of mankind may execrate the flies, but they would rather have a million flies than one spider; yet this infinitely disgusting creation of incomprehensible nature produces a thread and with magical facility fa-cility flings it into wonderful web forms which baffle all explanation of the geometrician. Few of the curiosities of the myriad insect world are so marvelous as the spinning of the spider and the silkworm. silk-worm. Many attempts have been made to utilize the spider for the production produc-tion of silk, but the worm remains the almost absolute monopolist, though artificial silks are made from cotton and other material by an expensive treatment which are claimed to be equal to the real article in lustei and elasticity. |