LAYING EGGS ON TIME 



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given to a visitor is that the problems are 

 quickly being" solved and that here will 

 be one of the most novel and picturesque 

 lakes covering about a dozen acres and 

 with a permanent depth of some eight 

 feet of water. The lake will be stocked 

 with fish, but the prime idea is not the 

 fisherman but the naturalist ; not a land- 

 scape decoration, but artistic satisfaction. 



Mr. Seton is well known the world 

 over as being interested in skunk farming, 

 and, after returning from the lake with 

 him, he kindly consented to pose at the 

 feeding time of his favorite pets. He 

 also has two lynxes or bobtailed cats from 

 the Rocky ^Mountains, and he derives 

 much pleasure in studying their charac- 

 teristics. There, under close observation, 

 are several of our wildest and shyest 

 animals, including minks, martens, sables, 

 coons and others. 



There is every indication that this 

 will become, under the transforming 

 hand of this famous naturalist, one of the 

 most beautiful and natural developments 

 and a real bird and animal sanctuarv. 



Fall Dandelions. 



Like golden stars throughout the browning 



grass, 

 These tardy blooms appear to those who 



pass; 

 A message of good cheer they have for 



most, 

 Late lingerers of Summer's blossom host. 

 — Emma Peirce. 



Laying Eggs on Time. 



Go with your clock to the clock maker's 

 to have it repaired. Probably a dozen 

 people will say, "I see that you are going 

 to be on time as you are carrying it with 

 you. " Nowadays time is in the atmos- 

 phere. How soon can you do it? How 

 soon can I get there? Oh, Central, be 

 quick ; I am in a hurry ! Is this the fast- 

 est train? We discuss the number of 

 hours that shall form a working day, and 

 some predict that that day will soon be 

 shorter than it now is. Time is in the air. 

 It seems conclusive from circumstantial 

 evidence that even the hens are consider- 

 ing the matter. One can easily fancy that 

 over in Cos Cob during one of these dis- 

 cussions one of the egg layers arose to 

 a point of order and said, "What is the 

 use of this discussion? Human beings 

 have clocks but we haven't." Then arose 

 a Yankee biddie. "Necessity is the 



mother of invention !" she laconically re- 

 marked. "If there is a need there is almost 

 always some method of supplying that 

 need. It is therefore evident to me that 

 all this discussion should have some effect 

 on our egg laying." Therefore sitting- 

 down to the situation, the hen produced 

 an egg with a clock face on it. 



Some reader may be so bold as to be- 

 lieve that this is only a dream. But is 



THE 'TIOUR" MARKS OX THE EGG. 



The white ridges were marked with pencil in order 



that they might show clearly in the photograph. 



Mrs. Gotthold explains that the hen escaped from the 



yard into the flower bed and fed from 



a bed of thvmel I 



this the photograph of a dream ? A hen's 

 egg with a clock dial on it. and put there 

 by the hen? The egg was kindly con- 

 tributed to ArcAdiA by Airs. Frederick 

 Gotthold. one of the Members of The 

 Asjassiz Association. 



The new building for the Field Ahi- 

 seum of Natural History in Chicago is 

 a1 last under way. and is to be complet- 

 ed in three years. Seven hundred feet 

 by three hundred and fifty are its di- 

 mensions : wdiile its floor space will 

 amount to more than fifteen acres, of 

 which nearly ten acres will be given 

 over to exhibitions. Some three thou- 

 sand men will be employed on the struc- 

 ture, which when completed will be. the 

 largest marble building in the world, 

 and one of the largest museums. 



