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of Maryland" for the Maryland Academy 

 of Sciences. On June 2, he succeeded 

 in securing a pair of young Bald Eagles, 

 which he presented to the society. He 

 writes that they are now as fine a pair of 

 birds as one would wish to see. 



Mr. Enoch Pratt recently purchased the 

 building of the Maryland club at a cost of 

 $30,000 and presented it to the above- 

 named society. 



Mr. Kirkwood would like the address 

 of all interested in ornithology who reside 

 in his state. 



He sat at the dinner table 



With a discontented frown ; 

 The potatoes and steak were underdone 



And the bread was baked too brown ; 

 The pie was too sour, the pudding too sweet, 



And the roast was much too fat ; 

 The soup so greasy, too, and salt, 



'Twas hardly fit for the cat. 

 " I wish you could eat the bread and pie 



I've seen my mother make ; 

 Thev are something like, and 'twould do you 

 good 



Just to look at a loaf of her cake." 

 Said the smiling w-ife : " I'll improve with age — 



Just now I'm but a beginner ; 

 But your mother has come to visit us, 



And to-dav she cooked the dinner." 



A mysterious ringing of electric bells in 

 a Swiss house was traced to a large spider, 

 which had one foot on the bell wire and 

 another on an electric light wire. 



Consumption in Earthworms. — It is 

 now the humble earthworm, exalted by 

 Darwin to the position of the soil-tiller's 

 benefactor, that is destined to become the 

 dread of nervous folk. Pasteur showed 

 about a dozen years ago that the bacter- 

 ium of charbon may be taken up from 

 corpses by these creatures, and carried for 

 a considerable time in their bodies. Two 

 other French biologists, Lortet and Des- 

 peignes, have since experimented on the 

 line thus suggested, and have satisfied 

 themselves that these animals can become 

 the hosts for months of the tubercle bacil- 



lus, which loses none of its virulence by 

 its change of abode. It is thus possible 

 that earthworms — so universal and so 

 active — may become the means of spread- 

 ing one of the most terrible scourges of 

 mankind. The work of these experi- 

 menters has a further interest in being the 

 first recorded demonstration of the " tuber- 

 cularization " of the invetebrate. 



I've got a good New England taste 



For ev'ry kind of pies. 

 But huckleberry's best, because 



You cannot see the flies. 



— Exchatige. 



Unnecessary Evidence. — Smith : 

 You needn't tell me that dogs don't know 

 as much as human beings. I took Ponto 

 to church with me last Sunday. 



Jones : Yes .'' 



Smith : Well, sir, he slept through the 

 whole sermon. — Life. 



Katy Did. 



I had sent a note to Katy and was waiting her 



reply ; 

 But the carrier went his several rounds, and 



always passed me by. 

 The shades were gathering thicker and the sun 



hung very low, 

 I was Iving in the hammock, and was swaying 



to and fro ; 

 And I asked myself the question, "Did she 



answer me or no.'" 

 And in the leafy maple a little insect hid, 

 And declared as though he knew it, 



" Katy-did." 



And she did. 



I finallv received it, and I grasped it with a start. 

 Did it contain an arrow" or a dagger for my 



heart? 

 I hastened to my chamber, very neivous, I con- 

 fess. 

 I tore the letter open and beheld the fond 



address. 

 But I burned to know her answer. Did she tell 

 me " Yes.'" 

 And in the leafy maple a little insect hid, 

 And declared as though he knew it, 

 " Katy-did." 



And she did. 

 — Jay Kayc in Overland Monthly . 



