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Discovery of Enormous Fossil Eggs. / 



The Calcutta Englishman says : The Mauri- 

 n mentions, on the authority of a Bourbon 

 ournal, that a singular discovery has been made 

 ij|.:-in Madagascar. Fossil eggs of an enormous size 

 Reave been found in the bed of a torrent. The 

 Ehells are an eighth o? an inch thick, and 'the cir- 

 !* cumference of the egg itself is two feet eight inches 

 lengthwise, and tw.o feet -two inches round the 

 '! middle. One, which has been opened, contains 

 1 eight and a half litres, or about two gallons! 

 What was to have come out of these eggs? Bird 

 I; or crocodile? The natives seem to be well ac- 

 | quainted with them, and say. that ancient traditicTn 

 | is uniform as to the former existence of a bird 

 ge enough to carry off. an ox. This is only a 

 little smaller than the roc of the oriental fable, 

 which waited patiently till he saw the elephant and ! 

 rhinoceros fighting, and then carried them of both 

 <ne swoop. Some fossil bones were found in 

 place as the eggs, but the Bourbon editor 

 3, lie will leave it to the pupils off the great 

 Cuvier to decide to what animal they belong. If 

 they should prjove to be the bones of a bird of size 

 corresponding with the eggs, the discovery will 

 , indeed be an. extraordinary m-p 



THE CALIFORNIA SILK-WORM. The Saturnia Ceane- 

 thi can now be seen to advantage, in all its metamor- 

 phoses, from the cocoon, its first, to the full grown 

 caterpillar, its last state, in the grounds of the San 

 Francisco College, on Bush street, between Mason and 

 Taylor streets. There are upwards of one thousand 

 caterpillars, that will shortly be transformed into co- 

 coons and chrysalides. Those of the public who are in- 

 terested in this discovery may. on proper application to 

 the establishment named, have an opportunity to ex- 

 amine the insects. Bulletin. 



THE GRASSHOPPERS. These insects have made their 

 appearance in countless numbers near this city, and are 

 consuming vegetables with great' rapidity. We have 

 been assured that many of the growing crops near the 

 Partera and Cieneguitas have already been quite des- 

 troyed by them. They appear to have a partiality for 

 young bean vines and growing grain. The dry season 

 has doubtless favored the development of the destruc- 

 tive insects. Santa Barbara Gazette. 



T<:lenraplt. 



a negro woman in Bibb 

 aadred and nineteen de- 



ut she has been blind for six 



f her descendants, as well us her- 

 iow owned by a gentleman in this coun- 

 Another heir owns fifty-two iu another coun- 



le name of the woman is Sena. She was one 

 iree slaves inherited by a lady married in 

 lisville, Jefferson county, Georgia, in 1801. 



a this as a fact in slave statistics from 

 1 drawn, that negroes 

 in Georgia, or "they 

 nonweo at sui li a n.to. 

 eeHf cTirioshy !> s<-v the eld bidy and 

 descendants, I will take pleasure, iu showing 

 to you, us iill live within a few hours' travel 

 of each other. 



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RespectftUI^vyours, 

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rift ("reek, Bibb 



BAY GALL. 

 Feb. 22, 18o7. 



w yV^^Manin America. 



We find. the following communication iu the 

 Cassville (Ga.) Standard, of the 20th inst. : 



Mr: SmUA: A recent notice in a New York pa- 

 per makes Peter Nassau, a colored man, residing 

 at Woodstock, Vermont, the oldest man in Amen? 

 ca. He nas attained the extraordinary age of 

 hundred and twenty-six years. Albeit, in hi, 

 of short hved humanity, this appears a wonderful 

 accumulation of years-there is in 6? 

 of longevity that 



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