in the late winter and early spring. In 
fact a eoeoon of Cecropia hi>;h in a bush 
is sm-e to furnish a meal for a " sap suck- 
er. " 
Tlie bird by patient labor forces his 
bill througii the silken covering and feasts 
ou the dainty juices of the inclosed pupa. 
A small round hole in the side of the co- 
coon or an oljlong slit, accompanied by 
lightness in weight, inform the disap- 
pointed collector of the unhappy fate of 
the unfortunate chrysalis. 
Apparently aware of their probable 
fate in the cocoon, n-iany Cecropia larvae 
seek sheltered places, often spinning at 
the bottom of a ivw. liidden in the grass, 
or in the hollow of a fence post or inside 
a shed where a woodpecker rarely vent- 
ures. 
The Doll that Talks. 
In Orange, New Jerx-y is the wurld- 
renowned labratory of Edi.son i he -wiz- 
zard." Here, his fertile brains and won- 
derfid mechanical ability, planed and 
perfected many things recognized by the 
civilized world as necessities. Here, some 
eleven or twelve years ago. th'' I'hono- 
gra|)ii was evohcd and to-day. within 
almost a stoiie"s tlr.ow. ari- several large 
buildings covering many acres in vx liieh 
Over oOO people are at w ( rk nwmuf.iel 
ing the commiM-cial Piiom'grapli and ••tlie 
doll that talks." 
This talking doll looks like :!ny other 
doll; its body however is ma('e of tin, the 
interior being tilled with a mechanism 
resendjiing the commercial phonograph, 
but simpler and nmoh less expen-ive. 
The doll is made to talk liy tniadng a 
crank and w ill repeat \vhate\-ei- was talk- 
ed iiito its cylind<M- betore it left the 
factm-y and after it has spoken everything 
o\i the cylinder, a spiral spring relnrns 
the cylinder to it-' [xdnt otstarting when 
it is ready to talk the same tiling over 
again. 
The factory at present, lia- a capacity 
of abou' 500 talking dolls a day. 
Several firms in this city have already 
advertised t!ie talking dolls and their 
arriv il is longingly hoped for by many an 
anxious tot. 
Is Henry George a Naturalist J 
In the Staiukird ot April :'}>. we find ii 
long editoral letter from Mr. Henry 
George, its proprietor, who has been dis- 
seminatinij his single tax and free trade 
ideas to large audiences in the old world 
and Australia and who is now. w e take it, 
en route for home. 
He says: "As we near the New Zea- 
land coast we have lost the ti'opical 
warmth of water and air, but it is yet a 
summer breeze that is to-day curling tlie 
white caps on the sunlit sea. And though 
the flying fish have disappeared, the king 
of the sea bii-ds, the grandest of all sidl- 
ing tribes, the graceful Albatross, has 
come, as though to welcome us to the 
south. One can hardly tire of watching 
them. Beside their utilization of the 
power of the wind and the force of grav- 
itation, all our human modes of locomo- 
tion seem painful and clumsy. A stroke 
of their feet, a few flaps of their wings, 
and they rise to the apparent power of 
making the air bear them where they 
please, as fast as they please and as long 
as they ple&se, sailing down the wind 
or darting against it, soaring above the 
masthe.ads or all but skimming the water, 
now hovering in our wake, now shooting 
past and circling ai-onnd thi^ bow, with- 
out a single fla]) of iiinion or anything 
that betokens the slightest eft'ort." 
An Old Pessimist. 
'I'he following is .-in exti'iei finin a 
cimmnnication from .Teft'erson Scribli in 
Forest and Stream. 
He used to dream of "the rime when 
he should start on a trip to the uttermost 
parts of the eai-th."' "In his mimrs eye" 
he slaughtered big game and carried the 
skins iioine. Year after year ro lied Into 
etei nity and the 1 rip was never made. 
"And now, at sixty," saiil he, "there is 
no prospect and it's too late, now, to start. 
The last elephant in Africa will soon 
have his tusks sawed off and I could 
hardlj' reach the jungle in time to see the 
man-eater, dead, full of bullet«. At home 
here, the grizzlies have become jinsil- 
lanimous, even the Indians are corraled 
in their graveyaj'd. The woods are 
speechless except for the quail, liberated 
by count in the s))ring to be shot in the 
fail. Theie's a trap in the path of every 
shy creature v/ith a coat of fur, and a 
bounty on his scalp in the town clerk's 
oflice. In a few years more, we'll study 
natural history in museums, with moths 
corrupting rare, beautiful skins, which 
we now barter in bales, and wise men will 
gathei- reverently about a foot print in 
petrified mud where stupid men now 
congregate in ambush, with 'blinds' and 
'batteries.' " 
AVith the killing of Kangaroos at the 
rate of 711,000 a yeai-. Australia will 
soon be )-id of its greedy marsupials, one 
Kangaroo being aecaised of consmning as 
much grass as six sheep. 
If PENS 
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