A. M. the earwig had been demolished, and the 
spider, after resting a lit tle while, and probably 
enjoying a nap, came down for the fly, which 
he had finished at nine A. M. A little after 
nine we supplied him with r daddy-long-legs, 
nhieh was eaten by noon. At one o’clock n 
blowfly was greedily seized, and with an appe¬ 
tite, apparent ly no worse for his previous In¬ 
dulgence, he commenced on the blowfly. Dur¬ 
ing the day, and toward the evening, a great 
ninny am id I green flic.,, or what are popularly 
termed midges, had been caught in the web • 
° , ','"'7 ... on© hundred and twenty. 
all dead, and fast prisoners In the spider’s net. 
‘ non arter dark, provided with a lantern, we 
went, to examine whether the spider was suffer- 
ng At all from indigestion, or In any other way 
from Ida previous meals; Instead, however, of 
3i n V i,,ri,,S th0 and night, except 
seems 1 r hf>t day> when the plant 
seems to desist from Its habitual motion for 
temporary repose. A high wind is said to have 
t he effect to produce the cessation of Its action. 
At times again, only certain parts of the plant 
are noticed to be in motion a leaf, or perhaps, 
a >r«neh ; and It seldom occurs that some por- 
f Ions of It are not cpiit© motionless while the 
remainder is active. 
lmmr U ' f,, r lr T; ad ' lv Rr,,ws Borassua fla- 
dfn «.°T Wh i‘ ,h boara a lo;lf of wonderful 
dimensions, and which Is said to be of sum 
right BlZ '’ tG °° Ver t ' volvo n,on -landing U p- 
fom J h ?. or ’,' lc “ r 11,0 lfda » d Java, a plant Is 
found, the leaf of which being of a thorny 
nature, possesses a fatal -.. .. ' 
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! "af.Mr. Dri'KKNH has been 
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gi\en thut It was done by 
a very harm loss announco- 
meets the oyea of sen- 
, no one is to be hum— 
The truth Is 
i, calling himself “a 
Charles Dickkn 
Those who know 
dead for some years will he 
Stated that he has completed 
The explanation Is 
his '*spirit-pen," , 
Hient, we fancy, when It 
slide people. Of course, 
bugged by such a statement 
some Vermont Yankoe, 
THE BRIDE 
imbibing sundry refreshments, they 
emerged, headed by the bride and br 
and marched to the church, singing 
ditty. The company wore dressed, a 
a kindof coarse, black woolen cloth 
SSE ,T >r ®. Vftry *•>’ liav 'ng the eklrtaVw- 
vr»in , W ! t ' h 7 r ' ,aUH,,ltal f°ll (l K© in blue and 
the U L 1 bodios worked with silver round 
hfrge wh.’r W, i ' 8 m U<1 b ^ U ' The brld * Wore a 
Ivb h • headdress and long veil, studded 
with silver stars, arid the priest was gorgeous In 
a crimson velvet robe and Elizabethan ruff. 
«°ay ww very long, but the congrega- 
d ‘ d T* flnd . il te<liou *' 518 they went out. 
wh « h/h«?r l V ak0 dri,,ks and °hAt, besides 
This did ? ® n0r T UB quantity Of snuff, 
this did not enhance the solemnity of the 
scene and even the clergyman stopped 7n the 
midd e of his blessing to sj.lt thrice witn grout 
™io,,,iy «„<1 .-our«cy JX 
A BRIDESMAID 
presently I being thus affected, ho was employed In rolling 
i 'V?T‘r th ° varloua Httle green midges 
which he then took to his retreat and ate. This 
5S l. , i n,,,0 f 0d ' ' arry, "» up the lota In 
little detachments, until the whole web was 
oateu, for the web mid its contents were bun¬ 
dled up together. A slight rest of about an 
hour was followed by the most Industrious 
wob-making process, and before daybreak 
another web was ready to b© used in the same 
way Taking the relativoslzo of the spider and 
maJ h it wmid *1 applyl,1B this to a 
man, it would b« somewhat as follows —At 
daybreak, asmoll alligator was eaten ; at seven 
limb, at nine A. M., a young camel- 
eojiard; at one o’clock, a sheep; and during the 
night, om- hundred and twonty larks. Tills 
we behove, would bo a very fair allowance for 
one man during twenty-four hours; ami could 
«ueh a dlge,tf r '° d WHh S " 0h an ®PPO“te and 
•uch a digestion, we can readily comprehend 
how ho might spin five miles of web without 
killing himself, provided ho j.ossessed the 
necessary machinery. gj»n/. Panr.r 
A SPIDER’S APPETITE 
N order to test what a spider could d 
way of eating, we arose about daybreak 
morning, to supply | lf „ fllJ0 w „ h witlj a fl 
retre,i°r‘ V '‘ r ' “ BP ' dW diJ n,)t come fro,, 
retro.it, so we peeped among the h ave 
there discovered that an earwig had \ 
ShieH f a f n i d i ' V,W " <>W b,f,n # on. 
spider left the earwig, rolled up the fly 
once returned to his " fl ra t ,• n lritw . ■ ihle 
at half-past five A. M. in September, a i 
SOME WONDEREUL PLANTS, 
