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THE NATURALISTS’ COMPANION. 
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BAjYDOM jwtes. 
Jumbo, Barnum’s iamous elo- 
phaut, is dead. A taxidermist of 
Bocbester, N, Y., be l^elieve, is to 
mount the hide. The skeleton \yas 
jjresented to the Smithsoiiean. 
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Mr.G.W. Barnhart,of Chambers- 
hurg, Oliio, recently exhibited at the 
fair in Dayton, three pumpkins all 
on one vine; the smallest weighing 
83 pounds, and measuring five feet 
live inches in circumference. 
Weiderman’s ‘‘Beilblatter'’ says 
that a shark belonging to the genus 
symiuis is t)hosphorent on its whole 
under surface, with a small black 
strip oil the hack to lie excepted. 
All of the upper surface gives no 
light. 
All eagle (lied in A^ienna, Austria, 
last November, that has been kept 
in coiitinmeiit 114 years. It prob¬ 
ably was a young bird when caught, 
so that its age must have been not 
far from 120. A record (T the 
eagle’s condition was made from 
year to year. 
Herr AYieler, exjierimenting at 
Tubingen, has discovered that^ the 
growth of plants is more rajiid un¬ 
der diminished atmoxSpheric pressui’e 
—all other external conditions being 
the same-—than at normal jiressuro. 
On the other hand, increasing tlic 
pressure lessens the growth,the mini¬ 
mum being reached at two or two 
and one-half atmosjJieres. 
One of the liardest woods in exis- 
tance is that of the desert ironwood 
tree, which grows in the dry washes 
along the line of the Southern Bacitic 
Railroad. Its specilic gravity is 
nearly the same as that of lignnni- 
vitie, and it has a black heart so 
hard, when well seasoned, that it 
will turn the edge of an axe, and can 
scarcely he cut by a wcll-tcmpercd 
saw. In burning it Hves an intense 
heat. 
