Once There Was A Spider

Ono3 there was a spidcr. There U nothing very startling about this fact, unless you aro of a nervous turn and the said unruly insect drops down into your face while you are trjing to go to sleep, or you are easilv cast down by running into his web thrown across :i doorway. Spiders are chietfy domestlc in their habits in this latitude, and ha e a weakness for rounding out the corners of rooms and filling the chinks in out of the way places witti a substance which. if it had been a little stronger, would liaro won them an honorable placo in the arts and made them as popular as they are now obnoxious. One evening the individual subject of this history was discovered iprqading his nest across an open window that had been raised to give the supper table a more picasant surrounding and as ho had not proceeded far when bia plans were obseivcd, a close watchwakept on his movements and the following notes taken on the process: The upper limit of the web was the half-raised sushi aud enough of the space below was taken to mnke a structuro about a foot square, which was mapped out by singlo unes fasteued to tho wind o w frame. Insido of this a few strand were thrown, which crossed at the center, where an Irregular buU'g-eye like case' of operations was formed bj cross-webs put in very inartistically. Tb! spider theu added more spokes to his wheel until hc had twenty, and then accomplished the feat of joining these altogether by circular webs about an inch apart. These kept the rays in place like a set of guy ropes, that made a deel of climbing and calculation necessary. Next, beginning at the outside, this practical acrobat began running circular webs around the structure, about iive to the inch, each inside circular tolerably regular as regards the outcr one and all fastened to each cross lino by bit of waxy substance secreted by the animal himself. As each preliminary circle was reached it was found moreand more that they took a somowhat different direction from the new ones, or, to bo exact about it, were thrown about a different center. So as to avoid a liüiuulous crussiug of these circular linos the first set were taken up and apparently devoured by the workmen. Nothing but the waxy points where they had crossed the rays showed where they had beeu. The spider did not try to spring from one ray to the other or shoot out his web, but took a tri) around by the shortest route and waxed the nowly spun line to the ray before setting out again. Several times lio broke off the line and made a trip to the center, where he iuspected the work with the air of a master builder, arnl once was observed to give the wholo Cabria a mighty shake, as though testins: tne capacity for holding winged vietims and bearing up his own piratical ,-rli when ho chose to go on a foray. Somctimes on returningto his work lic fprgoi where he had loft oft', and bogan in a new place, which left a rather aukward break in the fnbric, though it w;is nol conspicuous as a whole. Nearer and nearer the center work proceeded, until tho master-workman came to the conclusión that it woulil answer its pnrposes, and snddenly brokc .off the process of drawing his web out of himself.and settlingdowncomposedlv at the focus of the aífair with a gooit appetite, doubtless, and an approving conscience, due to one who has labored faithfully, according to his own light, and not greatly the worse for not being obliged to go abroad for building material. Already his eflbrts had borne fruits, for two giddy flies had dropped into the web and were fluttering in the brecze, as helpless as though held in the spider's claws, but their grim captor wasn't in any lmny for his trapper and let them flutter. He had worked at his best rale for a full half hour, and couldn't exhaust himself further juat now by running after game that was quite safo where it was. A eareful estímate showed that tlic whole web was not far from sixty fee) long, all of which had been evolved from tho builder1 a consciousne.s.s and physical self in this short space of time. But it was getting late. The sun hail already gone. Suddeuly sonae one shut down the window, bringing ruin on this carefully built fabiic and transformin:; our late industrious architect, pirati: and robber into a trembling fuitivc, glad to get off at any prioe. Such is life. - Buffulo E?irc.s$. - I lic orange tree! :il Vflffl&IIles, known as the Great Constable, ia oearly flvè hundred years old. Il vyai piantcii ín 14S2 bv Eleanor, rfCarli vvifc of Charles 1IÍ, Kin of Jïavarre. Tlii-i lias been a poor suuson l'nr bees and t la feared that they Imve not lionoy enough to carry ihem throu;h tbc winter. Mr. Uuterkirclier bas fed bis bus twn barrels of gramiluted mtgat thia fail and willmnken effort to winter hls without loss. He has littcd upa expren[y for tlie purpose of keepin tbein from