Big Spiders

The sands of the steppes of Contra i Asia are the ahiding-place of many specie of loathsomo and poisonous "ereepingthings. " Mr. Schuyler speaks of a phnlango (Solpufa dranéoides), one of the kmg-legged spidrrs knownpopularly ; as the Harvestman, or th i Gray-bonrd, vrhich lins long linir, " and, ben wiüking, seema as largp as one'a tw tints." This formidable beaat in givi en to biting wlien irritated, and with ite : jaws makcs tour little lióles in the flesh. , The bite i-s poisonous, tliuugh not dead: ly. lts victun feels at h'rst do more dis! comfort than from the sting of a gnat, bnt, af ter a time, the pain spreads over the whole body, and is acoompanied with fever and great exhaustion. A Chinese officer states, in liis trnvels in Turkistan, tiiat the body of the largest firilpnfftuí ír tJic BÍZ6 of a lmtterimt : and that of the smaller ones, of a walmit. Hpiders of Hiieh dimensions, ivith their big, hairy lodie liftetl upon long, stont legs, must be as Irightful an adversary as imc would be likely to eueounter in any experience amid thelmunts of wilduniimils.