Oddities Of Animals

Observe for your-elvef. Every spotted O!0g has the end of bis tull white wliiV every spotted cat has the end of her tall black. Try it. Gather 10 000 o; the threads gpun by a íu'l g:ovn spUler. twist them together and see i thcy equal ín gutwtance the Bíze o: :ne oí your hairs. Oystens live ten or twelve yeais when they have ths chance. Ia .h s country they don't get the i:han e. Many horses are fond of beer, and to a tired horse a bottle oí' oeer :n hls groei is a great restorative. It acts as a "piek me up" and o.ten makes a honse with no appetite eat free'y. Brewers umderstand ths. and that is one reason why their horses always seem to be in good eondition. The large horned beet'e can carry 315 times its own weight. Onè has been known to walk away wlth a two and a quarter pound weight. Live bees are sometime shipped on Ice so as to keep them dormant luring the Journey. This ie particularly the case with bumblebees, which have been taken to New Zealand, where they are use'ul in ferti'izing the red clover that has been introduced into the cokray. The amount of light that can be obtained from fire flies is not general y known. These insects have two .bright (pot-s on their thorax, and a,lso briiliant wings on the abdomen and give light sufficient to enable one to read at a itt!e distance. Two or three placed in the center of a room will shed a soft light all over it. They are very common in Havana, Braz 1, Guiana, Venezuela and Mexico. In tho.se countries at night the natives affix the iittle creatures to their shoes and thus obtain light to see the road an dfrighten away the snakes. Mexican omen use them as jewels. They tie them in litte gauze bags and put them in their hair on "their clothing. They keep them in wire cages and feed them on ücraps of sugar cane. Reynard is a knowing anima'. The Toxes are much tormented by fleas, bilt when the infuction becomes too severe they know how to gec rid of the insects. They gather from the bark o; trees moss, which they carry to a stream that deepens by dègrees. Here they enter the water, still carrying the moss in their nioutlis, and golng backward, beginning from the end of their taile, they ailvahce by slow degrees till the whole boJy, with the exception oï the mouih is èntirely immersed. The ileas, durtng ttte proceeding, liave rushed in rapid liaste to the dry parts, and finally to the moss, and the fox, when lie has, accordtag to his calculation, alowed sufflcient time for a;l the Ueas ta take their departure, quickly opens liLs moutli. ïhe moss lloats ojl down the stream with its tvurden of f'eas, and AVhen it is out of jumping distance, the fox finds its way to the