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LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
SPIDERS THAT CHANGE HUE
Chameleon-Like Insects Take Color of
Leaves and Flowers to
Catch Prey.
Every traveler that returns from
tropical regions has extraordinary
stories to tell of the strange mimicry
of leaves and flowers by insects.
Sometimes the purpose of the imita
tion seems, to be concealment and
sometimes the laying of a snare to
catch other Insects A curious In
stance of this was noticed on the
Gold coast of Africa by a member of
a British scientific expedition when
he stopped to examine a singular look
ing white flower with a blue center.
He found, to his astonishment, that
it was not a flower at all. but a spi
der's web, and that the supposed light
blue heart of the flower was the spi
der Itself lying in wait for its prey.
The legs of the cunning spider, yel
low mottled with brown, were' ex
tended in such a way as to resemble
the divisions between the petals of
the flower.
The web itself, very delicately
woven into a rosette pattern, with
white, and three threads that sus
pended it from the bushes were so
fine as to be almost invisible. The
whole thing had the appearance of
being suspended in the air upon a
stem concealed beneath.
When the scientist knocked the
spider from its perch into a white
gauze net his surprise was increased
upon seeing his captive instantlx turn
from blue to white. Its former mimi
cry had been practiced as a snare;
now it was playing a similar game for
the sake of concealment.
But the end of the performance was
not yet reached. When the investiga
tor shook his captive its body again
changed color, .becoming this time of
a dull greenish-brown. Later he cap
tured another larger specimen of the
same species of spider, whose flower
web resembled an orchid. This spider
exhibited the same remarkable power
of changing its color. Harper's
Weekly.
Young Girl's Brave Act.
Remarkable bravery and presence
f mind were displayed lately by
Jwennie Franklin, aged 16, of New
fork, when she sg.ved two boys from
jeing burned to death. Half a dozen
oungsters bedecked in war costumes
)f Indians were playing around a
council fire" in a vacant lot when
George McCullough. aged six, got too
2lose to the fire, and his clothes be
came ignited. His brother, Alexan
ler, a year older, tried to beat out the
flarues end the fire spread to his
Clothing. The girl leaning ont of tha
.vindow of her home saw the accident,
ind the two brothers rolling on the
ground. She ran out of doors, leaped
Dver a fence and holding first one boy
ind then the other, heaped sand over
them till the fire was extinguished.
Both boys were unconscious, but not
seriously injured.
Soft-Toned Berts of China.
The natives of China. use large bells
of their own make in many of their
temples and monasteries, writes the
United States consul at Foochow. I
have noticed all through Japan and
China that the tone of the monastery
and temple bells Is very soft and
smooth, due to the superior quality
of the material used in their manu
facture and to the absence of iron
clappers, the result being a marvelous
softness and mellowness of tone. The
bells are never swung, being always
suspended in a fixed frame, and the
sound Is' produced by striking them
on the outer edge with a wooden mal
let. This makes the soft tones "which
are so delightfully melodious.
HAIR FOR SKIN GRAFTING
Applied In Chopped Form, It Is Found
to Be Good Substitute for
Ordinary Cuticle.
Chopped hair has been successfully
substituted for skin in skin grafting
by the French surgeon. P Carnot. who
has applied his method in ' many
cases. It is based on the fact that
the cells of the hair and its roots
are epidermic outgrowths and can
easily be transformed into skin cells.
The use of hair not only does away
with the necessity of taking skin from
other persons, which is a painful oper
ation, but it Is said to be an improve
ment as well, as it is strong and
hardy, and being inured to a minimum
of nutrition is able to thrive under
unfavorable conditions, such as pre
vail where grafting is necessary.
The manner of performing the
operation is simple, a few hairs 'being
pulled from the head of the patient
or of a relative, an.' with the bulbous
root removed the freshest or newest
parts are cut into small pieces so as
to form a coarse powder. This pow
der is then strewn over the surface
of the wound and a pror bandage
applied.
Within a week white spots appear
on the surface, rapidly increasing in
size. The spots extend and thicken
and finally form a perfect new skin.
Popular Mechanics.
Gave Life for Brother.
A pathetic story of how a seven-year-old
boy sacrificed his life for his
six-year-old brother was told at the
Hackney (England) coroner's court
the other day at the inquest on Walter
Days. While the two boys were play
ing on the towpath of Regent's canal
at Cambridge Heath. "Ernest, the
younger boy, accidentally fell into the
water, and Walter jumped in to save
him. Ernest, who was held up in the
witness box by his mother, said that
all he remembered was that after fall
ing in his brother "kept pushing him
towards the bank." Ernest was saved
by a third boy. but Waiter was
drowned.
The Musical Laugh.
So much do we hear and read of
the attraction of laughter that we find
it almost shocking to realize how very
seldom a musical laugh in heard.
Very few men have agreeable
laughs. Women as a rule understand
the art a little better. Laughter comes
more naturally to them. Not because
they have a great sense of humor, but
because they, use laughter for a great
er variety of purposes than do men.
Women laugh in coquetry and they
also use a light laugh to bridge con
versational gaps Women really use
laughter in all their lighter moods.
Ail laughter to be at all attractive
must first be natural. So. then, the
ider.r laughter of a man or woman
must have sincerity as its basis. And
ideal laughter is always kind. Real
mirth laughs with a person, never at
them
Early Christian Burial.
There is an old saga of Thornnn
Karlsefne which shows that long
after Christianity was introduced into
the north it was the practice to bury
the dead in unhallowed ground on the
land where they died, and that a stake
was set up. over the grave. "When
the priest afterward came," says the
sage, "the stake was pulled up and
holy water was poured into the hole,
and they sang over the body, even
though it was long afterward." Some
of us might like to believe that this
early Christian custom may have giv
en rise to burial at cross roads the
pious instinct of placing pariahs un
der the shadow of the cross.
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TO GAVE OLD MANUSCRIPTS
Japanese Silk, Thin and Transparent,
Is Passed on Them and Pre
serves Them. .
In the preservation of rare manu
scripts and books an additional safe
guard has been found in Japanese
silk
Its use has removed a fear that
long existed in the minds of librarians
that the rare old manuscrlps would dry
up and return to their original ele
ments. Fortunately, however, the
employment of a silk of extreme thin
ness and transparency has settled the
question of the life of these manu
scripts for the next two or three hun
dred years at least By that time,
perhaps, some other method may be
discovered.
This silk Is thinner than the thin
nest tissue paper, the threads being
finer than spider webs. It Is pasted
over the manuscript so firmly that it
wards off all dust and air, and yet is
so transparent that it does not inter
fere any more with the appearance of
the manuscript than would an ordin
ary pane of glass. It strengthens the
manuscript so that the danger of
handling is reduced to a minimum.
For some time past the United
States library of congress has had in
hand the examination and protection
of all its old manuscripts, employing
for the purpose the silk mentioned.
Unless one be an expert in old manu
scripts, he is unable to recognize the
fact that the silk has been used.
Chess-Flaying Automatons.
There have been several automaton
chess players, but it should not be
accessary to say that they were all
worked by the man behind the ma
chine, or rather, within or under the
machine.-; At the great fair held in
the Crystal Palace, in London, in
1851, an automaton played the game
beautifully; and so early as 1753
Baron iVon Kempelen of Hungary In
vented an audroid that was the mar
"vei' and' wonder of the time. Von
Kempelen went all over Europe wit
bis "Turk,"