Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1886 — Educated Spiders. [ARTICLE]

Educated Spiders.

The locust, who comes with his soft sighs in summer time and his “W” predicting war, must now take a back seat. From a North Carolina contemporary we learn of a breed of educated spiders who are in the prophecy business, and who scorn the initial letters. When they have anything to communicate they write it out, and they don’t misspell words, either. One spider ran out a web, and then wrote across in bright, silvery letters, “War.” Another spun a web and began to write. He embroidered across his silken home the word “India.” Next day he proceeded and finished the sentence, “Indian—A War.” These educated spiders are bad-look-ing citizens, in size as large as a honeybee, have eight legs, and when disturbed show anger, shoot out their tongues, and swing their cobweb tackle as if they meant to jump and sting. The educated spider should be suppressed. His literary labors can do no good. Besides that, the country has too many prophets already. —Atlanta ConstuuAon.