Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1896 — Oddities of Animals. [ARTICLE]

Oddities of Animals.

Observe for yourselves. Every spotted dog lias the end of his tail white, while every spotted cat has the end of her tail black. Try it. Gather 10.000 of tbe threads spun by a full-grown spider, twist them together and see if they equal in substance the size of one of your hairs. Oysters live ten or twelve years when they have the chance. In this country they don’t get the chance. ’Tlie large horned beetle can carry 350 times its own weight. One has been known to walk away with a two and a quarter pounds weight. Live bees are sometimes shipped on iee so as to keep them dormant during the journey. This is particularly the case with bumblebees, which have been taken to New Zealand, where they are used in fertilizing the red clover that has been introduced into that colony.