Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1881 — Nature’s Wonders. [ARTICLE]

Nature’s Wonders.

A thousand wonders in nature are lost to the human eye, and only revealed to us through the microscope. Think of dividing a single spider’s web into a thousand strands, or counting the arteries and nevers in the wing of a gossamer moth. Ye by the aid of the powerful lens of a microscope, it is round there are more than 4,000 muscles in a caterpillar. The eye of a drone contains 14,000 mirrors, and the body of every spider is furnished with tour little lumps, pierced with tiny holes, from each of which issueu a single thread, and when a thousand of these from each lump are joined together, they make the silk line of which the spider spins his web, and whioh we call a spider’s thread. 7 Spiders have been seen as small as x grain of sand, and these spin a thread that it takes 4200 of them, put' together, to equal in size a single France has made overtures to England for a renewal of the treaty of commerce, and has appointed her commissioners. The English government will appoint her representatives and the sessions will take place at ‘once.