Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1896 — Spiders Like Music. [ARTICLE]

Spiders Like Music.

On one occasion, say's a naturalist, “I noticed a spider which had swung down from the celling of a church and bung suspended Just abovethe organist’s hands. The organist Informed me that he had repeatedly noticed that spiders were affected by muslt Some days afterwards, white seated at the organ, I observed the same spider. Several times I drove It away and enticed It back by playing alternately* soft andante and loud bravura selections/ 1 During a recent concert of Leipsic a apider was seen to descend from one of'the chandeliers while a violin solo was being played, but as soon as the orchestra began to sound it quickly ran back again.