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Title: Birds and nature
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: Birds Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
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sited byEuropeans, they found the nativescultivating three distinct species. Somevarieties, with proper management,will be in fruit in about eighteenmonths from the time the suckers arerooted. The juice oi the pineapple islargely used in flavoring ices andsyrups for soda-water; the expressedjuice is put into bottles heated throughby means of a water bath and securelycorked while hot. If stored in a coolplace it will preserve its flavor per-fectly for a year. The unripe fruit isvery acrid, and its juice in tropicalcountries is used as a vermifuge. Theleaves contain an abundance of strongand very fine fibers, which are some-times woven into fabrics of great deli-cacy and lightness.Nor is it every apple I desire; Nor that wiiich pleases every palate best;Tis not the lasting- pine that I require,Nor yet the red-cheeked greening- I re-quest,Nor that which first beshrewed the name of wife,Nor that whose beauty caused the golden strife.No, no! bring me an apple from the tree oflife. C. C. M.
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PRESENTED BY LOUIS G. KUM FINKAPPi^K.^o Life-size. COPVHIGhT 1899,NATURE STUDY PUB. CO., OMICAGO. LITTLE BUSYBODIES. BELLE P. DOWNEY. ONES own observation tends toconfirm the wonderful storiestold by naturalists about ants.They have a claim to rank nextto man in intelligence. Seven or eight ants once attemptedto carry a wasp across the floor. Inthe course of the journey they came toa crevice in a plank caused by a splinterwhich had been torn off. After re-peated attempts to cross this deep ra-vine all the ants abandoned the task ashopeless except one who seemed to bethe leader of the enterprise. He wenton a tour of investigation, and soonfound that the crevice did not extendvery far in length. He then went afterthe retreated ants. They obeyed thesummons and returned, when all setabout helping to draw the wasp aroundthe crevice. This little incident provesthe ant is possessed of the power ofcommunicating its wishes to others.Ants have been seen to bite off the legsof a cockroach in ord

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