Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1864-08-19

that It. Is teatime 0iluae Lorraine atnoo6a NC
| did not maksa elDdk Of four dtEeuty flowers IN
his zsa0EJ landscape painter most hniiar
with. azt1ns 3sh8a Nhsn he WAS abroad he could at
asyst7DeiknOW what o'e1oSk ir Vas by asking me
time of the flowers Of the field Il would nave
been no use for hlm to ask . cat The peasants o.
AuEergn0e and Lang0edoe all have At ther coOIs
beautiful barOnete1s, In which there s no gas;
quicksilya, or jainer's work They were furnlSnee
by the flowers
Let me nut spider into . LADY hand. She Is
aRhast She shrieks. The nasty ugly thAngt-
Madam the spider Is perhaps shocked a your Brus-
sels lsces; and although you may be me most e.
quists miniature painter living, the sPaoSr ass
over them. Just show her ycur crochet WORK
when Won shrek At hsE. Hare yOn spent nan
your days" the spider, if she BE- sPitefal may &c
mark, have you spent half your days upon the
clumsy anti nseaSSArs and these ottoman COVERS!
NJ dear lsay-is tSat your web? II L we're org
enough, Knight with reason drop soH, ana CRY al
you Betne spend day with You, aud bTlns @ay
work. have four hit1e bag Of thread, such iGtie
bAgsI lsrsyery bag there are more than thou
sand 6sieS such iisy, tiny holes! Out OF eaeh
hole thread runs and al the threads-more than
four thousand ihrsads-I spin together AS theE run
and when they are al spun, they make but one
thread Of the web weave. I have . member OF
nav family Who Is herself no bigger than grain OF
sand, ImaEiue what sender web she makes, and
of that TOO, each thread is made Of four or tve
thousand threads that have passed out OF her four
hASs through four or i've thousand little hOieS,-
Would YOU drop her too crying out about YOar'
deEcaeyf 4 pretty thing indeed for You to pllme
yourselves On defcaeJ and scream at US Having
made such speech, We may suppose that the IN
di ynant creature iastens rope Ho1nd one Of the
| rough points IN tie lady'S hand and let herself
| down lightly 70 the floor. Coming down stairs IS
! noisy, clumsy work, compared Fir such way OF
! loconotioa-
The creeping things We scOrn. are miracles Of
| beauty. They are more delicate than any oTnc!u
clock or any lady watch made for pleasures sake.
no bigger than 4 shilling. LyoaBet counted bur
thousand and forty-oGe muscles in . single cate:-
pillar and these are q small part only Of Its WORKS
HoOke found fourteen thousand mirrors in the e
Of bluebottle, ard there ere thirteen Thousand
thrse hundred separate bits that 90 for nothing bat
the act If breathing, in carp
Then there are wonders Of lcoomouon IN the
world greater than any steam engine can furnish
When the hart seeks the water brooks, how many
things are set in notion EyeS to see where the
water IS muscles to move the feet nerves to Sur
the muscles Snd . viH-no man knows boE-to
stir the nerves There swift creatures who de-
pend for self protection on their legs as hareS and
horses Others less quick Of movement commonly
have weapons IS the bull or the rhinoceros- Birds
living in marshes have long legs As Frenchmen llE-
ing in marshes, IN the Department of the LSndes,
make for themselves long legs BY using stills
Marsh birds have stills born With them. The legs
Of animals are proporoDed always to their blk and
to their habits The huge body Of the elephant
stands upon four thick pillars, the stag has supports
of Lighter and number quality. Animals that get
some Of their living the water As beavers. o;te. $
swans, ducks and geese are born with paddles on
their feet The mole again is born with spades his
fore legs ard the camel Is born with his feet
fully padded, with his head lifted high above the
sand waves, and his eyes carefully protected from
glare and dust One might think through a volume
to good purpose, about legs Every creature has
the legs it want 4 traveller in Africa relates bow
his baggage mule stumbled and fen, aud could re-
tain no footing over ground covered with fresh
traces OF the hlpPopotamGs- The hlppOpotamus
was born with clouts and had the right feet for his
own country; tie mule Was on = soil for which il
had not been created
Let US watch the movement Of little thing
How does butterfly escape = bird. By lacking.
Ii flies, when pursued, with = sharp, zig gag mo-
ton. Let US compare strength with strength
The commonest beetles is in proportion six times
stronger than horse. Linneus said OF the ele-
plant that if it were strong for its size As stag
beetle 1t would be able TO tear up the stouteSt trees
and knock down mountains
the movements of birds upon the wing. furnish
f4ioiliar world OF. wonders: some fly like arrows,
some describe circles IN the sky, and others take
Haging, undulating course There are birds every
where, and they are capable Of almost any thing
what one bird cannot do, another can. There are
birds of the earth birds Of the water and birds Of
the air. There are birds that scream at sea among
the temPests, birds that sing at home Of . calm
evening in the tree shading the cottage door
There birds that upon the soil in open plains
and there are birds that live in caEerns: birds Of
the wood, birds of the tain, birds that love
towns and houses, birds living alone in deserts
We have heard of the singing Of swans It is
not quite fable. During the winter nights, focks
nf FRA he nlaip III nd
ing the air with harmonies like murmurs of the
Tyre. There is perfect time kept at the concert
which they give. The ablest bird opens the chant
second follows, then ;hird and finally The whole
choir Ellis the sky with melody. The sir is full Of
modulated utterances and responses, which the Ice
lander In his warm cabin is glad TO hear; for he
, knows then that the spring weather is at hand.
Tbere are more haTmonies in nature than mere
sounds afford The world about US is all harmony,
Of which We can perceive only part The Ceph
sus that watered the gardens Of the Academy has
disappeared with the woods If Mount Hymettus
The old ScamaDder has disappeared with the cedars
Of Mount Ida, under which il had its source The
climate Of Italy was mlder than it is, less reent-
less its heat before the destruction Of the for
ests Of the TyroL BE who cuts down a tree de-
stroys colony Of insects, home or haunt Of many
birds, . source Of food to quadrupeds perhaps, or
even 10 man The plantain tree, that shades a
fountain or hangs over the marshy borders of q
stream, is 3 beautiful object Between the river
and the tree there is harmony. The Persians
seourged with pestilential maladies from their
marsh bordered rivers, until they called the plan
taiD-trees TO their aid. "Thers has been no cpl
demic at Ispahan," says Cbsrdin, "since the Per
slams adorned with such trees their river sides and
gardens"
We may consider, too, the harmony Of colorA-
Rsfaelle was uOt more choice about his painting
than we find the sua 10 be As winter departs,
the modest violet 6rSt blossoms beneath vail Of
iesTes The modesty means need OF shelter
Protecting leaves radiate back upon the fragrant
little flower al the brat that departs from it. As
the SHOWS disappear, blossoms Of other flowers
open which display themselves more boldly, but
| they are blanched or Nearly SO. In the passage
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