The New York herald., 1872-09-14

that you almost look TO hear him utter q snrlil
seems to be taking things so ooolly. =, -. ?
And there Is another kind Of fish shall call the
raven or something Of the Sort as he is generally
seen sitting high up on rock or crag IN suiky
or out o. t dug IN sae ce ce q
crabs and oysters and other is that groyei on the
bottom. He never moves except TO sail slowly
and then you see he has spot his tall that looks
IKE an eye. But one might write columns about
BESIDES the eI seht Of those Holsters 60 cool and si
and comfortable has made my mouth water, and 30
step out to the restaurant and order one with
THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION
Stanley is Q hard man to and In Brighton at
least When went to look for him again he had
been carried of to dinner by some OF the digni-
taries Of the place and was thrown upon my own
a !, an and Se
taken. Were they sure there were no more places
great jam and every conceivable nook and corner
was already engaged and paid lor; lmpossipie t 70
st ~ to seg Ss mors 'Rs
and SO, asking for the head manager, was after
some parleying shown into the presence OF some
thing relating to the management. told him
wanted to 60 to the lecture
"Who are you ?" he asked.
81 am pilgrim and stranger and have just ar
rived" replied.
"Do you know anybody here 2"
"Yes know Mr.. Stanley, and am In fact Co
laborer of his in the vineyard Of the HERALD.n
.'Oh, indeed; another HERALD correspondent,
curious to see il was such another as Stanley,
adding "That alters the case; think you Will get
in, and have one Of the best places besides and
the speakers stand telling me II was the very seat
occupied by the Emperor when Stanley read his
paper on the Tanganyika.
In which the lecture was to be read is In the MOOR
ism mosque aforementioned, and beneath the dome,
yvh iph q
sent palm tree. 1t was nearly full when en-.
tered but there were three or tour rows OF seats not
parties. Fully half the audience was composed OF
ladies', and was just wondering why 1t Is that lean
fat;breasted women VIII insist on wearing low
why English woman generally dress so badly, as
compared with the French, when there was sud.
den rush Of men and women apast and over me, o
noise OF tumblng Of chairs and trampling feet,
mixed up with few little shrieks and excama-
thought it could only be case Of the sudden dis.
covery OF fire. l soon learned, however, that II
was only rush for the unoccupied seats, which,
not being taken at twenty minutes past eight were
regarded as lawful prey by the crowd. Then there
was some quarrelling between them and the man
ayers, who told them they had seized the seats be-
fore the time fixed upon, and abused them most
roundy. All to no use, however; the crowd would
give up Their sas G an1 tne
obliged to swallow their Indignation as best they
could.
was on the transformation OF insects, by Professor
Duncan, and proved to be very entertaining and
out with the declared intention Of demonstrating
that insects did not originally undergo metamor-
phoses, and that this faculty in them
and developed by the diGerent circumstances in
which they are now placed from those by which
they are among the most ancient animated beings
and almost co-exlstent with the formation Of the
earth But he did nc not, as far as could see prove
mOrphoses II the slmpe assertion Of the theory by
the learned Professor may not be considered sufil
cient proof His account Of the life and habits OF
the little false wasp Of France was very interesting
and entertaining This little animal It appears, s
IN M ws0a gay ana she
flowers and the buttercups, paying and receiving
visits, making love tafs
Deep in fern and heather lying. courtins
Through the summer day,
and doing nothing else. After . time, how.
ever, the female becomes convinced Of the error
mitage which she constructs for herself by the
banks of some running stream. 1t is curious sort
carS coasisti"s @ Of several rooms, followed out
and most carefully polished, smooth inside and rem
tain length Of time and lays her eggs-one In
each chamber Then she >allies forth again, but
s esa life e Of
haps, scornins Ills repentant spouse SHE be.
comes now fer0cous huntress. She searches out
certain little grub, which she finds with much
difficulty, stngs it, but curiously, not enough to
fies 1t and prevents decomposition. She Hills every
room In the house with numbers OF these
little grEes seals the r, entrance n
o vegetarian, having thus provided animal food for
the 0fispring she has never seen, thus explating
the f0llies OF her youth, while the pronigate male
continues cynical and unrepenting to the last
The exposition OF the learned Professor was re-
ceived with great applause by the audience, who
were delighted with It. He then gave minute
explanation OF the anatomical changes wrought In
the caterpillar In changing from grub to chrysals,
and from chrysalis to butterfly which was very
curious and interesting.