The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1875-08-25
ANIMAL WONDERS. each grain OF
sand, there are marYels; in every drop OF

ANIMAL WONDERS. each grain OF
sand, there are marvels; in every drop OF
water a world. In that great spectacle
Nature, every being has its marked place
and distinct role; and in that grand drama
called life there presidesa q law % harmoni.
GUS as that which rules tho movement OF
the stars Each hour removes by death
myriads Of e1isteuces, and each hour pro-
duces legions of new lives. The highest
as well as the lowest created organism con-
sumes carbon and water to support life and
its duties, and it is not uninterssting TO
glance at tho food, tho habits and the ways
and means peculiar to some Of tho inferior
animals. From their petaafed elections We
know whatsucA Afossiiizedyeptilss as the psea'
iesaurux, etc., are, and may sone day be aba
20 disco7sr the Ash and crustacsa they
huated down. Animals, when aot nvaS
on their own respectable efforts, are either
parasites or aspsadeats; many voaM Seem
to A,ve positive trades, or are sonnseseS
With branches of iuiustry. There are
miners, masOns, oarpenters, paper manu-
faeturers and weavers, luce makers even,
all working FIRST for themselves, and next
to propagate their kind. The minors dlg
into the earth, form natural arches and
supports, remove the useless soil: they arc
the mole, the chinchilla Of Peru, the badg-
or, the lion ant, as we'll as certain worms
and molluscs. The masons build huts and
n,laces according to all the rules OF archs'
feature, a., the bees and tropical ants:
there are fish that construct boats that they
never can upset, and Agassiz has drawn at
tention to d fab which builds its nest on
the floating sea-weed in the middle OF the
ocean, and deposits therein its eggs. Ths
wa.ps of South America fubricIts
sort of paper or pastebolrd. Spiders are
weayers as well as lace-makers; one
species constructs = diving bell, palace OK
lace. When the astronomer has need OF
the most delicate thread for his telescope.
he APPLIES to tiny spider When the nat
urahsist desires to test his microscope, no
salscts a certain shall OF sea-insect, so
small that several millions of them in water
could not bs visible to the naked eye,
and vet no microscope has becn made suf-
tciently powerful to reveal the beautiful
ya.ieratcd designs, on the atomic shsllsl
Aristotle remarked, AID lie has since been
co.robouated, that y variety OF plover
enters the crocodila's mouth, picks tbs
r.:nnants OF food OF the animals tongue
and fro.a beneath its teeth. This living
tootIp;ck is necessary, L. she tongue OF bne
crocodile is not mobile. tbs Mexican owl,
when enioying 4 sie8t.. puts itself under
the eu.srd Of Il kind Of rat, that gives tina
alarm Oh the Approlch Of danger ParAr
sites are not dependent on any peculiar
condition of the body, and arc as abundant
on persons Of the most robust Us OF the most
debilitated he1lth. They are at home IN.
the muscles, in the heart, in the ventricies,
sndin the ball of the eye. They are general
" either in the form Of leaf or ribbon.
and are not necessarily, as was once sup"
posed, confined to a special animal
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