The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-07-07


cheese, but in preserves, meal, dried flesh,
and other articles Of domestic consumption;
they have as regular figure, and perform
all the functions Of life, as creatures that
exceed them many times in bulk; they have
sharp snout, and mouth that opens and
shuts like a mole's; they are so extremely
quiek-sighted, that when they have been
touched with pin, they avoid second
touch. The various parts of the body are
covered with long hairs, and even these
hairs are bristly. From the eggs Of the
females the young are Matched in twelve
or fourteen days, and are so small that
ninety millions are not so large as pig
cons egg. Their manner Of feeding is by
thrusting alternately one jaw forward and
the other backward, and in this mauner
grinding their food, and after they have
done feeding they seem to chew the cud.
The wings of insects afford an immense
variety Embarrassing and beautiful objects.
Some are covered with scales, as in the
butterfly tribe Some are adorned with
fringes Of feathers, and the ribs or veins
are also feathered, as in many of the gnat
family and even these scales and feathers
are ribbed and fiuted in variety of ways.
The earwig is not generally known to have
wings, from their being folded up GU the
back into so small a compass. In size
WINGS differ as mpch as in every other
narticular some are so minute as TO be
scarcely nereeptible and others are several
inches in LENGTH The elytra or wing.
cases of MANY insects are beautifully trans
parent objects. such as those of the bout.
Nv the Srasshopner tribe. and many oI
the minnie cicada or froe.hoppers &c
The greater part of the head Of most
aics ia taken mn nv two nrotuberanees
which on minute examination with a com.
mon maepiier seem to be reticulated OF
similar 10 net work. These are the ami.
mails ewes. and consist of an immense
number Of convex lenses. In the libellula
or dragon.ay, there have been counted
upwards of "a. 900 of n hexaronal figure
and brilliant polisb. The ewes of crabs
and Holsters, and all that family, consist Of
lenses of A square form.
In digging porOls in the interior of coup.
tries it Is found that in some countries
thew soon abound in various fish. The
soil having been under the sea in remote
aces the SHAWN NAV exist in the sand the
| fish being yiyi6ed by the access of water
inst as the germs of animalculm are reyiy.
ed BY water in the vegetable substance,
infused; and into which they NAV have
been conveyed by the circulation of the
plant
The instincts of animals are THAR habits
and nractices resultino from their varied
forms and natural mowers They Av
swim. crawl. run. &c. and eat and locate
aoreeably 10 their respectiye experienced
convenience aud the vouno UNIVERSAL,
follow the habits of their parents and ed
ncation becomes their nature generotino
peculiarities in each kind They thus re-
pleuish the earth. promote its intense fer
tilitv and become nseful and pecessor,
lnarts Of n General circle of organic life
An animals disnlav varied and stronc
intellirepce. lint we notice most those ACT,
which resemble our own Thus the spe
cies of the motaeilly. called the tailor.bird
astonishes by sewing two leaves togethe,
with vegetable fihres as with needle onf
thread for its nest The NIGHTINGALE
wren robin &c arc other species
All animals derive their heat and merry
ous mower from the cbvmicol combirotio,
of the oxygen in the air with antaponis
elements IN the lungs of parts equivalent
and their mower of Iocomot;on from reoct
inc bv their muscles AGAINST the earth
water or air
Reproductiou is also evidenced in III,
growth Of trees from Sins and CUTTINGS o
polype and worms from small FRAGMENTS
and of the renewal of the claws Of crab
and Holsters with all their nerves and mart
in perfeetiop.
The power of REPRODUCTION in insects
one of the most wonderful narts of tbei
economy On bebeadinc a sine n No,
head with ali its eomnlex annnrtenonco
viii grow again. so will the feet Of a Sola
mander and the claws of a lobster m
end of a worm snlit prodnces two ner(sc
heads and If emf in three nieces tbe mid
die reproduces nerfect head and tail
The periods of CESSATION are the same /;
the horse and ass or eleven months each
Tn the camel twelve months Tn tho elq
miami two wears and in the lion bnt 6v
months; in the doc and cat two months. i
the COW nine months and in sheen 6v
months The hen s;ts d DAVIS the ooos
20 and the dnck 70
In 1sl3 n boa constructor wask;lled /;
the isle Of France IA feet G inches Ions
in his stomach were found several animal,
as monkeys he half digested
There ore 81 snecies ~ lacorto or lizard
of which the crocodile the ALLIGATOR an,
guana are the chief Those in Enc,a n,
are verv inofFensive and tim;d cro,tnres
and one snecies i the wafer newt tbre
or four inches lone
Twelve snecies Of crocod;les have hoe,
DISTINGUISHED fou~ If which are called al
i ligators and two oav;les Tbose ~ n,
| Nile are tbe LARGEST INF tbev arc now var,
Uncommon. NJ least in lower Egvn, vbor,,
a erocod;le would be cons;dore3 , aroa
cur;os;tv Their form Is tbat az = I;7a "A
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