The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-08-22


In mirth and charming frolics gay.
JANET NJ. Monroe.
Indianapolis. Ind.
Butterflies and Moths.
Youths Companionl
told you little last summer about col
Letting butterflies and moths.
Some of you have caught few in your
hats, and have brought them in with broken
\ wings.
One or two have taken them in nets, have
Akilled them with little help, and mounted
khem quite neatly.
Somebody else has found few caterpillars,
and is watching to see if they will turn into
butterflies.
Early one morning last summer, 1 found
on a window-blind u beautiful whst2
Its antenns are slender and slightly curved
at the ends, its body is thick, divided into
rings. and Of an olive-green color, shaded
\ with gray. Its wings are of the same colors,
! yeined with bright pink, and underneath are
prange and gray.
The same week, somebody brought me
another insect of about the same sizs, deli
\ ~eately marked and shaded with gray and
brown, and wearing five orange colored spots
bn each side of his back.
They have something coiled up like
AFstehspring coming from their mouths, and
tnelr ante0n6 are curved or nOOke1 at the
ends. They are hswk-moths.
put my insects to sleep with drop OF
chloroforn, and spread out their wings.
The next week somebody brought me
large caterpillar, about three inches long. Of
: a strange purplish-green color with white
spots, and something that looked like On eye
ION the end of his back.
i have seen csterpiEars like him before,
ard knew that they fed on grape and wood
bine leaves, and went into the earth for the
winter.
put him into large box with flower
pct of earth, and gave him some grape lesves
10 eat
Fer week he did not change at all, ex-
cept that he grew little smaller; but one
day, when went to look St him, saw that
ne had split his skin down the middle of his
\ back, and erawled out Of it. There it lay, q
! little crUmpled heap, with the shape of the
head and feet quite perfect.
The caterpillar has not gone into the earth
q shed it, but lay on top Of the fower-pot,
covered with brown skin that was soft at
first, but hardened as the days went on.
His shape had changed, too, for he had
grown shorter and was pointed at one end.
The next week 1 found another caterpil-
lar, almost, but not quite, like him. fed
him on woodbine-lesves, and the very next
\ day ne shed his skin and became q chry-
Asslis, smaller than the frat, but of the same
kolor.
He seems quite dead, but the other moves
if he is touched.
/ waited for the next summer when two
hawkmothf, like those that hsd last yesF,
Or nearly enough like them to show that
ASbey belonged to the same family, crswled
out of the brown csseF, to fall fast asleep
after they had had their drop of chloroform.
vol va VIZ M
bine. you will find some caterplllars like
them.
One Gay found long. brown, furry cat
erpillsr on large leafed plant by the side Of
country road.
brought him home, with some OF the
leaves on which he was feeding, and in 3
day or two he span 8 cocoon in the corner Of
his box.
He is called sslt-msrsh caterpillar, and
by and by will be white moth with yell
| low body and black spots on his wings.
Brigbt-colored caterpillsrs sometineI
change into dull butterflies and moths, and
dull csterpillars into bright ones.
a Brave Lad.
TE1liot Mccormick in Harpar's Young People.l
Charles Biller, lad OF thirteen was row.
hg down the Passaic River, near Rusher-
ford Park, one summer day in 1877, when he
saw 8 fst-bottomed boat with four girls in it
struck by another boat containing three
boys. The collision steve in the side of the
seow. and tipped over the boat, 30 that b)th
parties were thrown in the water. Quick as
\ thought Blller threw of his cost-he had
been bathing, and his shoes we're already of
\cand jumped in after the girls. His c)m-
SenioDs were younger than ne, and too terri
ID to do anything but cit in the boat snd
stare.
Two Of the girls were about his own age,
md the others . year younger. Blller him.
ELF was used to swimming, and, grssping
lVo of the girls, he struck out for the shore
Inch was $50 feet away. Reaching il in
safety, he left bis freight, and went for the
Others, who were still struggling in the wa
ter. Some bostmen had meanwhile gone TO
the rescue Of the boys who had caused the
accident, and one of these caught one of the
Remaining girls, while Biller saved the
kprth- For this brave exploit, the boy was
gsrded with gold medal from the HUI
name Eociety of New York. When, some
time afterward, be came TO go into business,
HE courage and manliness were not the least
Of bis recommendations
The boy or man who does one brave deed
very often has the opportunity to do anoth-
er, and although in the case of Charles Biller
me opportunity was delayed six years, he
pas quick 20 improve IL when it came. Ole
light day this summer he started from his
me IN Newark, New Jersey, for days
excursion to Coney Island, and was walking
from Brighton 70 the Iron Pier, distance
Of about mile
As ne trudged slong, Biller saw ahead Of
him a carriage standing on the sand, ami
rear by girl, who, as he gszsd, suddenly
ran down 10 the water aud Piunge1 in. she
\Hss lot in bathing costume, and thsunasasl
kht excited the lad's wonder and Curiosity
|-At the same noEen. he saw gentleman