Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-05-09
MANY KINDS OF SPIDERS.

up IN the corners OF the rooms ana In
the windows when she has been too
busy with the sewing to look after the
house much but every kind IL an APP
petite on eight legs and thoroughly
convinced that nobody can be strong
and hearty that lives on vegetables.
They all spin more or less, whonce
their name, which Is contraction OF
spinder, or spinner Also, they bite,
and IL you listen to all the fool stories
that are told when spider bites you,
you will save time by sending for the
lawyer to make your will aod telegraph
for the bojs to come home at once II
they want to sec you alive. But will
tell you, as between educated people
that know a thing or two and do not
get scared over every little trifie that u
SPIDERS bite is no worse than mos
quito's-not so bad, in fact. A big
spider can kill ssmall bird with its
poison, but it only makes a mans arm
swell up and hurt for day or less,
and not hurt very much at that.
Bertkau could not feel tho ordinary
domestic spider on the thiog skin of
his band, and only between the fingers
could the spider mako punoture like
that of dull pin. The worst resu t
was that 1t itched a little. Blackwell
had them draw blood, hut that was all.
Though one spider bit another so hare!
that Its liver ran out, it lived for more
than year afterward. AS for these
tArrible tarantulas, either the stories
told about victims having to dance til
they fell down 10 exhaustion in order
to es,ape death and madness were
tremendous whoppers or tarantulae
don't bite as bnd as they used to. 1t
is true In these days the Italian
siolinists had TO work overtime COM
posing tarantelles to play Tor the
hitten, but still there were sneerihg
skeptios that said it wns all n scheme
got up to pass the hat for the wife and
inmily Of the suffer ng ,pau whom Il
malignant spider had bitten while h.
aas out 10 king for job. Du.our
had tarantula thss was quits tame
aud gentle. She took flies from his
fingers like dear thing Almost an!
spider oan be taught to take food from
forCete and water from "a came u hair
prush. They sro great water drinkers,
SPIDERS ere. I'll say that for 'em
Ike tho little temperance bird We
asod 10 reGd about, ~ Mater, Geld water,
Is all Of their song. Rum and tobacct
5hey turn from with loathiug.
1t is a curious fact that the float
ng threads from the vols OF spiders
will take the bluing off gun barrel.
| have been unable 10 lind out why.
The threads of the big tropical spideri
ire distinctly bitter to the taste, bu
.hough the first thought a man las
Shen he tastes anything bitter is thai
1t must be good for mellcine, the onl,
ESQ the healing art makes OF spiders
wets is to us5 them TO staunch the
ow Of blood. This kind OF web usec
for that grows under the counters o
groceries, and 1t was one of thes
ipiders that caught a mouse. / vii
admit, right in the beginning, thu
his looks like a pretty large story
out it is supstantiatsd by no less
lergonage than the .ats Proctor Knott,
Sho was then governor OF kentucky,
though his greater claim to fame wa
lis speech in Congress- about Duluth,
the zenith city Of the unsalted seas.
he humorousiy called 1T, which is
Sery far, indeed. from being anything
nowadays but plain statement of fact,
as no lived TO see. Governor Knot
oade signed statement Of the even
aud sent Ii to Professor McCook, whose
u.hority on the spider question no
body will dispute He saw the spider
hortly after she had SHARED the moust
~ the end of its tail, and while 1t wa
still alive and struggling halfway of
ne ground, and he saw it after 1t had
leen hoisted niue inches from the foo
nd all wrapped up in silk. He calls
a,ticular attention TO the way thu
spider kept stirring up the mouse by
lifting IL SO a. to get another line on it
land this adventure with the mouse
g not the onlI case on record where
p!ders have done deeds of high on
| .srpriAe. The Hon: David L. Evans,
| u Batavia, n. T., saw a striped snake
| zine inches long caught and killed b,
spider, its mouth shut up with
breads of silk aud Its tail tied to 4
not so as to form loop, through
which was reeved a cord as strong ~
ewing silk made of multiplied thread
| md run up over a sort of pulley o
ulch dead lily was the core. Maybe
| uu think that IL a pretty able Eodieo
Lrn, but what do you call the state
rent that Doloinedes spider has beer
leen to catch and land a fish? No, I'm
ilre I've got it right. 1t wasn't thu
sh that caught the spider. There
| R1uldn't be any story Ia that at all
was the spider that eau ght the fish
leapea on the fish, : shoulders AM
Dit and BIT and swung ashore AM
astened lines till 1T varied the fsh ou
| J! waier. 1t WASH { q very big fish,
Hant you, IL one may go BY The pictur,
n the book, but it was fish, ant
Jaat is wonderful enough in ITSELF
| AS general thing in the world be-
ow US, it IS the male that has all tn
he clothes; but, with some excep
ions, it is the female spider tina
josses the rhnih. This beautiful
MILK white spider with tho crimson
trimmings has a little runt OF hus
land thar goes about in plain brown
yith dark markings, and he is luck.
% be alive. As rule, in spiderland
he males are understood. They dom
asst Icing 1t is kind of hard worl,
or .he-spiders. Imagine how it would
% il a mans wife were l3U0 times a
zig as he WIS He would have to TAX
III her impudepoe and backtalk with
Jut a whimper I'm glad. Pm not
.pi6er--at least, not he-srider. Whe
. goes counting his girl tieats hin
neaner than t.og. .l.
4 But even the spideress with th
highest principles WIFI finally sue
sulhb to the charms of some youn
ynitfet or other; but. if he stay
round the ace he has TO understan
.istinetly that he must keep out Q
the way. She's got a lot of things o
ler mind and she can't be bothere
sith him. He knows what she means
80 he hops around, hangs to her whe
ne can, drops when he can, dodge
when he can; but you know what tn
upshot OF it always H. One day ther
withered he spider skin hangin
n the web, and the widow stops an
ooBs at IL before she throws it Out