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TITOS. J. ADAMS; PROPRIETOR EDGEFIELI), S. C., WEDNAAY. APRIL California has just adopted tho golden poppy as tho State flower. On tho Belgian State railways fares are lower than anywhere else in Europe._ _ Seventy-five per cent, of the enlist ments in the regular army last year were of Americans. Something like a boom is reported in the gold rogion in the North Caro lina foothills. Tho field is like that of Georgia's. Lord Roseberry thinks that tho "new Eastern question" is one of tho gravest that England has ever been called to consider. "Tho inoculation of foreigners with the American idea," according to Ecv. Dr. Parkhurst, "it the ono need of the country just now." Professor Frank Parsons asserts that in New York City it costs a man from $30 to ?100 a year for the same amount of transportation he gets in Berlin for $4.50. _ "In the course of two or three gen erations fhe survivors of the Indian Territory tribes will be among the richest peoplo in this country," pre dicts the Louisville Courier-Journal. A league has been forn ed in Franco to assert tho rights of pedestrians against bicyclists. The members ngTee never to get out of the way of a bicycle; they think that in case of collision the cyclist is sure to get the worst of it. A girl baby was born at Kokomo, Ind., the other day who is tho four teenth daughter of a fourteenth daughter of a fourteenth daughter, a record which is thought to be un precedented. The New Orleans Pica yune maintains that she ought to be a witch, if there is any truth in tradi tion. Says the Pleasanton (Cal.) Times: It seems a pity the white labor ot this locality should be made to take a back seat and allow the Japaueso to como in by tho carload and go into tho fields and do the work that the idh men m Pleasanton and elsewhere should bo doing and would be glad to do had they the chance. .The. .ijig statue xti, Wi : 1 i ? ; which ^surmounts the Philadelphia City Kai? Penn Treaty Park. Th it the citizens who get only u . profile view of the statue, please everybody, J. Chester has proposed to put the statue on a revolving pedestal, which will be turned around once every twenty-four hours by means of clockwork. v The Popular Health Magazine ob serves: "The desire in a child for candy and sweets is a natural ono and should not be stifled. Good candy and sweets in moderation, if that point can be found, not only do no harm, but are actually beneficial. Too much sweet upsets the stomach and spoils tho appetite, but candy in mod eration if it is not taken before a meal is a food which children crave natu rally." _ The hansom cab will, in tho opin ion of members of the cab fraternity, eventually give place to the bicycle, except that m this case tho bicycle is to be a tricyele, states the Chicago Times-Herald. The vehicle will havo two seats, one for tho driver and one for thc passenger. This will save the expense of keeping a horse and give the cabman needed exercise. It is conceivable that two sets of pedals might be provided and reduced rates given to eturdy passengers who would help push themselves. Ono of the strangest coffins ever told of is that for which the British War Department is said to be respon sible Tho story is that a workman engaged in casting metal for tho man ufacture of ordnance at tho Woolwich Arsenal lost his balance and fell into a caldron containing twelve tons of molten steel. The metal was at white heat, and tho mm was utterly con sumed in less time than it takes to tell of it. The War Department authori ties held a conference and decided not to profane the dead by using the metal in tho manufacture of ordnance, and that mass of metal wa3 actually buried and a Church of England clergyman read tho service for the dead over it. Exit Sir Philip Francis in tho role of "Jnnius," exclaims tho New York Independent. Mr. W. Fraser Rae, in a letter to the Athemourn, introduces new and convincing evidences that Francis could not have been the au thor of the "Letters of Jnnius," as ho has discovered in the London Morning Chronicle of Angnst 2d, 1774, a hither to unnoticed letter of Junius, pub lished nearly five months after Sir Philip had sailed for India, and refer ring to current, political events which he could not have known. There is concurrent testimony of several lead ing statesman of tho time that they kn.-w who Junius was, and that it was not Sir Philip Francis. His vanity, however, encouraged people to -at tribute the letters to him. TREASURE VAULTS. WHERE UNCIJE SAM KEEPS HIS GOLD AND SILVER. Aa Enormous Quantity of Bullion and Coins in thc Treasury Build ins-Odd Figures as to tho Bulk of tho Silver. ?N tho National Capital there is no spot moro attractive to strangers than the big vaults o? the Treas ury Department. These vast re positories of gold and silver are among tho curiosities of the towu. Th ny rank in interest with the Wash ington Monument, tho Dead Letter Ofiice and the echo stones of the Capi tol. Every day, between tho hours of 10 ami 12, swarms of strangers descend tbo damp, dark staircase in tho big Treasury building to the realuie of the precious metals. A guide accompanies them, and as the visitors peer through the iron grating at tho steel safes holding gold, or tho wooden boxes containing silver, the gnide delivers for tbeir benefit a most entertaining lecture. He tells them how much of each hind uf money in eich vault, tho nature of the precautions adopted GREAT SILVER VAULT IN THE against sneak thievery, tunneling and i other forms of burglary. ' Thc most interesting part of the : show i " -"H. are in t .... ury, and . ... dd, et! ver, noi* . r. ? ? ? ' hold ii wf?-b \ hoir 1 '.Gr tat Tehosophat !" exciamieu a u :-:r. wirb bulging ?yes, as be ?< sta .: nt tue door to this vault . ing-hou?c. "Yes, it's all silver,"replied tue ac- . commodating aud iut-dl'jent guide, i "Thisbig vault ' J<*Upies all the spac3 under the northern courtyard of thc ' Treasury building. Its exact measure- i ment is eighty-nine feet long, fifty- i one feet wide, aud twelve feet high. Behind the iron grating you see j wooden boxes. They are all full of i silver-$2000 in each box. The boxe^ ? are piled all around the edges, and in * i tho middle are bags of silver piled in ? a great heap. We havclotsof trouble i THE GOL] with this silver. Tho boxes burst and the bugs get rotten, aud then when a new Administration comes in we have to we $h it nil. It takes us About three r*'?nth to do the job, and it's dreadful hard work." "Docs this vault contaiu all of Uncle Sam's silver?" asked the ?tranger. . "Oh, no, bless you, no," responded tho guide. "Here we have only $103, 240,000 in coined dollars. That is less than a fifth of all tho silver the Government owns. In vault Kc. 2 von passed that on your way in-wc have $18,000,000. In smaller vaults wo havo a few millions more. We never could find space tor all Uncle Lam's sliver here. Wc are frightfully crowded as it is. In nil wo have here 1GO.OOJ,000 or 170,000,000 of silver dollars. Tho remainder of the 370,000,OOO of coined dollars owned by the Government is in tbs sub-treas uries at New York, Chicago ?md other cities." "You say Uncle Sara has more than 50n, OOO,000 of silver dollars on hwyl?" "Yes, sir. Standard dollar*, H70, 000,000, and silver bullion enough to make 17^,000.00!) more ; grand total, $318,000,000." "But there must be a lot of silver dollars ia circulation?'' asked the stranger. "Not nt many ns you would think," replied the guide. "We have coined 422,000,000 of these dollar?, and the number in circulation is now only 53, 000,000. Tho people don't seem to want 'em. We've done everything we could to induce the people to take the standard dollar. Congress has appro priated money nearly every year to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to send out silver dollars in exchange for other money without expense to the people, but it doesn't seem to make any difference. They don't go. Why, tho number of standard dollars in circulation now is much smaller than it was a few ycar3 ago. Instead of inducing the people to take more of the dollars, they havo actually been sending thom back to us. " "Do you know how much tho Gov ernment has paid out for silver?" asked the stranaer. "To a cent," replied the guido, con sulting a little notebook which he drew from his pocket. "We have bought 503,003,811 tine ounces, for which wo have paid $316,623,011. That is an awful lot of money." By this time every man and womer, in the crowd was listening intently to what the guide had to say. "Now, if you have seventeen of these silver dollars," he went on, "you UNITED STATES TREASURY. can easily hold them in your hand. They weigh just about a pound. Bat if you have a thousand dollars you will - n&ant all vou could carry, or 'noso in tead of i thousand siive* dellars yon [wye a million. That sicins ti.-ir? ..- ion* i . ' ; '..'..u .., .. . l09 O? ?]v.;v. ir you nave ? > uvu- . in the same way they will reach 125 feet. But suppose you have a million. Then they will make a whito streak more than twenty-three and one-half mileslong. "Having now secured a better ap preciation of the magnitude of a mill ion," the guide continued, "let me spve you some figures I have made at add moments about tho 548,000,000 silver dollars Uncle Sam has in these und his other vaults. [) VAULT. "If ull of these dollars were placed rim to rim, fiat, they would reach nearly 13,000 miles. "They would cover all the space be tween the rails on a railway line clear across the State of Iowa, a distance of 350 mik'M. "The weight of all Uncle Sam's sil ver is 10,440 tons. If it were loaded into railroad carp, 40,000 pounds to tho car, wo should have 822 car loads. This would make twenty trains of forty-one cars each, and these trains, with their locomotives, would have an aggregate length of six miles. "The coiued dollars are packed in boxes containing ?2000 each. It is about all a mau can do to carry off one of these boxes. Suppose wo want to move all of Uncle Sam's silver by man power at the Bame time, wo should need at this rate 274,000 men. Giv ing each man five feet of room, they would make a singlo procession more than 250 miles. "If tho Government wen forced to carry nil tho silver across conutry in wagons probably 2000 pounds wonld bo a fair load to each two-horse team, taking good roads or bed roads. Six teen thousand teams would be re quired, and when on the road close together, one after another, they would make a caravan considerably more than a hundred miles long. EMPIRE OE DRESS. SUMMER STYLES IN WOMEN'S II ATS. AND FROCKS. Still Bows of Ribbon Arc thc Lat est Freak in Millinery- Fash ionable Bonnets-The Floral Blouse. THE latest freakish mle in millinery cuts away the whole aide of tho wide brim of a hat and substitutes out spreading, stiff bows of ribbon. iThese bows, or rather loops, stand out like the spokes of a whceJ, and may be bent up and dow? in any becoming manner. It seems rather a pity to cut the hat up like that, doesn't it? lint fashion's chief fancy just now is to cut np one thing that another may be run in to take the place of what is ont away. Bows stand out so jauntily from'the hat in the accomjianying illustration that they seem to be having pretty much their own way, but the hat brim here is left intact. For that matter the appearance that the bows havo of standing wherever they wilt" is all pretence, for all the upper ones are wired into carefully considered positions. Hats of this sort aro made of fancy straw, with wido and slightly rolling brims of contrasting color aud braid that are taken up in back and fastened against the low crowns with a full bow of rib bon. . The same ribbon is then used for the bows in front, and the garni ture is completed with bunches of roses placed at random. Some of the fashionable bonnets are almost make believes. Such are no more'! than a very narrow band of on'V/ i aad j??*re?ed ribltoa l'uni ..' . . ?? .. - ? ? twines i ctfhead and tba rh ..: : . ci?se ?OW, a tiny flower and a flash of jewel is at each end of this band, and standing up jauntily, a little at ono side as if it were gayly making its way down the pretty slope of the head, is a codeado of stiffened lace. A little way off the head appears to be orna mented by this little cockade only, and tho observer must guoss how the HAT Wirn BIBBON* BOWS. thing sticks on. It should be need less to suggest that only a very pretty woman with crinky hair or one with faultlessly smooth, glossy locks, should risk this kind of headdress. WHITE PABASOLS. White parasols prevail, ono of plain, iich silk, without trimmings, being seen in almost every carriage on a sunny day. The chiffon parasols are reserved for midsummer aud for pi azza uso, whero tho sun is less fierce. Others in white aud black stripes in row after row around tho centre are of very thick silks, and are in best stylo when quito plain. For those who object to thc glare that comes through these pretty white canopies aro changeablo silk covers of two very rich aud rather showy col ora, while ladies just returned from abroad have brought home coaching parasols of largo gay Scotch plaids, with a thick polished stick and faceted crystal knob. Thc small old-time sun shades that may be turned down on one 6ide aro again used by elderly la dies, who appreciate I bom for their lightness and convenience. BLACK FABRICS. Black fabrics are specially liked for street wear. A silk wrap Priestley Clairette is made with a plain skirt, n full blouse waist and very large leg-o' miltton sleeves. The collar and belt aro of tho finest out-jet embroidery, and from tho belt fail ends of ribbon covered with jet embroidery io match. This is an ideal dress for Hummer, as tho material is not affected either by dampness or even a severe wetting. The jet embroidery is done on fino satin, and is proof against all weathers. UTE FLORAL BLOUSE. Nowadays a woman oannot have too many evening blouses, and they can be made so easily from some left-over silks or a few yards of cheap light silk, trimmed with chiffon and flowers, FLORAL BODICE. that they have become a genuino economical form of dress. Among the newest bodices is "The Floral," mado of satin or merv, with a trimmed waterfall and bertha of violets or other flowers. STREET GOWN'S AND LONG GLOVES. Nearly all the really stunning street gowns, outside of the strict tailor mades, are made, according to tho New York Advertiser, with elbow sleeves, to be met by long gloves. Somo of these sleeves have a tight inch or so below the elbow over which Li:; Iii--* j-;. .1r.v.va anti tc ?.: . - ' ."' ? is co navo tho tops of these gloves slip ping ail the time, as they do ; but, again, when does a woman's arm look so well as when she stretches it, but, while with the other hand she pulls ap that horrid glove. Indeed, thees gloves take the plaoe of the lorgnette, the fan or the scarf. It has always been essential that the woman1 of fashion shall have somethiug about her costume that she may prune and prink. The graceful scarf gives her every chance for pretty movement of the handsome shoulders, for delicate waving of tho head and bendiagof the neck and for graceful swaying of tho body to meet the lingering folds. The lorgnette is not nearly so good a "property" as tho scarf, but it serves. The hand, wrist and arm may graco themselves with a thousand pretty tricks iu tho use of this weapon ; and there is such a chanca to bend the head prettily on the neok. The eye brows get their chance, too, so de cidedly the lorgnette has its uses further than as something to look through; but just now the long gloves are favored over both these acces sories. Sleeves that demand just such gloves are put into the dress to-day, and tho whole is a very swagger out door outfit. Made princess from mixed tan coaching cloth, the skirt portion has a plaited panel, and the bodice is plain, save for a trimming of silk folds set off with enameled but tons. Similar bands outline the arm holes and a bias fold of the cloth comes around the waist, ending at the silk bands. SIMPLE STYLES FOR HALF-GROWN GIRLS. ! There are few departments of dress that require moro careful handling than that of a half-grown girl. She is too large for children's fashions and not quito old enough for grown-ups, and her costuming is usually attended with n good deal ot worry and perplex ity. Thero are, however, some simple stylos that are always to be approved and that aro girlish and becoming without being too formal and compli cated. One of thespis a dress of white nun's veiling. Tho skirt is in straight widths, with tho front and sidos slight ly gored and plaited in to a belt. Down the front of the skirt and in two strips at cither sido arc bands of inser tion, ribbon or galloons. Thc waist ie slightly full, gathered into a yoke and belt, aud from shoulders to belt and iu tho front and back are perpendicu lar bands of tho same garniture. The sleeves aro very fall puffs of the mate rial, with bands of trimming from the armholes down to thc narrow cuffs just below tho elbows. Frills of laco fall over the arms, aud Ibo collar is finished with a narrow ruchiug of silk, with n fall of lacu below it. ITANDSOMR DHF.SSGS. A handsome dress has tho skirt trimmed with medallion* set on to form patterns. These medallions aro about, as large as a silver dollar. Homo of them are perfectly plain and flat. Others have tassels falling from the middle, Une dress has the frout of the waist, the yoko and the nppoff part of tho skirt ornamented wifc?? thia garniture, A Unique Lighthouse. The lighthouse that has been erect ed by the United States Government at Paris Island, Port Poyal, South Carolina, is novel in form, and, though erected as an experiment, it has done its duty well. It is the most economical structure in the history of lighthouse construction. "When first erected it was regarded with many misgivings by experts. The light, which is run up and down THE CHEAPEST OF ALIJ IrfGHTHOUSES. in rails in the plane of the structure, is housed by day. * At night it is hoisted to ira place at the apex of the triaugle by machinery worked in the oil house at the base of the structure. Tho large foundation plates aro about forty feet apart. Tho focal plane of tho light is 120 feet above tho sea level, but tho top of Ibo structure is 132 feet from the ground. The cost of the iron work set up is $9100, and that of tho fltrncture completo and lighted about S12.000. The Wealthiest Woman's Son. It would be difficult to locate that much-talked-about young man, Ed ward H. E. Green, tho son of tho re nowned Hotty, the wealthiest woman in the country. Ho lives much of the time in Chicago, where he owns about three miles of land in the heart of the city. It is to the very groat credit of this young man-and so bespeaks well ioi his future wife-that he is not '^Nba^^-of h-?? ^^^xcoentrio mother. ^ i:r* to ho, altheaT B&c . : : bj?stbo taipiakoh lot EDWARD H. II. GREEX. on her way to scrub out offices. There is a rumor to tho effect that Edward Green remonstrates with his mother and urges her to take a little rest and comfort. But to no avail. Edward Green, although lame, is a good-look ing young man, and will be a good catch. He is of excellent family, well spoken, good mannered and all that a good husband need to be-and this is not counting the ono hundred millions and moro which Mamma Hetty will leave him when she goes to the place whither money can neither travel nor talk.-New York Advertiser. A Match For the Lawyer. A dialogue about heaven took placo a few days ago between a member of the Baltimore County bar and a lady eighty-two years old, who was un der examination in au equity case. The lawyer, to test the lady's faith in tho hereafter, asked her if she thought we would know each other in heaven. She replied by asking him another question as to where heaven was. His reply was not satisfactory to the old lady, and she told the lawyer that if he wanted to question her about any place ho mnst locnto it. Thou she added : "Of course, wo will kuow each other in heuveu, for our bodies will be the same there, except that we will not have any blood in us." The lawyer next asked her if 6he thought peoplo would have teeth in heaven. She said she could not an swer that definitely, but sho thought they would. Ono thing was cortain, she added: "People would have teeth m the place allottod to the wicked," and she could prove it by Scripture. "How can you prove it?" said the law yer. "Why,"shereplied, "theSerip tnre says the wicked snail bo turned into utter darkness, where there shall bo weeping, wailing aud gnashing of teeth, and how could they gnash their teeth if they did not have any?" Tho attorney did not proceed any further ou that lino of examination.-Balti more Sun. While the prevailing agricultural depression in Eugland does not tend to lill the pockets of the shopkeeper.-, it is continually adding to their size of tho towns. This is notable in sev eral places in Yorkshire. The late Lord Cairns, of England, was the son of a cobbler, while the father of Lord Brassey was a day la borer and his mother a Liverpool match girl 'Are you taking SIMMONS LIVER REG ULATOR, the "KING OF LIVER MEDI CINES?" That is what our readers want, and nothing but that. It is the same old friend to which the old folks pinned their faith and were never dis appointed. But another good recom mendation, for it is, that it is BETTER THAN PILLS, never gripes, never weak ens, but works in such an easy and natural way, just like nature itself, that relief comes quick and sure, and one feels new all over. It never fails. Everybody needs take a liver remedy, and everyone should take only Sim mons Liver Regulator. Be sure you get it. Thc Red Z is ou the wrapper. J. H. Zeilin & Co., Philadelphia. A STUPENDOUS FEAT. Reclaiminq 750 Square Miles of Land Now Under Water, One or the most stupendous feats in engineering which tho world has ever seen is proposed by the people of Holland, being nothing less than the reclamation of the waters submerged by the Zuyder Zee. The scheme, if carried out, will result in recovering about 750 square miles of land now undor water and will add a new prov ince to tho country. It is estimated that the work will cost over $130, 000,000, and will require 353 years of constant labor. The Dutch Govern ment has recently received a favor able report on the plans from tho Roval commission appointed to look into the project, and it is reported that tho government and many of the leading citizens of Holland consider the scheme practicable. In the ex pansion of territory, in tho increase of trade and agriculture, and in the giving to thousands of people the op portunity of profitable employment, tho project, though a stupendous and very costly ono. will be one that will recommend itself to most Hol landers. The work proposed to bo dono con sists,' first, of the construction of au extensive embankment from almosb the extreme point of North Hnllan.i tpjib^ries* " J, so aa to shut alLf ug^:c~ arcess ; .-.?;-: : ? : .. .'?esof . o pur poses, wm De over ?piao.UUU.UUU." There is one important point which lias been raised by the objectors to the plan, and that is that its con summation will practically destroy the Zuyder Zee fisheries, the reve nues of which now average about $850,000 per year, employment being given through these fisheries to 3,000 persons, and 1,500 vessels. To com pensate the fishermen for their loss the Royal commission proposes to give to every man thus deprived of a means of livelihood a new vessel suib ahlo for tho North Sea fisheries; and further to insure them against acci dent, to pension old fishermen and to exempt from harbor dues all the craft owned by them. It is believed in Holland that after tho settlement of thc secondary questions the gov arnmont will at onco order thc great work of reclaiming these lands under water to bo begun. Appearances Are Deceitful. It did look queer, hut Edward was behind. A New Violet. While exploring in the Cascado Mountains during jost summer Pro fessor Lloyd, of Forest Grove, dis covered a new violet. It is a small plant with a delicate white llowcr with translucent pelais, and grows in wet mos-y places. Ho has named it Viola Maeloskeyi in honor of his preceptor in biology at Princeton. THAT FATAL lUr.AXCB. "My expenditures never exceed my receipts," said Hawkins. "Mine do," sighed Wilkins, " In fact, I am very much afraid I shall never have any receipts for my last year's expenditures." "If these teams were lined up side hy sido in solid phalanx, as the wagons of settlers were on the borders of the Oklahoma strip, they would make a column thirty miles long. "Suppose all this silver was coined and stored away loose, so you could get at it easily, and you were set count ing it, dollar by dollar. How long do you suppose it would take you to count it all? WeU, if yon ran tho dollars through your fingers at tho rate of 100 a minute aud worked ten hours a day, excepting Sundays, it would take you about thirty years to finish the job. It is now 12 o'clock, ladies and gentlomen, and the vaults will have to bo closed, under the rules of the Department. "-Chicago Times Herald. _ Don't Fail to Twirl lour Thumbs. A physician in ckargo of a well known nsyluni for the care of tho in sano recently said : "There is ono in fallible test either for the approach or tho presence of lunacy. If tho per son whose case is being examined is seen to mako no use of his thumb, if he lets it stand out at righi angles from tho hand, and employs it neither in salutation, writing, nor any other manual exercise, you may set it down as a fact that that person's mental bnlance is gono. He or she may con verso intelligibly, may in every re spect bo guarding the secret of a mind diseased with the utmost care and canning, but the telltale thumb will infallibly betray tho lurking madness which is concealed behind a plausible demeanor.-Tho Scotsman. How to Make a Sovel S?oiiso Trap. Mice aro very knowing little ani mals and aro often too shrewd to bo caught by even the best steel traps. To make a very effective mouse trap take a large jar-tho kind used for jam and preserves-and tie over the top a piece of stiff brown paper. In tho center of this cut a cross. Set tho jar in a closet and suepend by a string a piece of toasted cheese or bacon rind over tho centre. If the mice cannot easily reach the top of the jar a runway may be constructed by plao ing ono end of a board on the edge of the jar and allowing the other end to rest on tho floor. If thero aro any mice about tho bait will attract them. Just as 60on as tho first mouse reaches the centro of the paper he will drop through into the jar, and the paper will fly back ready for the nott comer. Tho same kind of a trap may De U6ed for catching rats, only a barrel must bo substituted for tho jar. A rat will soon gnaw out of such a trap if not prevented. The best way to avoid this is to fill tho barrel partly with water. This trap is a great fa vorite with country people. They lay THE HOME-MADE MOUSE TRAP. a good-sized stone or brick in the bot tom of tho barrel, nnd pour in just enough water to como level with the top ot this. The first rat that tum bles in, of course, climbs on tho brick tc get out of tho water. As soon aa another victim arrives there is a fight for possession of tho ouly dry spot. The noise attracts other rodents, so by morning a dozen or moro may be swimming and squealing and fighting for dear life. The tarantula is a giant spider, sometimes measuring four inches ia length. It is fawn-colored above, with white Bides, marked with whitish lines. It has four pairs of well-developod legs, in addition to tho mandibles or jaws, which contain the poison appara tus. These aro grooved, and tho pois onous secretion, which is similar ia composition to tho venom of snakes, is contained in a aland at tho base of the mandibles and is forced through the groovos when the spider is angry and grasps its victim. Tho body and legs aro thickly covered with hair. Although the bite of tho tarantula can hardly bo classed as deadiy, it is always extremely painful, anu has probably in some cases caused death. Tho tarantula ?B remarkable both ? for its fierceness and its extraordin ary swiftness. By tho use of eight long and vigorous legs it flashes ovor tho ground, and as theso logs aro sharp and prehensile, it can run up a per? pendicular surface with great ease. No ono peed therefore be surprised t( soo a tarantula nm up from the ground lo his chin. The tarant ula catches small birds, mice nnd insects, lt is ablo to use its poison with greater relative effeot ou these than on mau n.nd other large ani male, The Tarantula. THIS IK A TAUANTUTJA.