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Title: Birds and nature
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: Birds Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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eldby some that the possession of a soul isnot limited to the human creation. Settling himself in front of the singer,he would listen with bated breath andeyes widely dilated. Never would hemove a muscle, unless after a prolongedinterval in the music, when he wouldsoftly approach the vocalist to caress herface and neck with his paw or to smoothher cheek with his own. His coaxingsalways had the sought for effect, whenhe would once more seat himself withbecoming decorum to imbibe the har-mony which seemed to ravish his being. This is by no means an isolated in-stance of fondness for musical discourseon the part of cats, though this particu-lar case affords an extravagant illustra-tion of that aesthetic sensitiveness whichcharacterizes probably the whole felinetribe. S. Virginia Levis. FIRE-FLIES. The Day, disrobing for her rest, Delayed to lift the twilight bars; And oer them, from the golden West, Wandered this troop of truant stars. —Cora A. Matson Dolson, in Lippincotts Magazine 92
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FROM 472 F niCINAL-PFLANiEN. SUGAR CANE.(Saccharum officinarum.) CHICAOO:A. W. MUMFORD, PUBLI8HIR SUGAR-CANE. (Sacchanim offzcinarum Lin. Has God then given its sweetness to the cane,Unless His laws be trampled on—in vain? —COWPER Charity, 190. This highly important plant belongs tothe grass family. It is perennial, withthick, succulent, jointed rhizomes, hav-ing root tufts at the joints. The stemsare numerous, erect, cyHndrical, growingto a height of six to twelve feet. Likethe rhizome, the stem is jointed, the in-ternodes being, however, much shortertoward the base. The leaves are numer-ous toward the apex, being deciduoustoward the base. The apical tuftlike in-florescence is quite characteristic. Theindividual flowers are small and unat-tractive in appearance. One of the re-markable things about the plant is thatthe fruit never matures. It must be re-membered that the plant referred to isentirely distinct from the so-called sugar-cane of the Central States from whichsorghum mol

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