MY SCRAP BAG.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1106, 12 May 1893, Page 19

MY SCRAP BAG.

Little people are invited to keep their eyes open, and pick up bit 3 for this. CONNING CBABS. It is no uncommon thing for hermit crabs to settle themselves in the discarded shells of whelks, and to travel about with a seaanemone stuck on the top of the shell. Why the crab and the anemone should be attached to each other puzzled the wise folks for some time. Now they know the reason, and I will give it to you. Certain fishes like to swallow the crabs, but they do not care to swallow a spiny anemone; the cunning crab knows this, so hides himself behind it. A SCIENTIFIC TOY. When the phonograph was first invented it was looked upon as a toy and patented as such. A COW'S AGE. If you want to find out how old a cow is you do not ask her, but you look at her horns. When she is two years old a ring of thick material forms at the base of each horn, and a fresh ring is added every year. LIVING SHOWERS. We talk about it raining cats and dogs, but a naturalist tells of a living shower of mussels. A yellowish cloud was first seen moving rapidly, it burst and descended in a pelting rain which covered the pavements with mussels. This occurred at Paderborn in Westphalia. FRIENDLY VULTURES. A great naturalist says that the little Egyp* tian vultures live together in closest friendship. They play together in the air, they go together to spend the night, and in the morning they all join to search for food, and never does the slightest quarrel arise among them. Children take note.