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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 29, 18 August 1887, Page 2

Spiders have always been credited with bein ’ cunning as well as cruel beasts. Why they should be called ‘ cruel ’ simply because they get their food in their fashion I cannot say. But their cunning, or rather wisdom, is certain. They have learned to take advantage of the electric lig! t. Indeed, they are as much interested in the development of electric lighting as mankind. Thus, at Washington the public buildings have powerful electric lights in front of them. These attract an enormous army of moths and flies and the result is that the spiders have taken up their position in such happy entomological hunting grounds in | such vast numbers that the buildings have been thickly coate 1 with dense layers of spiders’ webft