Why do Flowers Sleep?

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 25 April 1890, Page 3

Why do Flowers Sleep?

. It it to gitebuay insects 'a ohanoe 46 fartiliae them?. The Jewiati. «MMsenger remarks :— That flowers tleep n trident t« the most clsua) y bbseiVer. The beautiful daisy opens it- sunrise .and closes at fcunset, whence its name, "day's eye." : The morning gtoiv opens it's flower with tlti day. .The: » John-go-to-bed-at ■ ntoft" awakes at 4 o'clock in the inbrningijaut closes His ejes in lihe ' thft Dpi Of th« day, and the dande- ,. lion is in foil bloom only during the hour» of Jtronfr light. tiiWt of some, flowers is ctrt«i% tery ourions and furnivhea one of ' ' th« many instanceii wiiich.proYe #ingnlar adaptftbility ol (?verythinff in nature. This reason is found in the mtthad by which this, blasa of • fkrwsrs is fertilised. Jt is obvious, ' fays Bir John l^ubbocji, flowers which are fertilised by. ni^Lt . frying iniaats would derive no . adyantage frons'being open ; by day ; an^ 6q the ether hand, that those whioh ' are fertilisfld by bees would be a diradvantaga, .bocause it would render -them liable to be robbed of/tneir -honey and pollen by insects" which are incApable of fertiUsiog! them.. Li . . if possibie/.thfln, that the closing of .flowers soay har« reference to the habits of. insects, and it may be 6b* served, alw, in support of this that ' wind fertilised flowers nover sleep. Adrriirably Fitted for the Bar. -— • ' ■■+ — . ■ • (Free Press); One rt the Col. '< Bob'" tngenbh's , jtoriesig that, he found himself alone ip the. office one day while as a young man he was studying law with § firm out West. He was inby the entrance of a raw- : boned shar^ featured conntry \. wOlMau who ambltfd into the room. „ J«kdinga freckled Cace, wat ry eyed .>imynroW boy by the-hand. " Air yt* the Uwy§r?"iih«- began. On

. .... t y\ a being aaiwered in. tho. atSnnativi le she went on to say that she hac of brought her boy Jim to town for th< ie purpose of binding him out to tht 3d " lawyerin trade," she was morallj ,>* certaiD, she averred,; that Jim was {c a borne lawyer", and that all he n* needed was a chance. " But te maHame," objected the Colonel, "h« ii« is entirely to yourig to begin the' t. study of aw." M Too young indeed Q . snuffed the fond mother contemp- \% tously ; " you don't know Jim. He id was just born for a lawyer." The ie colonel asked her on what grounds *1 she based her, hopes of future at the r. bar of her darling ohild. Why," c »aid she, "when he was only seven g years old he struck work, arid swar* ,r h» flr^ida't dp andthe^Uck if he got i'. 1 killed for it. livhen. he "was Bhe s got sassy, and,put on.more airs that f a priae horse at the country fair, and 1 now, Law biesfl me, he jest freezes on to everything He can .lay hisjhands I on^' - < ' ,