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Southland Times, Volume 2, Issue 99, 9 October 1863, Page 3

Anecdote of the Spider — Let me give one more anecdote of a spider, which was communicated to me by three eyewitnesses of the fact, persons of the highest respectability, who were residing at Oporto -at the time it took place. In the hou c c of one of the principal, ecclesiastics in that town there was a room which was set apart for the reception of grains of Indian corn which had been threshed out. Each of these grains must be at least as heavy as two or three of our common wheat. On visiting this room one day the owner of it perceived a grain of the maize suspended from the ceiling of the room by a single thread thrown out by a spider, and which was being slowly but gradually drawn upwards. Surprised at this very unusual sight he iuviled several persons, and among others my three informants, to witness it. How the spider contrived to fix its thread to the grain, or what its motive was in drawing it up to its nest, must remain in doubt, but 'it is a curious circumstance. There are indeed a thousand little facts in natural history, either in this or other countries, which escape being recorded, either from their being thought to trivial, or from want of a ready mode of communicating them. — Edward Jesse, from Once a Week, r Thk Small ; l|st> of Crinoline. — Crinolines, tied up atthe'smaller end, and suspended from a pole at the other extremity, have been used for catching small fish in Cork. Thousands have been taken by crinoline.