sINGrLARrTIEs IN NATURE.
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T. The shark fish which swallows without
distinction every thing that drops from a ship
into the sea, abhors the 6esh of fowl When
dead fowl is thrown from ship into the sea,
the noise brings the shark @ the spot, but on
discovering it to be fowl, he Immediately
retires without touching il; from which cir
clmstance the sailors say, e the shark flies
from the feather"


2. In the royal cabinet at Paris there are
arrows whose points are impregnated with the
juice Of a plant so yenomous, that though ex-
posed to the air for many years, they can
with the slightest puncture destroy the most
robust Of animal. in few minutes The
blood Of the creature be the wound ever so
trifling. instantly congeals. But ft TIE patient
at the same instant is made TO swallow small
quantity Of sugar, the circulation is immedi-
ately restored. Both ihe poison and the an
tidote, were discovered by the savages, who
inhabit The banks Of the Amazon.


5. Although Salt is employed to preserve
animal food from putrefaction, yet bottle or
caSk Of sea wafer becomes putrid much soon
or than bottle or cask Of fresh water and
sea,water, although salt 10 the taste, takes out
-sah, or deprises bodies Of saltish taste, much
better than fresh water This fact is well
known 70 all sailors, whe always employ sea
water. in preference to fresh water, for the
purpose Of freshening their salt provisions.


T. The firing or burning Of forests in the
neighbothood ofthe sea-. or on large rivers,
is said invariably 10 produce the effect Of dri-
wing away the fish. Denis, in his natural his
tory Of North America, tells us that the cod
which in shoals used to frequent the coast of
The island Of Miscon, disappeared in 1869,
because, in the year preceding, the forests
had been destroyed bv a connagraiion. He
remarks that the same cause had produced
the same effect in different pIaces.-Pet Int.