{"newspaper_name": "The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware register.", "edition": "01", "page": "p1", "byline": ""}
um in Church st.--fhis astonishing insect
is about one inch and quarter in length,
and what's wonderful to relate, she carries by
her side, just above her waist, two brilliant
lamps. which she lights up at pleasure, with
the solar phosphorus, furnished by her ma
ture. These little lamps do not flash and
glimmer, like that of Fire Fly, but give
steady light as the gas light, exhibiting two
perfect spheres. as large as minute pearl,
which affords light enough in the darkest
night, to enable one to read print by them.
On carrying her into dark closet, in the
daytime, she Immediately illuminates, her
lamps, and instantly extinguishes them on
coming again into the light. But language
cannot describe the beauty and sublmity of
these iucid orbs in miniature, with which
nature has endowed the queen of the insect
kingdom.