. St. Nicholas [serial]. THIS FISH CAN GIVE A STARTLING ELECTRIC SHOCK. provided with an organ, consisting largely of ajelly-like fluid, which enables the animal to give A rambler in the forest is often surprised to findwhat seems to be a twig alive. This is the walk-ing-stick insect. It has many relatives in the in-sect world, the family name being Phasmidac,from a Greek word meaning an apparition, aname that fits it well, for indeed it looks like theghost of a twig. The accompanying photographof this insect on a real twig was sent to by John Boyd, Sarnia, Ontario, Canada. igii.]
. St. Nicholas [serial]. THIS FISH CAN GIVE A STARTLING ELECTRIC SHOCK. provided with an organ, consisting largely of ajelly-like fluid, which enables the animal to give A rambler in the forest is often surprised to findwhat seems to be a twig alive. This is the walk-ing-stick insect. It has many relatives in the in-sect world, the family name being Phasmidac,from a Greek word meaning an apparition, aname that fits it well, for indeed it looks like theghost of a twig. The accompanying photographof this insect on a real twig was sent to by John Boyd, Sarnia, Ontario, Canada. igii.] NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS 941. WALRUS ON FLOATING ICE IN THE ARCTIC REGIONS. WALRUS AT HOME Through the courtesy of Mr. Harry Whitney,we here present an extremely interesting photo-graph of walrus on a cake of ice in the arcticregions. A young walrus from the Whitney Ex-hibition is now at the New York Zoological will be recalled by our readers that we pub-lished on page 841 of Nature and Science forJuly, 1911, an account of the young walrus fromthe Whitney Exhibition now at the park. MEMORY ROOT, AND WHY Do you know the memory root ? inquired oneboy of another, during a ramble in the woods. No; what is it, and why is it called that? Come here and look at it, and I will tell youwhy, said boy number one, showing his compan-ion a root of the Indian turnip; and, as they bentover it, he continued: I once dug up one of these plants, and, beingyoung and foolish, I tasted it, taking a very littlepiece to be sure. Just at fjrst it seemed all right,but in a moment —phew ! I thought I had tried toeat red-hot needles
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