Identifier: scientific-american-1902-04-05 (find matches)
Title: Scientific American Volume 86 Number 14 (April 1902)
Year: 1902 (1900s)
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Subjects: feet scientific tion steam electric automobile tbe patent union pacific scientific american gas engine foreign trade sewing machine long island maximum grade glass palace wireless telegraphy lifting power
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ABOUT TO ENTER THEPLANT UNDER THE HOOD. against a pane in the window,- drop the curtains aboutthe jar, and unstop its mouth. The flies will in-variably make the most of the opportunity giventhem to escape; the bee, on the contrary, thoughpopularly supposed to be the wisest of insects, willbuzz inanely about the closed end through which thelight comes, without seeking to escape in any otherdirection. Light and liberty with the bee are syno-nyms, and she will perish rather than prove falseto her convictions. You can keep her confined withthe back door of her prison house wide open as longas you choose; she will not find her way out. Openthe window, reverse the jar, and she is off rejoicingabout her business, for she is a business female inthe strictest sense of the word, a person of regularhabits, wedded to a life of routine, within the boundsof which her abilities are indeed wonderful. Mr. Fly, on the contrary, an idle fellow, a manabout town, whose Irregular habits subject him to in-
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A BEE (CHALICODOMA) ERECTING A SKYSCRAPERUPON A CELL ALREADY BUILT. numerable perils, has developed a faculty for gettingout of scrapes which, though perhaps not equal tothat he possesses for getting into them, is superiorto anything of the sort his more industrious compeercan boast of. Near the cottage where an experiment similar tothe one here described was, in pursuance of the sug- gestion of Sir John Lubbock, tried, grew some pitcherplants; and toward these, as if to show that theinstinct of flies also has its limitations, the prisonerthat first escaped from the jar made his way. Thesepitcher plants are the tippling places of fast insectsof various sorts, particularly flies. Spread aboutthe opening to the vegetable saloons is a regularfree-lunch counter open to all comers. Mr. Fly, at-tracted by the drops of nectar upon the curious leafof the Sarracenia, unsuspectingly follows the trail oftreacherous sweetness to the portals of the vegetablesaloon where the nectar is abundant. He

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