Prest Oun Own ComEsronseyr Watingfu, Sung, Feb. 19.
A. correspondent with the lich to willie would no doubt have found something to write about during the winter months. But we all hibernate "las much os possible' when the thermometer registers 30 degrees below freezing point, and hibernation demands a Fabre to make an interesting story of it.
'On one' sunny day, however, we come out of our burrow and made a more than usually close investigation the "moth-eaten" walls of our city, resulting In an Interesting discovery. The walls were built two or three centuries ago by pounding lime and earth in movable wooden moulds, section by seclfon, much as the adobe walls of the houses in Yunnan are bbullt to-day. What then, we wonder~ ed, was the cause of whole sections of the outer casing falling away,. and chiefly "from below upwards?" found innumerable signs of tiny earth nests with radiating tunnels, all between the sections, caused by.a small brown grub, In time, slab after slab hho thus been Toosened, alling away by' their own weight' and Touving regular weather-beaten sections near the top and fresher looking inner se¢- tions below.
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