Mel Lincoln Journal (undated)

workers do all the labor of the hive, collection of honey etc. when a swarm of bees becomes too large one or more queens are produced a part of the colony together with the old queen leaves the hive to find a new home, this is known as swarming. The young queen with the remainder of the colony remains in the old hive, a honey bee is said to sting a person but once after which it dies this is because the stinger is provided with barbs and the flesh of a human being being so solid the stinger cannot be extracted and frequently as the bee flies away apart of his intestines are pulled away and left hanging with the stinger, this is not true with the bumble-bee. In fall drones are killed to save food.

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Arachnida This class includes spiders, mites, scorpions, tranantulas, etc. The spiders are a very extensive group, they are practicly harmless, the tarantula is harmful. The daddy long legs resembles in a way the spiders, the differ however from them in the possession of claws and also in their respiratory system; they live in hiding in the day time and emerge at night to capture insects from which they suck the juices; they like spiders are benifficial. Echinodermata This group contains the star fishes, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, etc. The star fishes are provided as a rule with five or a multiple of five, arms. On the under surface of each arms is a system of tube feet. They travel slowly over the sand by filling these tube feet with water and thus pushing themselves along. Each is provided with an eye on the end of each arm, it is said that a star fish may be cut into as many pieces as it has arms and each arm will reproduce the lost parts, thus making five star fishes istead of one.

Chordata The Chordata comprises a great group of animals posessing a spinal chord among the lowest of animals is a small group know as Ascidians [os sea] - squirts. The Ascidians are among the very lowest of the group and poses a chord known as the [notochord]. The young when hatched resemble tadpoles; after swimming about for a few [abows] they settle down and are attached to some objects; the rest of the live from this point on , degeneration [ennes], The Tail disappeared and with it the [noto] - chord and the greater part of the narrow system. Other changes take place [mTail] finally their is little left in the animal to remind one of a vertibrate.

Fishes The lowest of the tree [reertbrateo] are the [feiheo], they are possessed of an air bladder, which is many [eares] at least series as a float to keep the fish suspended at a [defan] level. By contracyion of muscles surrounding the air bladder the air is [olien] out and the fish gradually winks. [Geep] sea fishes when brought to the surface where the [prem]

slight have their air bladders so distended that they can not sink again. Morphologically considered the air bladder is a degenerate lung and in many fishes is lost altogether. Fishes breath by means of gills, which are covered with flaps on the side of the head and which are of a high red color, owing to the numerous blood vessels with in them. The fish in breathing opens its mouth gulps in a quantity of water, closes it again, contracts the side of the throat and forces the water out passed the gills. The gills absorb the free oxygen from the water