The people of Java use an ingenious contrivance that serves both as a flashlight and a place of confinement for fireflies. It is a shallow wooden dish on the bottom of which there is pitch. Fireflies are made captives by sticking them on this material. A lid that is pivoted on one end permits of [...]

The animals that the early settler; found in Australia looked very strange to them. They saw none of the animals that they had known in England. Instead they saw strange animals they had never seen or heard of before. There was a tall animal with short front legs and very long hind legs, and a [...]