ear pieces of paper into the form of
butterflies and launch them into the air about a vase full of flowers;
then with a fan to keep them in motion, making them light on the
flowers, fly away, and return, after the manner of several living
butterflies, without allowing one to fall to the ground.

Marksmen.--It would be an incomplete paper on the acute development of
the senses that did not pay tribute to the men who exhibit marvelous
skill with firearms. In the old frontier days in the Territories, the
woodsmen far eclipsed Tell with his bow or Robin Hood's famed band by
their unerring aim with their rifles. It is only lately that there
disappeared in this country the last of many woodsmen, who, though
standing many paces away and without the aid of the improved sights of
modern guns, could by means of a rifle-ball, with marvelous precision,
drive a nail "home" that had been placed partly in a board. The experts
who shoot at glass balls rarely miss, and when we consider the number
used each year, the proportion of inaccurate shots is surprisingly
small. Ira Paine, Doctor Carver, and others have been seen in their
marvelous performances by many people of the present generation. The
records made by many of the competitors of the modern army-shooting
matches are none the less wonderful, exemplifying as they do the degree
of precision that the eye may attain and the control which may be
developed over the nerves and muscles. The authors know of a countryman
who successfully hunted squirrels and small game by means of pebbles
thrown with his hand.

Physiologic wonders are to be found in all our modern sports and games.
In billiards, base-ball, cricket, tennis, etc., there are experts who
are really physiologic curiosities. In the trades and arts we see
development of the special senses that is little less than marvelous.
It is said that there are workmen in Krupp's gun factory in Germany who
have such control over the enormous trip hammers that they can place a
watch under one and let the hammer fall, stopping it with unerring
precision just on the crystal. An expert tool juggler in one of the
great English needle factories, in a recent test of skill, performed
one of the most delicate mechanical feats imaginable. He took a common
sewing needle of medium size (length 1 5/8 inches) and drilled a hole
through its entire length from eye to point--the opening being just
large enough to admit the passage of a very fine hair. Anot