The bladders of the curious water weed - Utricularia - still occupy the attention of the curious in the Old World. The fact that these bladders caught living things was first observed in this country by Mrs. Mary Treat, of Vineland, N. J.; but the fact does not seem to have at racted the same wonderment in America as in the Old World, where it is a continuous topic with newspaper writers. The bladders are very small, not much larger than small bird shot, and when the magazines which love to-put the sensational into scientific topics talk about the plant being a dangerous enemy to the fish culturist, we have to make all due allowances. Very small fish are caught, and larger ones, as Professor Mosely says, held by the tail till they die; but these unfortunates will be but a small portion of those that would be caught and eaten by the larger fish. Very few of the immense number spawned reach maturity, plentiful though the stock may seem to the fisherman. For what purpose the bladders catch the animalculae and minute creatures is not known, if, indeed, there is any special purpose of this kind.

Professor Mosely says that it has not been found that there is any digestive operation going on, as it is believed there is in some of the carnivorous plants, more properly so called. - Independent.