The Cheyenne Daily Leader

Spiders Beat and Eat Their Spouses.

Everybody has heard of those savage tribes (locality, South Seas, I believe) whose members deem it a bounden duty to brain their aged parents, and thus save the old folk from the trouble and bother of living on; while the economic side of this barbarous custom may, of course, also be considered. Something equally distressing has to be chronicled of the spiders, for it is certain that Mme. Spider is on the whole a regular virago. She beats and mauls her husband, and if police courts existed in spider society the magistrates would have a busy time of it in the way of fines, imprisonments and judicial separations. Not content with exercising marital authority, in the reverse order to that in which this species of command is usually exerted, Mrs. Spider has actually been known to make an end of her mate by slaying and, distressing to relate, by devouring him also.—London News.