... after all, only (u]fillin* their natural | destiny. And learn the lesson taught by the poet who wrote: S 0 give the stranded jelly-fish a shove into the sea. Be always kind to animals wherever you may be. | The solemn thoughts twhich are conjured |’ Inp by ...

... what was the cause of the deficiency in certain years. Jellyfish constituted a great scourge, and in Scotland in some years their presence meant ruin. Fish outside would not come in at all when jellyfish were a mile or less from shore. He inclined to the ...

... the most part, since i that year. Few people, not being experts in i fishery matters, would suppose that the presence lof jellyfish near the coast in any considerable I numbers would have an injurious effect on the I salmon supply. Such, however, is the ...

... on, not only at home, but in the Colonies and in India. The difficulty was that they were criticising an administrative jelly-fish. (Laughter.) The curse of the situation was that no one was responsible. The very statement cf the Under-Secretary for War ...

... large sums of money to tee AA'ar Office under its present scheme of organisation. Tho s AVar Office was an administrative jellyfish, and it was simply impossible whan anything went wroug to filhcate- responsi- -6 ?? solong as nobody was responsible tiie ...

... turned from, the action injurious corrosive agents and from light, but is turned towards moisture. Experiments upon living Jelly-fishes have shown that motor-impulses can be transmitted from one part to another of the body of animal not possessed of any ...

... , Colonial statesmen and British politicians. There is a vast amount of truth in the differentiation. Our present jelly-fish rulers admit that they know no more about their business than the man in the street. NVe doubt if they know, or, at any ...

... losing dignity, it moat be remembered that the Council had a duty to pt no to the ratenaye: The Council must not be like a jelly-fish, bu moat do its duty, unpleasant as it sometimes watt. He 'lid feel surprise that one of the Council should hire made use ...

... regard to the wishes of all sections of itself; and is, therefore, driven to mike the whole a collection of ridiculous jelly-fishes, feebly flapping in a sea of troubles, and. destined to be cast up at the General Election and left to desiccation on the ...

... make it easier to do right, difficult to do wrong. And the resu't. would he a generation who. morally speaking. are the jellyfish order. no grit. no backh.fite. As Mr. Pitcairn has said more than once, that isn't God's way. neither the lunatic nor the ...

... peculiar irony, therefore, in the Duke s defection the year afterwards, when he described his former colleagues as row of jelly-fishes, beautiful creatures with a very delicate nervous system, but destitute a skeleton and backbone, making most wonderful ...

... one to whom water would add strength. We have also heard of a jelly-fish Cabinet, presided over, I think, by the present Chief. Some years ago, a friend who had been stung by a jelly-fish wittily described the creature as a bag of water with a little ...