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... inhabitants of an aquarium with the point of his gold pencil, in the apparent hope of getting up intimate relations with a jelly-fish. He would beguile the golded inmates of a crystal globe by tearing up minute fragments of one of his visiting cards, and ...

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... geiseral, and tlse heat of the sun in particular; thence everytibimg - erratic biosks, masarble, coal, chalk, protoplasmia, jelly-fish, turtlo-soup, chab-feet, wooden legs, Bengtid tigerE, Shakespeare's plays, Bain's Logic, &c. The s cause of nil these is ...

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... referring to. And I t Miia w WeRi-y coingratulate our gallant countryman thsta aszoliz,-h bewas unforttsnately Sttung by ia jelly-fish, lie was VW& Nmeor tIhe neOossity of slaying nilsne nicke'rs, nor of rki- wnf2s,_1 Beowvulf is salid to have done, for ...

CHRISTIMAS BOOKS

... animal kingdom, whose forms or habits are remarkable. The reader is conducted to the homnes of the frog, the newt, the jelly-fish, the crab, the dolphin, the seal, tc., shown how they conduot themselves there, and told amus- ing stories about them. The ...

THE MAGAZINES

... loads of inedusce to his fields for manure, but few are aware that, according to Proiessor Owen's estimate, the ?? in a jellyfish weighling 21b. amount to about 30 grains, thus giving about 41b. of solid matter to thc toln. The Valley of the Amnbleve ...

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... imagiation of the poet. With the inhabitarts of mountain, forest, and loch, from the eagle to the wr`q from the seaJ to the jelly-fish, whether regular residenters of the locality or only fleeting visitors, Mr Smith seems to be on terms of intimate acquaintance ...

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... the jelly-fishes exhibit, accrdig to Haecie}, tire chief types. There is firstly indect development, in which the egg of the jelly-fish, settling down. i gives origin to a polyp or plantlike creature, or nurse, from which the young jelly-fishes of the ...

THE JANUARY MAGAZINES

... possessed by numerous and widely separated members os the animal A kingdom. The phenomenon has been ob- lo served in the jelly-fish, the sea-anemone, B the microscopic rotifer, the sea-pen, the star-fish, many marine wormi, certain species of crabs, various ...

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... essays, as we ?? have said, are popular, and treat of many *d subjects. He tells us much about fishes and ie fishing, about jelly.fish, sponges, coral, oysters, i- pearls, and seals. He treats of animals in their ig relation to man, of extinct animals, and ...

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... dialogue as it stands would be suitable for the stage, but the best farces are not readable. The iucident of Mr Fielder and the jelly-fish, wnich bas nothing wihatever to do with the . main story, is by iar the best thing in tie book. r It is contained in chapters ...

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... objects delineatei vere sharks, dolphi oh, dugoug, turtle, boomnerans, waddles, shields, soomerahs, pigs, dogs, bird's, jellyfish, I t$\ ?? se of the Alert : Fo',r Ymeaai i' r aoseiait rly- &%Sioa, and Maca ene WAdne's. iSiS 8g f;y li. M .kooppinse, itw ...

THE MAGAZINES

... Gladstone and must have its fling, but it may live tosee that Liberals are not so supine as it chooses to assert. The jelly-fish politicians - who are so transparent, it says, that one can see there is nothing in them - may be flabby and helpless ...