... the sponge is thereby established, unless we class the sponge with the sensitive plants. Of course the reader knows the jelly-fish, or sea blubber, so often cast upon the sands, especially after a gale. Medusa is the scientific name, and beautiful is ...

... sun was in his. eyes. We never tasted oysters opened by an amateur with- out fancying we were swallowing a mixture of bad jelly-fish and gritty gravel-walk. We never won a fifty of a gentleman at billiards who called the marker by his Christian name, ...

... cupboard with a loaf of sugar, and you can see whether he will break it up with his nippers. Besides crabs, I used to find jelly-fish on the beach, made, it seemed to me, of sea-calves feet, aud no sherry. The mermaids eat them, I suppose, at their wet water ...

... very best novels she frivolous calls.— Little Amy the blue. If I get her to go for a stroll by the sea, She describes jelly-fish : ( 6 Sertular ice are really nothing to me ; I respond with a whish! If with her, in the woodlands I dream of my love ...

... produced scarcely any. At a meeting of the Vienna Academy of Sciences, Herr Kner communicated an account of a medusa or jelly-fish, which was some time since found fossil in a piece of flint in the chalk deposits of Galicia. Owing to the action of the ...

... TRANSPARENCIES. By a Msgosins Poetess. If I were a jelly-Bah great and good, Oh, what a jelly-fish I would be! But I can't be a jelly fish e'en if I would, And so, as a jelly-fish, look not on me To float away on the roaming wave Whithersoever the wave might list ...

... FllOK ouR CHEF.—Cucumber to the salmoa, fennel to the mackerel, and a salad to the lobster, bid what, ye diners-out, is the jelly-fish r DON'T ALL SPEAK AT OSCE.-Plenty of the people are ready—too ready—to give tongue but who is prepared to come to the fore ...

... would have res ported ths Uiown your («nkly poUtely. had and ymi uodervtaad that wae not .Mulkai with end that was act mere Jelly-fish J-ii'aboat your own will, hwm But your hsaper-up the burning ooais and long suffering ia vary bumble , *: that cringing ...

... parts, in Tht Timts. If this review be not a complete answer to Mr. Darwin’s etrange theories (of man being descended from jelly-fish for example) it all events gives the author some very, very hard nuts to crack. Alluding to the report that the member* ...

... highest stage of advancemat ; or as Mr. Darwin would put it, as a continent where man has furthest developed out of his jelly-fish original. Of all the peoples in Europe the French have professed to be the most refined ; and of all the sections of the ...

... produce any creature in the transition state, t changing from one to another of those innumerable stages between the primeval jelly-fish or even the gorilla, and monkey, or baboon, from which all men° originally sprung, according to Mr. Darwin's remarkable ...

... prier-side, before embarking, a few casts of a muslin bag were rewarded by two beautiful specimens of berm, a tulip-shaped jellyfish that floats mouth upwards, its delicate whiteness brought into relief by fine pink lines, along which rows of vibratile Alin ...