... STINGS OF JELLYFISHES. The stinging threads of the common jellyfish (Aurelia aurita) are not strong enough to pierce the ordinary human skin, but bathers on British coasts have sometimes painful ex_ perienoe of the virulence of the orange or the blue ...

... possibly that seen in the jellyfishes. All these organisms are provided with stinging-cells, called thread - cells; but in many species the darts have no power of penetrating the human epidermis. The common species of jellyfishes can be handled freely without ...

... thread - cells; but in many species the darts have no power of riictrating the human epidormis. The common species of jellyfishes can be handled freely without unpleacznt results, but many kinds, on the ether hind, sting very severely indeed. Each thread ...

... black pigment. The eye of the eagle may stand for the first, and the eye-spot of the amp/mu-as or the eight sense•germs of a jellyfish for the other extreme of the series. ...

... The parent-stock is stationary, fixed by its stalk ; the jelly-fish are set free, as sons and daughters leave the ancestral homesteads, to rove the seas and found new settlements. The jelly-fish, though it so quickly conies to grief when washed ashore ...

... behind his boat. This peculiar world of life ineludes glass-like fishes (the young stage of eels), crpualline shrimps, worms, jellyfish, swimming snails, and a vast nuniber of minute transparent larvae, or young forms of animals, which in later life sink to ...

... taught the cheetah not to cheek The lion not to lie; The gadfly not to gad so muck, The spider not to spy. He taught the jellyfish to jell, The adders to add right, Taught centipedes to earn a eel* And sunfish to shine bright. Ah! yes, he was worthy man ...

... analogous means of offenoe or defence, as the case may be, writes Dr. Andrew Wilson in the Illustrated London News. From the jellyfishes. and their neighbours upwards, poison glands and darts are by no means infrequently met with. The insects are thus armed ...

... mrachance you do so, you always return as time reveal+ that we travel not by the narrow gagger. that we own no kinship with the jellyfish, and have no affinity to the feline species, that, in filet. though inclined to be Vayful with unconscious humorists and ...

... the dwellings in a forget-me-not style. And Sir Joseph Banks found that the South Ova Isla, eter s were fond of decaying jelly-fish. *Thidigh after they had eaten it, he adds, l confine I was not extemely loud of their company. Perhaps even more disgusting ...

... Nothing exists outside the limits of Natural Law, and Natural Law was evolved from the inner consciousness of a jelly-fish. What the jelly-fish was evolved from they do not explain. This noble and comforting creed is waking great strides, and in these days ...

... of the House of Commons, and at the futile attempt to twee a clay Government with • portion of iron to keep it from the jelly-fish order. A. Unionist-Liberal, in Toesday's impression, In reply, sets out with the maxim that, where • necessity exists, the ...