... Colours. silent waters, a few days, in the culmination of the heat, bring forth translucent living creatures, many-shaped jelly-fish, coloured like mother-of-pearl. And elsewhere she speaks of the passing from the winter blue to the summer blue, from the ...

... the ocean faster than the ordinary rowing-boat can be propelled overhead, provided that the machine does not skid upon a jelly-fish or any such slippery customer. So, at least, I gather from an American journal, which contains also a portrait of the gentleman ...

... telling it is as conspicuous in his writings as in his speaking and, as with ants, so with such unpromising subjects as jelly-fish and flounders, he contrives to lay his finger upon any peculiar lurking interest accruing, and presents in an entirely new ...

... before bringing it up to town, I could not but revert to the old extemporised comedy. The piece was still in its amorphous or jelly-fish stage, and was never performed two nights alike. On Monday, the first act would go with a bang, and on Wednesday it would ...

... merits over the edge of the precipice. There is at present a revolt against strong plots, but a piece as invertebrate as a jelly-fish stands on too high a plane. We should have been gently led towards it with some such line on the programme as a play without ...

... was first seen as a blaze of light as large as a bucket, ten or more feet below the surface, and supposed to be a large jellyfish. The finder called it a 4 fire-barrel,' not an exaggeration, as when the strange object reached the surface it was seen to ...

... polishing man's understanding. P he question whether bathers are more likelv to be bitten in half by sharks or stung to death by jellyfish is still exer cising the minds of cheerful scientists, but the proprietors of bathing machines find no falling off in their ...

... in deep water awaiting the arrival of their principal food the curious little thimble fish, like ill-formed, dark green jelly-fish, the size and shape of a thimble. We saw an occasional hawksbill, from which tortoise-shell is procured, feeding upon the ...

... snaky tresses of Medusa and the tentacles of these soft-bodied animals. The family and its near relatives include hydroids, jelly-fishes proper coral polyps and sea anemones, and though they are of a higher form of life than the foraminifera, or the sponges ...

... keep it from fouling the bottom, where other wise it would have become entangled with weeds and slimy with the movements of jelly-fish. In spite of the helpful corks on the pot-strings, the hoisting of thirty heavy craes from a depth of six fathoms within ...

... have gladly accepted the principle of universal military training, would send their battalions and squad rons to help a jellyfish country that could not coax enough of its young men into its battalions to bring them to the strength which was the minimum ...

... armour. The catch is not limited to herrings; gurnets, whiting; weavers, and mullet, all are taken toll of. Slimy strings of jellyfish and crabs get caught in the meshes. Dogfish with a fiendish partiality for the best herrings, which they select with unerring ...