... he observes Englishmen eat, drink, work, and play as machines rather than men, and, as far as sensa- tion goes, are mere jelly-fish; all brain work is irksome to men living in a constant vapour-bath, and the chief advantage of such a life is the satis- ...

... were a jelly-fish great and good, To svima and f waner away, Oh, what a jelly-fish I would be ! To no matter where, andI no matter why, But I can't be a jelly-fish, e'en if I would, Like yonder pale jelly-fish out in the bay, And so, as a jelly ...

... Mr. Romanes's on the beginnings of nerve-tissue as first found in the ascending series of animal life in the Medusoe, or jelly-fishes, are both singularly able papers, but, as may be imagined, of a highly technical character.-Mr. Walter Pater gives us a ...

... process. Thus it is possible that a vertebrate species should perish, but not that its descendants should be saved by becoming jelly-fish or by growing a new pair of limbs. In the same way it is possible and probable that the morality of civilized nations will ...

... 'MANAGuRa or TltE COURTrS POINT OF ViEw. -A Clerical Error : Taking orlers. A SniIP has been delayed on the Equntor by jellyfish. Our parallel is the frequent stoppage of traffic in onr streets by sla is. ANOTIHER, VnE0SION.-Discredit is-thrown on thePhila- ...

... trickling down the pen and diluting the ink and pickling the words, and making the wet paper as pleasant to write to as a jelly-fish, and as appetizing to sleep as a salt-lick. A frog is had beet as a fellow in green tights ; a ragged boy looks as if ...

... fair article ( Living Lamps ) on the light-giving creatures of land and sea, from the fire- fly to the phosphorescent jelly-fish ; and a good paper, all Artist's Strolls in Holland, to which is prefixed a very fine wood-engraving of Rembrandt's ...

... real medusas which under- te-l business of propagation, the whole ?? united. There are also speci- anens of the meduste, or jelly-fish, which when a ye *paatetheir pretty belle fringed with 0 oisred~ntatestihough the water. There are apg:ecnene of rib jclly-flsb ...

... the Chinese who mre clever enough to utilise the jelly-fish for the table, and even they only contrive to turn an honest penny out of the blubbering organism by an ingenious system of drying. Jelly-fish catlet, or haunch, has yet to be aohievedt even in ...

... for the person wuhotu it is 10'V fashionable to describe as the sociologist. Ordinary zoological clhat about field-mice, jelly-fish, and other assorted animal inhabitants likev.-ise makeC ip a considerable proportion of the volume. Nor is remote anttrohology ...

... casiot hielp thinking that there nust have been a good deal of valuable emotion thrown away in the year 1835. What an anmeic, jellyfish sort of creature must the playgoer of the present day seem to the venerable Maxime du Camp. METZLEiR ZAND Co. have recently ...

... isnal pam,;na tion that humanity becomes headless, trunkless, limbless, aud i; converted into the pulseless, non-verLebrate, jelly-fish sort of thins which, ?? packed in tin-cornered boxes, is sent from the !,odtor depot and scattered through the drawing-roomns ...