Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1884 — Page 3

LIVING IN A SEA-CUCUMBER.

The Cartons Fiih Which Exist Inside an Animated Lodging-Hon se. In walking along the half-submerged fringing reef of the Tortugas group of islands my attention was attracted by numbers of great, black, worm-like creatures strewn over the bottom just within the breakers. They were Holothurians. or sea-cucumbers. The seacucumber looks like a great, grotesque caterpillar, made out of leather and filled with water, and handling causes it to eject two streams cf water with considerable force. After placing one of them upon the seat of the boat, we found that the creature had ejected all of its interior organs-actually thrown them off. This would have been a grievous calamity to almost any animal except a sea-cucumber; but they have the faculty of reproducing lost parts to a wonderful degree, and if placed back in the water would soon provide themselves with an entirely new set. If kept for a long time without food, a ring will be formed about the tail which grows deeper and deeper, until finally the piece drops off. In a short time another ring appears and another piece is sacrificed—a most remarkable operation, you will say, *but quite ingenious when we understand it. The animal is merely retrenching, and as the food supply becomes smaller and smaller, portions of the body are thrown off, so that there will not be so much to feed, until at last the sea-cucumber •will sacrifice its entire body to save the mouth or head, and finally this dies. I caught one and put it in a glass jar. Being a large animal, it had soon exhausted the air in the water, and twisted its body deliberately about to show its discomfort, for the sea-cucumber and all ether water animals require air just as luiv ias ourselves. For several f moments the sea-cucumber writhed about in its lazy fashion, when, all at once, out of one end I saw peeping a curions, delicate head. A moment later it was still further out—a transparent, shining fish, and soon, with a convulsive wriggle, it freed itself from its strange prison and swam about a moment, then settled to the bottom. Its body was so delicate and transparent that print could almost be read through it, and a specimen that I have before me now, though shrunk and hardened in alcohol for several years, is still almost like glass. But how did the fish get in the seacucumber ? This was, at first, a puzzle, and to ascertain whether it was accidental or not, we collected a large number of cucumbers ( Holothura fioridiana), and in nearly every case, as soon as the animal had exhausted the air in our aquarium, the silvery, eel-like fierasfer—for this is the fish’s name—would come wriggling out, swim about for a moment as if dazzled and bewildered, and then sink to the bottom and die. It was evident that the fish was not eaten by the liolothurian, and equally plain that the fish was not adapted for the outside world. Hence, we assumed that the tier as ter was a boarder in the cucumber, and such is really the case. Though I made many experiments, the fish could never be induced to return to its home, though freshly aerated water was constantly supplied. The conclusion that seemed most tenable was highly improbable, and so the puzzle remained until it was solved by the curator of the great aquarium at Naples, Italy. He found that his sea cucumbers were also inhabited by a fierasfer, and, by carefully watching them, he saw the fishes come out and return. In the. large tank the fishes ventured out, swam around, and probably fed, and finally returned; and here is probably the most remarkable I)art of it. Instead of returning head first, as you would naturaly expect, the fierasfer slipped, not its head, but the tip of its tail into the orifice. In a moment the sea-cu-cumber relaxed to draw in water, and the cunning fish slipped in an inch then rested; another., relaxation by thq cucumber, and another inch gained, an 4 so on, until, to the -amazement of the Italian naturalist, the fierasfer disappeared, tail first, within the very accommodating animal. The fierasfer then is a boarder in the sea-cucumber, a tenant that not only lives upon its host without pay, but does not hesitate to attack it when hungry. * This has been proved by Prof. Semper, who found pieces of the water-lung of thjß living hotel in the stomach of the boarder ; but, as we have seen, the former is able to reproduce lost parts, and probably does not suffer. The boarder also undoubtedly feeds upon food taken by its host.— Prof. Holden , in Golden Days.

Strange Playfellows.

The following account of the remarkable friendship between the elephant “Queen” and little Don Melville is taken from the article by John If. Coryell in St. Nicholas: “When he could just toddle, Don would run up to Queen with a chuckle of delight, and putting his white, plump little arms around her great brown, hairy trunk, would tug away with all his little strength, as if he believed he could pull that living mountain over. “And, strange to say, he actually accomplished his object, for Queen humored the little fellow’s fancy. Swaying and rumbling with delight, she would gradually allow herself to come to her knees, and finally to fall over on her side. And it was touching to see how all the time she kept her eyes lovingly on the beautiful baby, taking care that no movement of hers should even disturb him! “When she was at last prostrate,' Don would look around as if to say, ‘See what lean do!’ Then he would imitate what he *had seen the trainer perform. He would clamber and climb until he was on Queen’s head, and there he would sit, with the air of a conqueror. HPwas quite likely to thrust his little fist into the elephant’s eye or to swing his foot into her mouth, but not a motion would the patient creature make while he sat there, for she seemed to knew that he was not very secure in his high perch. “Sometines Don would carry his pic-ture-blocks to Qneen, and together they would build houses. Don would put on one block, and then Queen would take one up in hert nnk and put it in its place as carefully as if she had

been used to the game all her life; and when Don would kick the house down, as he usually did when it was about half built, his merry laugh and her thunderlike rumble were something worth going miles to hear. “It never seemed to occur to Don that there was anything odd in his companionship with the gigantic creature; and had it entered his Uttle head to do so, there is no doubt that he would have proposed a walk in the fields with her, with as much innocence as if she had been a small dog.”

“Coon Los’, Shuah.”

“Doggone es dis coon hain’t los’ hie6elf, shuah!” was the exclamation that saluted the ears of a Detroit business man as he was passing up Jefferson avenue on his way to the Brush street depot. Looking up, he discovered the “lost lamb” in the person of a very black man, over whose face doubt, perplexity, and interrogation were alternately struggling for expression. “Where do you wish to go?” asked the gentleman. “To de depot, boss. Ter see, I’se cook on a pahlah cah, an’ I come up hyah totin some does. De man said I should go down to some street—l done forgit es it was Badwatah or Backwatah, leastwise it was some kind o” watah—an’ I be doggone es I hain’t hunted in de dahk fo’ dat street mcre’n a bou’ah, tell I reckon I done loss de street, de depot, an’ myse’f, too.” The gentleman piloted the perplexed individual to the depot, and as they reached the corner of Atwater street, the face of the “lost one” lighted up as he exclaimed: “By golly, I done passed dis hyar cawnah ’bout free minutes ago. ’Spec’ de ’lectrum light mus’ ha’ bin blowed out. Beckon dey hain’t much ’count nohowfindin’ streets in de dahk,” and the sable stranger headed for his “pahlah cah,” which he discovered standing on the track, after offering profuse thanks to the man who piloted him “out of the wilderness,” and expressing his contempt for “’lectrum lights” as street illuminators in the most pronounced terms.— Detroit paper.

How Mexico’s Popular Beverage Was Discovered.

Somewhere about the year 990—50 the legend runs a Toltoc Indian, whose name was Papantzin, was the first to discover that the juice of the maguey (Agave Americano, better known to us as aloe or “century plant”) might be distilled into a beverage fit for the gods. Desiring to bring this new blessing into royal favor, he called his only daughter—Xochitl, signifying “the flower” and commissioned her as cup-bearer to the King. This ancient Hebe, we are told, was young and beautiful, and the monarch not only drank and praised the pulque, but wedded the maiden; and to this day the beverage of old Papantzin—who was no doubt called “Pap” by his dutiful children —is the universal beverage of the lower classes in Mexico. Maguey is as much of a feature of this country as trees are of the United States. All over the land it flourishes, cultivated with care in many places, growing out of bare rocks on the mountain side, and springing up as a weed in the waterless deserts. It has an infinite variety of uses, and is to the Mexican Indian what the reindeer is to the Esquimau or the rice-plant to the Chinaman. Cor. Pittsburgh Dispatch.

The Cathedral in Mexico.

The great cathedral in the City of Mexico is the largest in America, and cost nearly $2,000,000. It was commenced by the Spaniards in 1573, on the site of the old Aztec temple, or pyramid, and finished in 1607. Its facade is beautifully carved. Against its western wall leans the celebrated Calendar Stone, covered with hieroglyphics and weighing twenty-five tons. Its cast, which the Mexican government,is at present engaged in taking, will be exhibited at the New Orleans Exposition. Within the cathedral are a number of paintings, some of them said to be the work of Murillo.

Against Light and Knowledge.

Smith —Beastly headache I have this morning! Too many brandies and soda last night, I’m afraid. Brown—Don’t feel up to much myself; had lobster salad for supper and haven’t slept a wink. Jones—Well, just look at the frightful cold I caught last night. Brown—Why, where were you ? Jones— At the health exhibition. Smith and Brown (together)—Why, so was I. [All groan]— London Fun.

Mrs. L. E. Hillis, of Elgin, 111, has a copy of the well known poem: “Oh, Why Should the Spirit of Mortal Be Proud 1” in the handwriting of Abraham Lincoln. She was once a member of a concert company, which chanced to put up at the same hotel with Mr. Lincoln in a Western town, when he was a candidate for the Presidency. In the evening the singers entertained the company in the parlor for a time, and then called upon Mr. Lincoln. “My friends,” said he, “I couldn’t sing a tune, not even ‘OldHundred,’if it were to save my life, but I can recite a poem for you.” Then stepping to the other side of the parlor that he might face them all, he said: “I will recite to you what I consider one of the finest productions of the English language,” and then in an impressive manner recited the poem. As Mr. Lincoln was leaving the room after his recitation, Mrs. Hillis asked him who the author of the poem was and where it could be found. Lincoln replied that he did not know. "But,” he added, “if you wish it I will write you out a copy of it.” The next morning while Mrs.' Hillis was eating her breakfast, Lincoln handed her the copy he had promised. It was written on the old-fashioned blue legal cap. Fruit pickers have adapted glass jars for putting up fruit They claim that owing to the habit of unscrupulous dealers of putting up decayed and inferior fruit in tin, it became necessary for their own protection that they should use a transparent vessel, through which the contents can be seen. The glass jars are about 10.) per cent, more costly than the tin cans, but can be used any number of times.

What He Said.

They tell strange stories of English clergymen of the olden tim& There was a certain Dr. Farmer, an Oxford don, who had a country living near the university, which he was accustomed to serve with great punctuality. He a man of very unclerical demeanor, and one day in a barber shop he was reminded of the fact in a ludicrous manner. “Well, what news?” said the clergyman to the barber, as he took his seat in the chair. “I saw Tom, yesterday,” was the artist’s reply, “and he made such a bad remark about you!” “What was it?” asked Farmer. “Indeed, sir, I could not tell you; it was too bad to repeat.” The clergyman insisted on knowing, and at length the barber, with a great show of reluctance, replied: "Why, sir, he said you wasn’t fit to carry meat to a bear.” “And what did you say ?” asked the Doctor. “I said, sir,” replied the barber, with enthusiastic loyalty, “that you was!”

The Biggest Blunders

Made by man are those which affect the relative conditions of health and disease. Among them are the resort to violent medication, the obstinate adherence to dietetio rules without reference to their adaptability to the system, and worst of all a disregard of small ailments. Extremists who are guilty of such follies deserve to suffer. The use of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, the abandonment of dosing, the selection of a diet consonant with the stomach, and a prompt resort to the first—these are conditions precedent to a recovery of sound digestion, the restoration of vigor, biliary activity, and a regular action of the bowels. It is a fatal delusion to suppose that minor ailments wear awav of themselves. Diseases, no matter how trivial in their inception, beget others. In the earlv stages of fever and ague, rheumatism, dyspepsia, constipation and kidney troubles, a prompt recourse to the Bitters is a wise precaution.

Its Vast Extent.

Nearly all schoolboys are familiar with the fine passage from a speech by Daniel Webster in which he alluded to the territorial extent of Great Britain’s possessions. He spoke of the morning drum-beat keeping company with the hours and saluting the flag of Great Britain as the sun journeyed around the earth. Sir Kicharcl Temple, at the scientific meeting at Montreal, read a paper on the vast extent of the English power. One-fifth of the habitable globe is under the sway of Queen Victoria. Her subjects number 315,000,000, and Australia and Canada have room for 200,000,000 more. The annual revenue of the empire amounts to $1,018,000,000. Local taxes swell this sum $305,000,000 more, so that the entire cost of government is about $7.50 per capita annually. These are impressive figures; but our own country is rapidly overtaking Great Britain in wealth and population. Our relative increase is much greater. In the pregnant words of Prime Minister Gladstone, “the United States is passing England at a canter.”— Demorest’s Monthly. The Mason & Hamlin Upright Pianos are pronounced to be, like the organs of the same company, the best of their kind. The refinement. and purity of tone attained in them are especially commended. —Boston Journal.

Mules and Horses.

The question as to the Btatus of the mule in the animal kingdom is a muchmooted one here. An ordinance was passed by the Council some months since prohibiting certain animals, among them horses, from running at large within the city limits. Mules were omitted—accidentally, it is supposed. The owner of one of these animals was arraigned before our former Mayor charged with violating the ordinance in question. He pleaded in bar of the offense that mules were not included in the ordinance. The Mayor accepted the plea and discharged him on the ground that “a mule was not a horse. ” Since that time the owners of these kicking quadrupeds have not been slow to take advantage of the decision, as well as of the defective ordinance. The present executive, however-, has just fined one of these parties, deciding that in contemplation of the law “a mule is a horse.” — Roanoke (Fa.) Cor. Lynchburg News. * * * Loss of power in either sex, however induced, speedily, thoroughly and permanently cured. Address, with three letter stamps for reply and book of particulars, World s Dispensary Medical Association, Stitt Main street, Buffalo, N. Y. A Chicaoo surgeon advertises to cure bare-lip. He don’t give his name, but it is probably Philip.

The Half Was Never Told

of the wonderful powers and Virtues of that best of all medicines, Kidney-Wort. It has been tried and proved, Its cures are numberless and the record of (supposed) incurable cases that have yielded to its influence, is a.-t.ounding, If you have trouble with your Kidneys, Liver, orilowels, if you suffer trom Constipation and Piles, if you are a victim of Rheumatism or Malaria, take KidneyWort. You will find it the remedv vou need. A Chicago detective has partially reformed, and become a bank robber. —lioston Fust.

Horsford’s Acid Phosphate.

ADMIRABLE RESULTS IN FEVERS. Dr. J. J. Hyan, St. Louis, Mo., says: “I invariably prescribe it In fevers; also in convalesence from wasting and debilitating diseases with admirable results. I also find it a tonic to an enfeebled condition of the genital organs.” ’

Binoular that electric light companies should be so largely composed of heavy men. t2B~ A pint of ihe nnost nut lor families or schools can he made from a 10c. package of Diamond Dyes: Try (hem. All druggists keep them. Wells, Kiehard=on & Co., Burlington, Vt. f ample card, 32 colors, and book of directions for 2c. stamp. A sign of an early fall—A bar of soap on the cellar stops.— New York Journal. Any lady who d sires further information than can be given in the limited public spaoe of newspaper columns can obtain Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkbain’s pamphlet, "Guide to Health, ” by sending a stamp (O Lynn. Mass. A placard at the entrance of the Reno (Nev.) Jail reads: "Standing room only.”

A Case Beyond Help.

Dr. M. H. Hinsdale, Kewanee, 111., advises us of a remarkable cure for consumption. He says: “A neighbor’s wife was attacked with violent lung disease, and pronounced beyond help from quick consumption. As a last resort the family was persuaded to try Dr. Wm Hull’s Balsam for the Lungs. To the astonishment of all, by (be time she bad used one-half dozen bott ea sbo was about the house doing her ovn work. I saw her at her worst, and had no idea she could reoover."

A Printer’s Error.

Sweet are the uses of adversity, the pt Inter'S copy said, but he set it np, sweet are the uses of advertising. Sweet, indeed, to thu»e who in sickness and subermg have seen tho advertisement of some sovereign remedy, which upon trial has brought them irora death's door. “The best thing I ever saw in my paper was the advertisement of Dr. Pierce's "Golden Medical Discovery,' ’ 'is a*ain and again the testimony of those who have been heated by it of lung disease, bron.hial affections, tumors, ulcers, liver complaints, and the ills to which flesh is heir. Wht is whipping a mule 60 much like playing an organ? Because if you don't G sharp you will B fiat.

“Nip’t in the Bud!”

Sad to say, many a good th ng attains to nothing more than a fair beginning. On the other hand it is a matter for on that the growth of some evil things may be also promptly frustrated. A large proportion of the cases of the most wide-s; read and fatal of disea.'es—consumption—have their inception in nasal catarrh. Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy is pleasant, soothiug and effectual. Try It. It has cured thousands. All druggists. A New York man is living with a bullet in bis brain, and a Newman man Is still alive with his brain in a bullet.

Important.

When you visit or leave New York City, save Baggage Expressage and Carriage Hire, and stay at the Grand Union Hotel, opposite Grand Central Depot: 600 elegant rooms fitted up at a cost of one million dollars, reduoed to tl and upwards per day. European plan. Elevator, Restaurant supplied with the best. Horse cabs, stage, and elevated railroad to all depots. Families can live better for less money at the Grand Union than at any first-class hotel In the city.

Pneumonia.

If Compound Oxygen were promptly used in an attack of Acute Pneumonia there would be few deaths from this disease. Its aotion in allaying bronchial and pulmonary irritation, relieving congestion, aitd restoring healthy secretions to tho mucous membranes is most remarkable. Write to Drs. Starkey & Pftion, 110'.) Girard st., l’hila., lor information in regard to this remarkable treatment.

“Put up” at the Gault House.

The business man or tourist will find firstclass accommodations at the low prlee of $2 and $2.50 per day at the Gault House, Chicago, corner Clinton and Madison streets. Thin far-famed hotel is located in the center of tho city, only one block from tho Union Depot. Elevator; all appointments first-class. H. W. Hoyt, Proprietor., In a letter from HbN. Mrs. Perry, Castle Grey, Limerick,lreland, Brown’s Bronchial Troches are thus referred to: “Having brought your 4 Bronchial Troches ’ with mo when I came to reside hero, I found that aftt I had given them away to those I considered required them, the poor poo pi o will walk for miles to get a few.” For Coughs, Colds, and Throat Diseases they have no equal. Sola only in boxes. For dyspepsia, indigestion, depression of spirits, and general debility in their various forms; also, as a preventive agaim t fever and ague, and other intermittent fevers, the 41 Ferro-Phosphorated Elixir of Calieaya,” made by Caswell, Hazard & Co., of New York, and sold by all druggists, is the best tonic; and lor patients recovering from fever or other sickness it has no oaual.

Catarrhal Throat Affectlons.HaoklngJrrltating Coughs, Colds cured by “Rough on Coughs." 26c. Sing a song of hair oil, Pocket minus chink, Four and twenty editors Spilling printers’ ink; Now the pen goes faster, Wonder what they mean; Guess they must be writing ads. For the improved Oarbolino. “Buchu-Paiba.”—Quiok, complete cure, all annoying Klduey and Urinary Diseases, sl. I had suffered from Catarrh for ten years; the pain would be so severe that I was obliged to send for a doctor. I had entirely lost sense of smell. Ely’s Cream Balm has worked a miraole.—C. S. Halleys, Bing, hamton, N. Y. "Rough on Itch” cures humors, eruptions, ringworm, tetter, salt rheum, frosted feet, chilblains. For several years I was troubled with Catarrh, have tried many remedies. Ely’s Cream Balm has proved tho articlo desired. 1 believe It is tho only cure. —L. B. Coburn, hardware merchant, Towanda, Pa. See adv’t. “Rough on Rats”—Clears out rats,mice,flies, roaches,bed-bugs,ants, vermin,cbipmunks.lsc

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