Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1893 — Cannibals of the Ocean. [ARTICLE]

Cannibals of the Ocean.

Such fierce carnivorous fishes as exist in the depths of the ocesn are unknown at the surface. There is a “blade swallower,” which devours other finny creatures ten times as big as itself, literally climbing over its victim, fisat with one jaw and then a ith the other. Another species is nearly ail month, and, having no power of locomotion, it lien buried in the soft ooze at tbe bottom, ita bead alone protruding, ready to engulf any pley that may wander into fta cavernous jaws. There is a ferocious kind of shark, resembling a huge eek All of these monsters are black as ink. Some of them are perfectly blind, whileothers have enormous goggling eyes. No ray of sunlight ever pierces the dark, unfathomed caves in which they dwell. Each species is gobbled by the speeiaa next bigger, for there is no vegetable 'ife to feed on.—f Chicago Herald.