Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1908 — The Sponge Animal. [ARTICLE]

The Sponge Animal.

If the sponge as brought up fresh from the sea bottom were a familiar object few would be in doubt as to its being an animal. When fresh It is a fleshy looking substance covered with a firm skin, and if cut It presents somewhat the appearance of raw meat. Its cavities are Ailed with a gelatinous substance called “milk.” American Sponges and those of all other parte of the world are inferior to the sponges 1 of the eastern shores of the Mediterranean. The finest of all sponges is ibe Turkey toilet sponge, which is cup shaped. The American sponge most nearly approaching it in quality is ths West Indian glove sponge.