Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1908 — The Amoeba. [ARTICLE]

The Amoeba.

The amoeba (Greek "change”), the supposed pioneer in the line of living forms, is a naked mass of living matter, or protoplasm, flowing out in all directions in “blunt processes,” and the endlessly varying form has earned for the simple animal the popular name of “amoeba” (Proteus animalculae). They are all minute, but some are distinctly visible to the unaided eye. The jelly-like creature the surface of stone or plant by the slow protrusion of its e\er changing processes and in this way gets around Its food. It is all stomach, any part of it taking hold of and digesting the food .that happens to come in contact with It On attaining Its maxitnum size the ‘amoeba draws itself out and breaks .into two daughter amoebas, each of which contains half of the mother nucleus. This simple organism seems to lexhibit in small compass the usual animal functions. It feeds, secretes, grows and reproduces itself.—New York American. Genuine “Quaker Parchment” butter wrappers, blank or printed, for sale at The Democrat office in an> quantity desired.