Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1888 — JELLY FISH AND SHRIMPS. [ARTICLE]

JELLY FISH AND SHRIMPS.

■ ■ . ■ —J •‘Play ball.” The National gam* is on. Th* A meric tn Association season began on the 18th and th* League on the 20th. A Chicago syndicate has purchased the Indianapolis street railway. They ought to implore the street car service a* a preliminary move to gain the good opinion of Inditnapolitans. Judging from what we learo it could be no worse.

Thk most abominable instance of tyranny of the majority ever exercised > in America,outside theological disputes, io the act of the State Board of Health of Illinois in undertaking to revoke the license of a physician for having advertised in the newspapers. Bat the court has decided that the board has do such power. 'lf it has power any way approximating such autocracy it should be deprived of it. Every man his an inherent right to employ any one he chooses in cases of illness, and the physician has a right quite as inherent to announce his profession and make himself know nto the people. There is at least some ignorance, if not a touch of quackery, in all men. Just law has nothing to do w ith such quackery unlesa it proves injurious to patients. In that case let the law work with generous equity, and punish those who do not advertise as well as those who do.

They Lay Down Together with the Shrimp Inside. World o! Wonders. If a boat is auch*red in anyone of the channels which separate the quicksand of the mouth of the Thames when the tide is running f.at during calm summer weather multidudei of jelly-fish may be seen floating just below the auifice. Borne are no biggir than teacups, and others ire the size of a l»ijri btsiu, and they all have some curious markings on the top, ani move by cminding and and expanding the lower p .rti of their bodies, Hourafier hour th* sc beautifulthings float by, and tbe’r number are incalculable. If one iaciught with the band the fingtn usually perfcrate its j-1 y-like strnc ura, and if it is placed on a beard the creature seems to run away in the Lrm of water. Now a great many of the larger kind, when care fully examined, are fiund to have within their large stemteh asir all white shrimp With meet beautiful emerald colored eyes. It was supposed that there shrimps formed the food far the jelly-fish-or-me-dusa' as they are properly called; but careful invts igations prove that those lively little creatures with the Beautiful eyes only exist in the larges medusae, and that they make of the wandering messesof anima’ jelly their home and larder. The sbr mp soon die 3if is taken from its shelter, and specimens of it are never found saimming with the common shrimps which live in the B<a around our coasts, The shrimp lives at the expense cf the jel y-fish and feeds upon se me of the small c-eiturrs which are entangled by the psculiar structures of its month. The jelly fish floats along collecting food and killing every small living thing that touches its stinging body, while the shrimp enjoys itself and lives inside, out of danger and in great comfort. The sbrimp swims in and out, and is never harmed by the deadly poison of the wonderfully sharp, stings of the medusa. Now the most wonderful part of this singular history is how the jelly-fish and the shrimp come together. There are no jelly-fish in the winter and early spring, and the whole of them die in the autumn, shrimps and Before dying the shrimp leaves the stomach of the jellyfish and lays its eggs at the bottom of the shallow sea. The jel'y-Ssh lays thousands cf tiny egg), which being covered with small movable hairs row themselves into quitt rocky nooks on the coast and settle down. These eggs become adherent to pieces of shell and stone, and do not turn to jelly-fishes any more than a butterfly’s eggs turn to a butterfly. A stem springs from them, and branches aiioe from it all covered Aith. tiny cups, whose rims are crowded with small arms called tenacles. This is the first stags of the jelly-fish’s life. Now the shrimp’s egg Latches at out ihe same time as the stem jmt mentioned begins to grow, and the young shrimp is not at ah like the old one: it has a big head, a small body, and very long legs. In; the fi r. part of t hHiexistencelhfliallyfiah and the shrimp are eeparateand unlike what they euuseqaentiy turn to. As the warm weather comes on the stem with its Li aQchwand -eup=like gin to bud, and after a while out of the buds spring tiny jelly-fish, which toon swim ofl. About this time the young shrimp casts his skin and grows into the form of the old one, and it invariably seeks shelter in the stomach of the firs: young jelly-fish it comes across in its swim-, ming to and fro. This extraordinary circle of events goes on year after year, and the rear on- why the young shrimp should seek an animal totally unlke itself and very fatal to other shrimp?, is one of those things in nature that no one can understand. Certs i nly no other kind ot shrimp could live in the medusa’s stomach. v