Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1888 — An Ocean Masquerade. [ARTICLE]

An Ocean Masquerade.

■dmund Wlbon In Bt. Nicholas, , r , Altogether, you can hardly.help fancying that the sea-slug has dressed himself up in the sea-weed’s clothes and is playing a sort of masquerade. But the sea-stag has been disguised as a plant for a good reason. For the sea is full of hungry fishes, always roving about on the lookout for just such a tidbit as a sea-slug. The sea-stag therefore has been colored and shaped like the sea-weed it lives on, in order that, when some sharp eyed fish comes swimming along, he may never dream so tempting a morsel to be so near. I suppose he looks at it and turns up his nose, saying to himselt. “Pooh! that’s nothing but an old sea-weed!” and off he goes, while our sea-slug no doubt laughs in its sleeve and says, “Sea-weed, indeed!” The wonderful resemblance is an example of what naturalists call “Protective Resemblance,” which in this case is so perfect as to merit the name of ‘Mimicry.” Because you see, the animal mimics the plant, and is thus protected from its enemies. Annihilating a Multiform Disease. Mbumatlc, or malarial disease has many forms. PhyjlcT ns have, for the sake of convenience and for the purpose of'indicating its most strongly marked forms, subdivided It into intermittent and bilious fever, dumb ague and ague cake. But 11 present! an infinite variety of symptoms in different individuals. Be these symptoms what they will, a ways remember that Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters will annihilate them at the outset, and prevent their recurrence. A review of the proofs woild convince any one of the fact. This, however, is impossible, because they are too numerous, and unnec wary because the effects of this grand anti malarial specific are a matter of common knowledge No less familiar to the public are its remid'al and preventive effects in bilious attacks, constipation, dyspepsia, incipient rheumatism, debility and Sidney troubles. It is, moreover, an excellent appetizer and tonic nervine. The rag-gather’s business is picking up a little.