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10th of July 1924.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JUNE 20. 1924.

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THE JELLYFISH.

Venomous “Ghosts of the Sea."

- Not long ago Dr. Paul Bartuuli, of the Smithsonian Institution, was an eye-witness of a thrilling and nost unusual form of death |-| a you diver stung to đóath in the Contacion of a huge jollyfish.

Lately Dr. Bartsch, writos Popular Science Siftings, has boon. making a study of jollyfishos- in Florida waters, whore thos0 vonomous "ghosts of the sou," s they are called, are so numerous that he was obliged to wear tall boots and otherwise protect him- solf against their stings while walling. "Ono, night s woll Lauch living lire," he says.

The victim of this horriblo form of dasth was a young, man, He dived into the sea, and by ya most unfortunato accident camo up banoath the creature's um- brella. Its Tentacles were in- stantly wrapped about his head and the vandm they shot int him so paralysed him that ho sank and drowned.

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7th September.

4th. September 5th October,

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Lewis Radcliffe, who arcom-.. panied Dr. Bartsel on his re- adventures, Was 50 badly stung by a jollyfish that he was laid up in bed for forty. eight hours. Dr. Bartsch tells haw, when exploring for spwci-

through such swarms of jelly- fishes that there seemed almost to be more jelly than water. I is his conclusion substantiated by his recent findings, that all jully fishes are venomous..

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But it is the large specimens found in offshore water worth of Cape Cod and in the wartner eliinatos that are dangerous, Sometimes their umbrella shaped bodies attain a dinmoter of wight feet and they have tentacles 120 foot long.

ANIMATED SEAWATER,

A jollyfish is a highly organis ed animal, with a complex nor- yous system. yet, it is hardly more than animated souwator,' as Professur Alexander Agassiz romarked. It is actually 99 per' cgut. water. If one be placed on à clean sheet of white blotting paper and left a few hours, alt; that remains will be a slight stain.

Jellyfishes are of many specios,

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In its liquid state it, is subject to contamination from the time of milking, and bacteria always propagate in Bquid milk at an unbelievable rate when not kept under ideal conditions. During transportation, on the delivery route, at the doorstep, in the kitchen and even the lce-box, milk is

ages" rapidly as the bacteria grow. To pge is to hase freshness is to lose its health susta'ning' qualitles,

Bolled milk is spoiled milk so far as taste is concerned. Vet many housewives boil it to kill bacteria and make it safe.

Milk is the drink of all, but is absolutely the mainstay for children. It is their natural foud, But the cholce between boiled milk with its freshness gone and unbolled milk with its potential danger is a hard one to make.

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varying in size from a pinhoud to ing nervous system of the animal, eggs, and thus the cycle is made monsters such as those bovo nad thus the slightest contact complete.

described,

Then

AN ODD FASHION. Tea Chewing In Siam. Tou is native to Siam, growing

Multitudes of tiny will cause thousands of darts to But most of the very large onos often CLUSO 超 brilliant shoot forth from the toutaclus. species have a different method phosphorescency over wide areas Euch dart carries only an infin- of reproduction. The egg, 801 of the ocean.

There are large itesimal quantity of venom, but free in the water, develops into wild on the hillsides in the north. species which, brightly luminous wounds inflicted, by a great many a pearshaped kurva, which for a While it is also cultivated to a at night, are called by sailors of them inltaneously may tus while swins rapidly about buingimited extent. It lo not used by * fire balloons.“

happened in the ease of Mr. provided with hair-like append the natives generally as a bo They have the shape of an Radcliffo) disably a man,

ages that serve the purse of vrago, tou drinking boing con- umbrella, from the margin ofi The darts are shot out with our

the larva saules lined largely to the foreigners and which hang numerous tentacles such furce as easily to pierce a down. anchors itself to the hot those Saimose who bave adopted armed with stiniging

cells. person's skin. As for the poison tom, increases in size quite fast, curtain European customs.

In the mountain valloys the Beneath the middle of the budy they carry, what is it? The anand finally splits up into this,' is the stomach and mouth of the swer is that nobody knows ex-flat dises which swim off and practice of chewing plckled toa creaturo.-It-swims-by-rhythmic-actly.-It-is-a-complex-chemical-grow-up-into-big-jellyfishoy. ally opening and closing the um compound, and. like the venom Of this type is monster brella. The tentacles are used of the honeybee, consist chiefly, jellyfish, the largest specios for the capture of pray stall of formic acid. fishos and crustaceans, which are paralysed by the stings and thon devoured.

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loaves is common and peculiar to Upper Siam After-the-plucked. leaves have been exposed to the known, which fishormen call the sun for a few days they aro "da blubber." IL is dark amber steamed to remove all tannin, Jellyfishes are wholly earn-in colour, and apparently grows than thrown into vessels or into vorous. They are also cannibals in a twolvemonth from the size pits in the ground to forment, The sting of a large specimen eating one another when uppert of a penny to a body diameter off after which they are ready for is so powerful as to give a shock unity servos.

When a fish is so severi or eight font, with tentacles 80. A ball of this "mieng,"

it is called, is placed in the check, comparable to that of an electric anlucky to swim into contact 100 more feet in length. A for.

Continued battery. Manifestly the vanom with one of these sea-ghosts, the midable sea-host, truly! Though where the action of the saliva ex--

the juico. tracts carried by jellyfishes must be tentacles seize it, paralyse it with the statenon vannot be made strong stuff, but not until very a thousand unvonomed darts, and with absolute certainty it is practico produces a large swell- recently has anything been de-having- thus rendered the prey boloved that no jullylish livsing on one side of the Taco BB. if the person were suffering from finitely known about the offen-helpless, contract and bring it up more than a your.

toothache writos Mr. Frank R. sive and defensivo equipment of to the remorseless mouth. After SNAKES IN LIEU OF HAIR.

Oriental Trade Eldrigo in ghosts of the those

" it has been retained in the All of the umbrolla-liko jolly-Methyls. creatures well nigh devoid of glomach a few days, the mouth fishos bolong to a family known to substance, yet so formidable.. rejects the undigested remains. science as the "medusao" boing

Distributed along the tentacles Thus far nothing has been said | named after the fury of an ancioat(colour. It flats vertically at of the jellyfish are thousands of about the way in which jellyfishes anythology who wore snakes in the surface of the sea, the upper "nettle celte, in each of which reproduce their species, which is lion of hair. Of a differant, being a chambered float filled in coiled like 門 lusso long really very wonderful. With most though related fainily, are the so- with it. Along the top is a sort throad-like tube with a dart of of them the beginning is an ogg, called "Portuguese men-o- of frill, which, to the famagination intonceivable sharpness on the which, lying on the bottom, pro- War, of which immense swarms of marinets, has suggested o end of it.

duces 11 bouutiful, tree-like are found in tropical Atlantic likeness to suil. Numbers of little Erected upon euch nottle cell growth. Tho "tree," fastening wators. It was one of these that ones aro cozistantly bruding off a ting "trigger hair," which, itself in the bottom of pseudo-stung Mr. Radcliffo so sovurely. from it and swinning away. if touched, sots off the whole | rootlets, brings forth buds which, The body of this tropical july- From the body hang many long mochanism. The trigger hair whon ripo, drop off and dévolop fish is an oblong dise four inches tentacles on the undor side are communicates with the ramify into jellyfishes. The latter lay long, and a deep blue-groen in sovoral flogershajød mouths,

IN

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I AINT ROOLIN" EITHER- SEE TH QUARTER THÈRE? GEE, 7 NEVER.IN ALL MY LIFE HAD A WHOLE QUARTER T' SPEND FOR, CANDY —

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