Jelly fish.

@ HILE all of our little readers are acquainted with many of
the living creatures upon the earth, we wonder if they are
as well informed upon the curious and interesting living
things which live beneath the waves of the ocean. In fact

the animal life of water is far more wonderful than that of

the earth. In the ocean are found living creatures of all
sizes, from those so small that they cannot be seen with the naked eye, to
monsters so large that we can hardly believe they exist. Someare wonderfully
beautiful, alive with all possible colors and tints of colors, while others have
the most unsightly and ugly forms. Perhaps, among the most interesting of
these animals living in the water, are Jelly-Fish, as they are called, of which
there are a great many different species, and yet, each specie keeps itself sep-
arate from the others, and millions upon millions of a kind are found together.
So numerous are they in some places that they not only crowd the surface
of the sea, but the water is full of them from the depth of six feet to the
surface.

The Jelly-Fish are so called from the spongy nature of their bodies. In
calm weather they come to the upper surface of the sea in great numbers, but
they are so delicate they cannot stand the dashing, tumbling waves. When
the water becomes rough they quickly descend to the quiet ocean depths,
They do this by letting the umbrella or mushroom-like top of their bodies fal
down the side of their tentacles, in the manner of the one shown in the picture.
These tentacles, as they are called, are the arms of the Jelly-Fish and are used
just as people use their arms to convey food to their mouth, but the mouth of -
the Jelly-Fish is in a strange place, being underneath the body. The stomach
is under the umbrella-like top. There is one specie, also, which has no mouth
whatever, food being absorbed through the branching vessels. The Jelly-Fish
is fortunate in having a great many eyes, and these are placed around the rim
of the umbrella-like top. The Jelly-Fish are sometimes called Sea-Nettles,
because when they touch human flesh they leave a keen, stinging pain, similar
to that one feels when stung by nettles, only it is sharper and with more of a
tingling sensation. The feeling is very disagreeable and increases until the
whole nervous system is affected, sometimes causing a pain to dart through the
body as if a rifle ball had passed there. People who have come in contact with
Jelly-Fish have been greatly alarmed, sometimes believing death would follow,
though this is seldom the case. This uncomfortable feeling may last for