Show TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA no DOUBT exists as to tha i fact that many deep sea animals lo though the precise nature of the mechanism for its always certain 1 l THE the of highly saline seas are cfall respects i different from fresh water alasa they constitute two independent orders one of which is adapted by its organization I 1 to fresh water the ot herto salt water are the with their fins prolonged many times as long as the body aad there are other strange 1 pointed tails and look more like nightmares productions of matter of 1 anc whale Is no more a bat is a bird its young are bom kittens arid the only one at a time the young whal takes ay iy at its mothers breast just JELS the human baby does and iCis just as carefully watched and guarded by ita parents r v to the depth of two hundred fathoms where daylight disappears the eyes of a fish grow constantly bigger and bigger beyond that depth small eyed forms set in with long feelers to supplement the eyes sight in fact is here beginning to atrophy in alie greatest abysses the fish are mostly blind 1 1 vl S THE spanish mackerel smooth cose shaped body is ampong the swiftest of fishes and for speed only finds a parallel in the dolphin there is a great be tween these trond tw ond laih cuthbe cutt be water like a yacht the first follows the fastest steamers with the greatest ease in its dashes swimming at five times their i speed THE method by which fac arches tor food is peculiar he taps the sandy bottom with his head guided apparently by scent only when tha tactile filaments find something edible lie immediately seizes it with a vigorous and sudden snap of the lower half of the jaws where the teeth are situated but never snaps at any thing not first localized by bis feelers |