Show A SEA venice lying in a babli of glory when eglit rails on the ocean during the whole of the past year as well as the last five months of the whole of the sea of venice has been as one vast expanse of phosphorescent waves whenever lashed to even the slightest extent by the formerly says the new york journal this luminous appearance had been noticed only at intervals of about ten or fifteen years achen only from the Le ginning of summer until about the end of harvest and in places abounding with sea grass now every thing seems changed the j whole surface of the sea or gulf appear ing as a sea of pale white fire as soon as darkness sets in on a windy night in calm nooks the mere drawing of a stick or cane back and forth through the water is sufficient to give the effect of an electric flash the light dying out and again returning with the ebullitions of the water A flask filled with the water emits no light until shaken violently the introduction of a lead pencil or small stick however will cause the fluid to glow with greater intensity than any amount of shaking on the part of the experimenter strained through a fine cloth the awater loses allot its peculiar properties they having been imparted to the cloth which now fl ickers and over the entire burbace like the spot where a damp match lias been scratched in the dark after the last mentioned peculiarity was noticed scientists made examinations of claths cloths used in such operations and were rewarded for their pains by the discovery of the hahe div ing midge a minute worm or maggot scarcely the one seven hundredth of an inch in length each bow shaped and very lively each of these little creatures is pro aided vided with twenty two instead of feet eleven on each side and has eleven luminous rings around his tiny body persons living on the shores of the gulf say that when the waters sparkle more than usual it is a sure sign of a storm |