Show singular Sin galar ocean sponges A singular ocean sponge is the glass rope which bends down into the mud a coiled wisp of filaments as thick as a knitting needle the latter opens out into a brush fixing th creature in place after the manner of a screw pile still an other remarkable sponge ia found in tho deep n islands it spreads out into a thin circular cake surrounded by what looks like a fringe of white floss silk yet another cur dosity is the sponge of the philippines which lives embedded to its lid in the mud and supported by a lovely frill interview in washington star the ivory nat in sooth america the ivory ant la grown in the equatorial regions in south america the principal point of shipment is colon on isthmus of panama like the banana the ivory nut is perennial in its native cloae and may be found in all stages from the bud to the ripened nut at all seasons of the year the nuts grow in great bunches of abent fifty in cased in a shell as are chestnuts in the burr though the shell outwardly resembles in roughness the surface of a pineapple the entire cluster of nuts in thia shell is as big aa a mans head this shell comes off easily after the nuts are ripe at this stage they fall from the trees which are fourteen or fifteen feet in height and are packed on the backs of natives to the points of shipment they are about the color of an unwashed last years potato and as hard as an elephants tusk new york telegram |