Show MINUTE SHELLS I 1 wonders of the coat comi or of ireland there is a sandbank at Con on the wast castr coast of ireland that is the mecca of every curiosity abel soaker er who is toi fortunate enough to know of its existence tence As a g general dl thing sandbanks sand banks banki arbnot are not 6 a great attraction but in this particular case the attractive power is is not in the sand icse if hat but in the mn lions oi of extinct miniature shem shells which are I 1 almost lindst it us as numerous as tha grains gra ins of rand band with which they are intermingled the lar largest larest est af of these little wonders wanders are km smaller UA than arn i head gria and some sam of them are arii BO so minute that they can caad easily be put through k the eye of a comman common se ving aib needle ule yet each is as perfect as the paa pearly arif nautilus the spider shell tue the i se ea urchin or any other marine oddity they are of all shapes and f forma imaginable one will ha have reAlie the perfect outlines of a miniature basket another will hilll look ol 01 like a faires tobacco box bos while a third needs no effort of the imagination to give it the form of IL a bottle I 1 the jile flash shells of ceylon and australia are re the only 0 living representatives of these wonders naturalists Natura lists who have examined the ceylonese flash flaa shells say that each is ia filled with th a tiny bit of a jellylike jelly like uke substance which of ourse course I 1 is ithe ahe animal itself but which h is so in that no distinction can b too 0 observed between head and heart heark mouth and stomach deh |