Show A gallant tho mayor of a french town had in accordance with tho the recent regulations to mako make out a passport for a rich and highly respectable lady of its his acquaintance who in apito of a slight disfigurement w wai quite vain of her personal appearance pe arance ills native politeness prompted him to gloss over tile tho detect defea t anil and ator after a moments reflection lie ho wrote among the items of personal description eyes dark beau beautiful ti fit 1 tender expressive but one ot of t them it c in missing WONDERS OF THE SEA tue cuttlefish cuttle fish which among other strange things always walks with I 1 its ts head downward does not chow its food at all but masticates masti cates with its gizzard LATE investigations have determined that tho the majority of deep sea depression como come from other than volcanic origin and that the coldest waters ot of the ocean stand in ili tho the deep troughs instead of 0 running as aa was formerly thought to bo be the caso case A ay r interesting fact just ascertained by government observers Is that at tho the extremities of long island sound tho the tado begins to flow inward near nar n ar tho the bottom one and one half hours before it begins to low flow in the same direction at the of 0 the water tun tm experiments ot of marine biologists in up tip tho the dwellers of tile tho deep by the aid of th electric light have hao shown that tho the light may bo be used in ordin ir om commercial mercial fishing with profit if ifan an etrio light Is lowered into tho rea ineido in ilda a tow not more hah fish than would naturally bo be taken aro are attracted into its meshes i AMON amosa O tho the exhibits in tho the edinburgh international exhibition are some beautiful spoils of tile tho sea collected by 1 the eastern telegraph company one of these a specimen of sit boldi is particularly interesting it was dredged from 1300 fathoms in the indian ocean and consists of thu tho root or anchor by which tho the sponge fastened itself to the bod bed of the ocean it is 10 twenty eight inches long and it Is believed bo to bo be M joanos kikm m l S secured aurea vr life such as fish lobsters q etc have tho the habit at tho the very first apprehension of danger of darting rapidly away arid and of stopping equally quick they seem scorn ito to understand that a very few yards will got thom beyond tho the v vision of their enemy the shading of tho the water varies from blue to greenish objects Object sata at a depth of thirty foot tako take a blue tinge and at from seventy five to rl ninety feet tho the light is such a deep blue in that objects of a red shade appear black tho the fact of tin tb blue rays ot of light penetrating so much further than those of any other color renders it possible to bring vh photography to till aid tho the hub marino explorer in ills his investigation its as to tho the real depth that light does succeed in ina making icing wit ita way tin till deep sea rea Is full of wonders The roaro aro fish living two thousand six li hundred fathoms down somo some blind others almost eyeless oyo lead which are so compressed from tho the wet weight lit of the water that whon when brought to tile tho surface sur fico their bodies expand tareo miles down thero there la Is no light and no change of temperature being no light there la Is no vegetable growth and the elsh feed on each cacti other at least so many of them a us s havo have tooth probably do so those without tooth to BO doubt food feed on ani malculm from prof talta taits experiments it seems that at a depth of six miles the thelea aca is compressed about six hundred and twenty foot feet may this compression long continue for should it cease something liko like two million square miles would bo be inundated |