Show LITTLE SEA MOUSE Romar remarkable kgb Is in the lower branches of organic life A few days ago wilen they brought me a fine specimen about four inches long of that strange creature the sea mouse dredged from the sandy hot bot torn tom of loch ryan I 1 began to late darkly upon the significance ol 01 the generic name aphrodita bestowed upon this lowly invertebrate by lam track for it Is no mouse but a worm belonging to the class animals which being still in a primitive stage of development enjoy the enviable privilege of liping able to replace any organ e even ven a head ot of which they may be bereft by accident or assault at first sight no living creature la Is less ess suggestive of the goddess of love its general outline being that of a gl gantle wood louse and its ito structure but an oblong mass of integument and viscera yet on second thought it appears not inappropriately termed born of the sea foam am ephros and it if beauty of form be denied to it compensation Is made by an n extraordinary loveliness of color the breathing apparatus consisting of external branch lae like silky bris ties arranged all along the sides of the animal shine with a luster as dell deli cate as and more brilliant than a neck n eck pall mall gazette |