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Show REPRODUCTION IN MICROBES. Two Million JiuUvlduttla From a Blnfflc SiH-.fmori. The old line of pseiulo scientists, tlie superstitions, self-styled "scholars'' of the early part of this and the latter part of the eighteenth century, believed be-lieved that lilth would breed microbes, but, as the absurd idea of "spontaneous "spon-taneous generation" has loii since been exploded, it will not be diseussed in this 'noU'.'- which is solely intended to explain the manner in which microbes mi-crobes multiply. There are several species of these minute creatures and thev have various ways of reproducing 1 heir species, but. the most common is what the investigators term "reproduction "repro-duction by fissure." If. with a strong1 microscope, we carefully watch a microbe mi-crobe for a short time we see a "constriction" "con-striction" appearing1 on each side in shows itself in the shape of a line across, and then, all of a sudden, the microbe separates in the middle and behold, we have two in place of one! Each of these rapidly increases in size until they are us large as the original, when the miracle of the side spots and transverse line appears and in place of two microbes we have four. liy this wonderful plan of reproduction one increases to two, two to four, four to eight and eight to sixteen until within the space of live hours we have two million wiggling individuals from a single specimen. |