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Show Earthquakes Under Seas. Twenty thousa id leagues below the sea the earthquakes make as much commotion as n terra flrma. The latest volcanic ?niDtion of Vesuvius was observed w th respect to its effects ef-fects in the Gulf of Naples by Dr. Sal-vatore Sal-vatore lo Bioneo, The day before the eruption not a sardine was to be caught in the neighborhood, although it was the height of the sardine season, sea-son, for by some sixth sense the fish seemed to know of the impending disaster. dis-aster. The spawning of fishes was retarded; re-tarded; oysters, clams and their kin were killed, and there was great mortality mor-tality among other types. Fishes that frequent deep waters were somewhat protected from conditions prevailing at the surface and escaped death, but evidently they were thrown into a panic pan-ic that caused them to leave their natural nat-ural hunting grounds, for men fishing in small boats caught species which never had been brought up before except ex-cept by a special deep water dredge. I The minute plants and animals comprising com-prising plankton, which form the main food stfpply of many of the marine animals, an-imals, were largely destroyed to a depth of ten fathoms, and. as a consequence, conse-quence, the scarcity of the food caused the death of the fish to such an extent ex-tent that in Sardinia the fishing industry in-dustry practically was ruined. One oft the most curious effects of the shower of cinders was to cause certain animals ani-mals to throw off all appendanges in the endeavor to protect themselves. The lobster is one of the familiar animals ani-mals that adopts the philosophical plan of giving much to save more, and when caught will automatically detach a 'claw and leave it in the hands of its captor in order to escape with the rest of its corporeal entity. The serpent starfish adopts the same policy pol-icy in time of danger, and as it is exceptionally ex-ceptionally well provided with arms", its chances of escape by autonomy are correspondingly increased. When the shower of cinders descended into their world the animals accustomed to this mode of defense responded to the disturbance dis-turbance in the usual way by throwing off their appendages, repeating . the process as the irritation continued until un-til they were completely dismembered. |