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Show Something About Coral. Those Irregular branches, so prettily pret-tily red and shining, aro all small skeletons skel-etons of tiny animals, lowor in tho nutural order than Insects, and thoy como from tho Mediterranean, whoro for ages and ages thoy havo beon growing at depths of flvo or six fathoms. fath-oms. What a vaBt multltudo of coral an-ImnlB an-ImnlB thcro must bo to rear wholo recfB of coral underneath tho waves, structures so firm and well built that thnt thoy form Islands on which mun llvo and form cltlod and ply commerce. com-merce. Bermuda, so near our own shoros. Is guilt on formations of cornl rod, white and black, tho latter holnc nv far tho rarest and most vnluablo; whtto coral Is not worth much. It Is found nonr Coylon, Coral has often been mado uso of In sculpture. Thero was formerly In tho Tullorlos at Pnrls a chessboard and sot of chessmen carved from this protty substance |