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Show I SMALL MARVEL OF THE SEA Worm's Work Seems Almost to Prove It is Equipped With Something Like Intelligence. The question of where intelligence hegins to manifest itself in the scale of animal life has often been asked. It seems to exist even in the lowest forms. A peculiar specimen of the in-verterhrntes in-verterhrntes of the ocean, an exceedingly exceed-ingly small worm so small that it measures less than four millimeters In length exhibits movements that cannot can-not be explained hy anything but intelligent in-telligent will. This midget senworia is n constructor; construct-or; he huilds a rampart in the shape of a tube, composed of grains of sand. His form shows a hanging double lip jutting like a fleshy precipice over a great mouth, four black eyes set in the front of his head and two tentacles which work incessantly, wringing and lashing whatever they can reach. It is with the same apparently nervous tentacles ten-tacles that the little monster of the deep seizes his material, the glistening glisten-ing sand, of which he constructs his rampart. He catches a grain of sand in his tentacles and Immediately carries it to his month. In his mouth nature secretes se-cretes a strong cement. One grain rafter another is covered with cement and rapidly accumulated in the form of a tube. . Naturally enough, when the builder works so fast, there must he breaches in the walls. These breaches sire carefully scrutinized by the worm, tilled with grains of sand and covered with cement. 'When finished, fin-ished, the tube is a very practical and creditable piece of work. Nothing could be more Interesting than the little workman's management of his tentacles. Again and again he tests the solidity of his work by tapping tap-ping the walls in every direction. To observe the work of this peculiar sea-; sea-; pigmy is to be convinced that the tube-, tube-, like rampart Is not built by accident. In such work there must be the participation par-ticipation of some sort of mentality. |