Show SHUT OUT WATER AND DUST nature haa provided for the dermat hoi met leal closing of nostril nostrils of seal and camel cam most of us when we ue eo go in for or ahing have the very unpleasant ant experience of getting our nostrils full of water nature did cot vot design man ti to be a diving animal otherwise she would have been as cleer with his nose as its she has beta ben m with ith scale seals london tit bits says the seal seat la Is without doubt the cl v erest diver in the animal world and his Is a very ingenious contrivance indeed lach nostril Is provided with muscles which close it bermet hermetically leal at of the owners will and the shape of the nose Is such that when the nos tails are closed not a drop of water can enter with seals the cl of the gostrue at the moment of diving has become an automatic process this Is mond wonderful erful enough but we can see a still more remarkable application of the same some principle in an animal as far removed from the seal as chalk Is 13 from cheese the seal sept Is to a water mater animal the other owne of trapdoor nostrils Is the camel an inhabitant of the driest jars of the world orld the water lesa sandy deserts now ow wiy may should the camel require such an apparatus he ile la Is not troubled with water but he Is troubled with dust not the dust that we see in this country but the fierce blinding dust dusts storma of the desert these are so violent that tiny par tides an are driven into tha me works of 0 even the most finely made watch atch vi which aich becomes at once clogged and useless it if the camel bad not nostrils which were perfectly dust tight he could never endure the dreadful band sand and dust stormy |