Show LIFE LARGE AND SMALL some interesting reflections on the size of living livine things are aie made b the rioted scientist juian P S huxley m a magazine article many of the facts ze which lie he relates are not only interesting but surprising cherr we speak of liing things in the broad sense we mus must t include the vegetate vege tabe kingdom so the largest living things ere are to be found among j the ug bi trees in california those these in ij ci dentally are also the oldest odest with an j age of arund years j these trees some wei weighing ghInA nearly neaily 1000 tons are massive indeed when aberl compared with the largest anini the whale whose weight seldom reaches more than tons yet a I 1 large elephant could maneuver a whales skin mst wonderful is what we ve find among the orders of life we I 1 can see a aldai though with difficulty catch him yet would weigh scarcely an ounce some of the insects which are liard ay y visible to the raked iye eye are fitted out with compound eyes a nice nervous sy system sein three pairs of jaws andl and i throe pairs 01 0 legs veined andI and j and striped Mu Mus eeles tiny birds bird weighing only 10 gai grains ans or about a as much as 10 large ants fly thousands 1 of miles during their mi rations sTation and I 1 ants by the way the neet living things in pi liopo OF to their size man is 13 about halfway half way in the scale between large and small mammals aboudi and when grown he contains about a hundred million eels cells he requires quires re all I 1 his brain as wel as his strength to cope with the mart amirr animas on one side and the insects on oil the other oilier aej then there are ale al e the microbes mic robes to about |