Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-09-07


 toric times. Could you tell me if sponges are or are not divided as to sex, as are most of the lower as well as higher order of life?"
 Yes. the question is really considered settled by late authorities. though at first in grave doubt. Even mollusks are. many of them, now so divided
 It is a wonderful study. Napoleon. the relation of the sexes, for instance. in the public schools of Spanish mackerel. and the communities of gasteropods, and the various types of conchiferS.
 Who would think that away down in the bottom of the sea where the bones of dead men lie covered with moss and the treasures that it has taken thousands of years to accumulate upon the face of the earth lie forgotten in the back ward of a polyp or echinoderm. the line is close Iy drawn, and the little spongcS, some Of them. are playing circus and pirates, while the others construct plavhOuses and carry dolls, while at the head of the school we may find large carriage sponge as tutor, who tuteS in summer and boards around sponging on her rela- tives i'll winter? All these are divided into two great classes, like the higher order of vertebrates.
 Is it not remarkable. Napoleon, that the sponge should love and be loved at the bottom of the deep, deep sea? Do you not wonder as you think that in the show window of the druggist there are fragments of broken hearts and envy and jealousy and unrequited love?
 Away down in the bottom of the sea, where the Atlantic cable and McGinty lie together, sponge yearns for sponge with great big yearn that distance and damp weather cannot destroy
 l once knew a little Qulet sponge that had no parents living, and she was given to lntrospeCtion and absorbed knowledge or anything else that came along, and she grew to be very beautiful. with blond tresseS and features enough for Sunday paper.
 She grew up under the eye of an uncle who did not care for her and who carved n such way as to give her the salty and dlsaSreeable end of the joint. and in other ways hr was unpopular with her.
 She loved large tan sponge with liquid eyes who sat near her on a rock the livelong day for 30 years. like an aris- tocrat. He spoke of his love to the cruel old uncle, but he told him to go and soak his head.
 And so while they suffered on. hoping for merciful death to come and carry of the old gent, she waS one day torn from the rock on which she had so lour been seated that she seemed rooted to the spot. and now far away. where even the murmur of the sea is never heard, she Is the top of a sour and unhappy muCilage bottle on the desk of a man who uses grammar that he has learned by ear and who gesticulates with his tongue while he writes and contributes the literature that is marked '.Comnu- nicated.'
 Yes, Napoleon, even into all sponge life some rain must fall
 Mortimer G. Tdd, Erin Prairie. Wis, writes: Il am a constant reader and a young man of 24 wears old. was en- couraged by what you have said to sort of branch out for myself and try ts free myself from my environments at home so as that I could. as say. branch out for self and get start. have no money to speak of, but felt that I should no longer be q burden on my parents. and they agreed with me.
 Il got on train and rode as far as I could, which brought me to small town, where thought l would practice medi- cine. There Were no other physicians there, and l got off there more on that account than anything else
 II felt encouraged to sort of make a large wild ass of myself partly because you had been through the same thing, and thought it would be exciting to be busted and trust in providence, like you did, but when 1 practiced medicine got arrested for not having a state license. for did not know that I was required to have them, and the justice of the peace called me to one side and sad he was my friend and would fix it for me so as that would not be sent to the peni tentiary. He would advise me to waive examination, and then he would let me 20 on my own reccomisance. which meant that could fit.
 ''So fitted.
 Please tell me what to do and send $S.
 ''lf had of used my own good sense,