Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-05-16
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 troubles anu
 soldier Crab.
 looks inquisitively at the
 4he stars and wonders
 not they are inhabited,
 o+ curious creatures con
 ar;ous orders of life upon
 ,,,,. curiosity with specula-
 .bese faraway planets and
 l'e ,ya know so little of
 Ee live on and it's inhabi-
 nasting little creatures, for
 - sa the crabs! And the most ae ;ly of crustaceans are the
 Kermit crabs. These ip-
 l;ttle creatures, as they grow
 s ss learn by instinct that, on s'4 f their soft, pulpy abdomen .s'.', ass < homeless and defenseless sas1 ssv will never be able to reach M to effer defiance to their
 ,.s anexies, 50 they go house. |'s~ s All they need to render them s'sF e+ fhe attacks of more pow ! s7 7ssrsaries is a hard-shell dom1- uhieh they can take refuge " 7ss, s,ob of danger. It is not oasv for them to find sub .:' sacant shells or calcareous as to let. When an empty % found. we'll and good. but ,. tSsg j, are in a strait they do not ''.ts so force their nippers into '.Sa nniyalves when they will lSs 9' saollusk and occupy the prem KS faets can readily be verified by s,,sEWbo will examine the small 'a,xe shells on the seacoast. Snails ''s;zes must vacate their houses heSe long-legged marauders, be- ng Helpless victims of their power
 
 rehensile weapons of offense. s 1o1lier crab, or what is known as the Pagurus Bern. K passes through an eyentful ca
 He spends his tender youth on trafds of the North Sea, the Med- mean and other large inland seas. { fe has outgrown parental super { and castigations, he hies him to deep sea bottoms and. tiuc a large-sized snail, he makes are meal of all but the spiral shell lieh he makes himself at home, no complacently at the fishes aud
 Inhabitants of the deep who to Interview the bold interloper. er this transition his crabship be- 5 lonesome like other grabbed old slors and goes eourting among the Animal life of the aquatic gar
 This move on his part procures eempanion for life. to share his and sorrows, and as this bell d belle, this strange formation on 3of of his house, can scratch dread with her sentaeular organs, he ns an additional means of protec- sgainst unwe1comed guests. In Ii for her valuable services the sea one, as it is called, receives the ants of the prey which the crab . difficulty to apprehend with his Gnippers.
 ugh avoided by the most for ole fishes, whose insides would be to pieces if they would attempt allow and devour these conbina- yet they are caught by men in and sailors know of no more de- s tidbit than the flesh of the 1ard and hermit crabs This $ has most beautiful red color, let, and sharp pair of scissors, [ will hold tenaeiously to the st substance within it's grasp. trange bride of the Bernhard crab ground color, nterspersed ted spots, and is lined off with -eolored stripes, the ensemble nting a pretty picture.
 bs, however, are subject to n like other creatures, and it so 'ns that the conquered forts be- uneomfortabiy small for their dies, when more spacious home be found. The anemone is never on aa empty shell. Whenever nimal flower is aaet one is sure to it's companion in the basement. Q the strange mates separate on lg day. The crab attacks the in of larger shell, devours the lus- meat and settles in the new Meanwhile the anemone is not put glides and creeps at the rate inch an hour from one roof to the when the happy companionship tinued.
 all crabs are subject to such arful transitions and acquire such ge formations, but all undergo n metamorphosis. On emerging the egg they are provided with ails, swimming appendages, and eyes, and bear so little resem- to the parent form that until century ago their connection ,he crab was altogether unsus- 1. They were known as zoeas. moulting, the eyes appear on and nippers on the anterior pair s, but this form is still sufficiently bike to have deceived early 'ists, who described it as forming Q -inet genus, and it is not till a 1T casting of the skin that the Ire assumes the perfect form. As ernal parts continue to grow its lal shell soon becomes too small east off, the crab generally con- 2 itself until it's new and greatly red covering becomes sufficiently ned. This process of mouIting, he naturalists, takes place very 4ntly in the young crab, and ally becomes rarer as the erea- pproaches its full growth, crabs often found with oysters at- to the carapace. which, judging