The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-18

! the microscope he should have always
/ at hand cards of thick white paper cut
of uniform size, on one side of which
he is to draw with colored pencils
every animal he sees, known or UNI
known, exactly as he sees it. On the.
reverse side of each card he is to write
such description of the animal and it's
| conduct and habits as cannot be shown
in the drawing. The colored penciling
will help to locate the food particles,
the eyes, the heart, eggs, etc. when
they are present If he faithfully por-
! trays everything he sees, no matter
| how unusual or pTepoSterouS 1t seems
at the time. he will soon have a series
of pencil photographs of great value,
giving the whole life history of many
animals. And it may chance that he
| has caught one of these elusive little
creatures in some act in which great
paturalists have sought in vain to APP
prehend it.
The boy who goes to the seashore or
to the parks to spent day of his va
cation, and imagines that when he gets
out in "a boat he is leaving the great
city behind, has merely left a bustling
city on land for an equally busting
one in the water All around and be-
low him are moist streets thronged
with busy people harrying on their way
to market, laughing and chatting in
their own voiceless manner on their
way to the theatre or gossiping from
their own back doors with their neigh
bors. In the ponds of the parks is the
actual Greater New York" or Greater
Chicago" with a population far out
numbering the dusty mart through
which rattles the land traffic.
If the young naturalist ScrutinizeS
the margins along the shore he will
detect thousands of cyclops, daphniae
and cyprides, mere specks darling
about in the water; but in order to find
most of these submerged races he must
come provided with magnifying glass.
hooks where seaweed and lilypads
grow are by far the most fertile in the
number and variety of microscopic ami
mails The stem of every lotus would
stock a whole menagerie and the I'M
der side of every leaf is a crowded city
wherein dwell these Liliputians of
every color and every nation. They
deck themselves in brown, red, amber
and gold in gaslight green and all the
latest shades. Some wear flaring skirts
and are trumpet-shaped some bottle
shaped, some keg-Shaped are some are
shaped like the dainty harebell. Among
them are the graceful and the clumsy,
the pref : and the ugly, the loving and
the quarrelsome, the gentle and the
ferocious, the timid and the bold. Each
iilllC pun 10 d AlllNStS lilASQ Will peO-
pie who find life quite as interesting
according to their capacity, as man
does, and who love and wed, rear their
families, grow old and are immortal.
The young naturalist who goes out
in his boat early in the morning is
likely to think he is the only oarsman
on the water. He again deceives him
self, as when he thought to leave the
busy world behind When he stepped
into the boat there was another line of
living boats drawn up on the beach
beside the rowboats, thousands and
thousands of exceedingly minute, OBJ
long creatures which piled their oars
and scurried away in alright the mo-
ment he disturbed the water. He has
plenty of company, little creatures row.
ing for dear life, trying to escape a
dreadful shaking-up in the commotion
caused by the terrific giant in the boat
above them. They are boat-shaped
and their oars are exceedingly minute
hairs or ella, for they belong to the
protozoauS known as ciliates, because
their feet and hands are locomotor
and prehensile ella. When they travel
they do so by vibrating their ella as
fish does its fins or a boatman his
oars.
The daintiest and most charming of
all this motley host are the bell-ani7 |
malcules,i so called because they are
shaped like bells. They are perfectly
transparent, and live with their deli
cate cups attached to long, slender