The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-11-10

and blood, it is believed, may be drawn 1 from the veins of the robust and made to flow in those of the feeble. More commonplace groWths are fa- miliar to every one. The skin is ever being rubbed or washed away, hair re- quires cutting at inconveniently short
 intervals, human nails demand the | scissors, the claws of cats are reset by the aid of the drawing room furniture, and those of the tiger by means of
 friendly tree. The horns of male deer,
 and in the case of the reindeer those of | tn female also-Which in some instances
 weigh half a hundredweight-are brok-
 en off and grow again year by year.
 But with these exceptions there is
 nothing in the higher animals corre-
 spending in the replacing of limbs in the crab. It is only when we leave the
 mammals and the birds that we arrive
 at the miracle of growth which the fish
 erman called "sprouting." and which
 the men of science term the regenera- ton of lost parts. It is at it's meridian
 in the crabs and the spiders, while it's
 dawn must be looked for far below the
 mollusks and the worms. Man, so to
 speak, only basks in the rays of the
 setting sun.
 Sea anemones, which with their
 green, pink, cream, blue, and crimson
 floral beauty turn the shores of the
 ocean into a marine paradise, may be
 cut down by adverse circumstances, as
 our garden flowers are by northern
 blast, without losing their vitality or
 their power of recuperation. Let but a
 layer Of the original root remain at- tached to the rock, and they will again grow bodies and crown them with bud like fringes, which serve them for lips
 and hands.
 I once heard a jocular doctor threaten to amputate a patient in the middle of
 his back. Such radical operation ! would probably have debarred the sub . ject of it from violent athletic pursuits
 for the rest of his life. An earthworm
 thinks nothing of being taken off in the
 middle of the back by the spade of an
 unsuspecting or malicious gardener, but
 simply rests as private patient for a
 month or two, and then comes out with
 a brand new tail. Even the Joss of the
 other end does not trouble the interest
 ing creature which Darwin raised from , the status of a pest to the honorable rank of one of the worlds banefactors. Most people lose ther heads, meta phorically, at times, but when those a ornamental appendages are literally off,
 no fresh heads take their place. A
 morn, on the contrary, hs been known
 to grow new brain, as we'll as the more ) humdrum, but useful mouth and throat Sin the coruse of a couple of months. l, That mixed multitude" of animals chased together by naturalists as mol . lusks, which include the lie-a-bed oy-
 ster and the wideawake cuttlefish, con- : tains also the snail. far-famed for it's
 marvellous speed, its habit of evading ? the ground landlord by carry it's house
 on it's shoulders. and for it's ability to ( open new eyes should the originals be
 permanently. darkened. The eyes, as is
 well known, are carried at the ends oi
 two horns, and can be pulled in ol
 thrust out with more than mechanical
 ease and precision. If the eyes are lost
 by any accident, the life which per- s Ivades the creature, beginning from the
 Imre stumps, builds up the optic nerves , afresil, furnishes them with appropriate E cases, and places accurately constructs !, ed lenses at the ends. ', . In the case of human being who has lost his eyes the ophthalmist has {. nothing more practical to do than tc i. send in his bill and the optician is re. duced to the construction of glass eyes F or some other appliance to hide the de- |. formity; whereas the snail, treated ir . the ophthalmic hospital of nature * grows ews eyes and goes rnerrily, but ss sedately to his revels on a tender cab
 bage leaf under the moon.
 ' Few insects are known to replace lost F members, although they are frequently |. found minus a foot or one of their an tennae. This, is probably due to the s fact that most Insects emerge suddenly x into the mature form, when growth practically ceases, and it is In the i'm. E mature stage that uncommon growth .. is more marked.
 Two insects, however, which grow from larvae to perfect individuals with. r out any great change or form, are able !, to replace lost antennae or legs. Ear. 1" wigs begin life with antennae of eight joints each, and by subdividing increase T the joints to fourteen. The .antennas are brittle, and joints frequently breal off, but are readily replaced, the dis turbance arising from the fracture oi ten producing a cariation from the us ual number.
 f Spiders and braks, which are near re lations, are able. after a series o l moults, to replace limbs which have disappeared in battle. It is something startling, on the morrow after shutting I up in a box dark spider with sever legs, to find two spiders, one dark ant the other light, one with eight legs ana the other with seven, the captive hay ing changed his clothes and grown z J new leg during the hours of darkness 4 Crabs are warlike, and when two ol three enter the same crabpot are apt tt destroy one another's limbs in a way which, to less richly endowed races seems extravagant. Fishermen canno afford to throw them back into the sea but they often render first aid. Thrust ing finger into the wound of the man gled limb, the irritate the owner, wh, N thereupon jerks off the paw" leaving E neat film at the end of the stump & Crabs are more excitable than their ap 8 pearance would suggest, and it is firm ly believed by the fishermen that whel