SEA SECRETS. A’ 
wisps of nothingness; but science detected 
hydroids, delicate scalaria, worm cases, salpz, 
infant scallops, and marvels of embroidered 
embryo known only to science. The most 
precious and promising of these in jars of sea 
water awaited honorable investigation, while as 
to the remainder, with a flat rock serving for 
their table, the three strained and stirred, mag: 
nified and marveled over the common looking 
sand and muddy looking mud, “the maximum 
of interest being reached,” Cousin Ellen de- 
clared, “when a boy actually forgot the de- 
mands of his own stomach in investigating the 
stomach of a stomapod !” 
When the auspicious day dawned in which 
the treasures waiting in their tanks of sea water 
were to give up their secrets, the teacher and 
the children sat at a long table with strainers, 
saucers, pincers, and microscopes before them, 
while expectation and delight were upon their 
faces. 
After examining and explaining’ several 
minute organisms and admiring delicate and 
snow-white scalaria, so small as to tax the mi- 
croscope and yet perfect in every convolution, 
“This,” said the man of science, extricating 
from its muddy cradle an atom of transpar- 
ency, “is the Sapphirina ovatolanceolata.” 
