These are more In the neighborhood of Cuba a peculiar especially distinguished for their size; they are mounted on method. of securing the turtle is pursued an endless band of paper strengthened with linen, nearly 100 by the natives, advantage being taken of feet long. Two colossal panoramas of Sydney and Mel· the habits of a species of remora, or suck . bourne have been each made from about a dozen sheets, 18 ing fish, peculiar to those waters. Three by 20 inches, very skillfully joined

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... r; the separate or four species of remora are known, parts harmonize very completely in drawing, tone, and having collectively a wide range. The white tailed remora depth. The last on the list was a picture which, as could The Trouble with Enlrl1sh Cottons. (Echenei s albica1lda, Mitch.) frequents our North Atlantic easily be seen, had been printed from a single negative, and In an address to his constituents touching the condition of coast, and is sometimes taken in Long Island Sound , its size, 150 by 93 centimeters, showed it to be quite an un· the cotton trade, Mr. Mellor, member of P�rliament, lately where is it known as the shark sucker. common photographic feat. said that the trade had gone down because of the rascality The chief peculiarity of all these fish cOllsists in n:loval practiced in the English manufacturing district s . I n sup· disk on the top of the head and the adjacent parts of the back, An Insoluble CeD1ent. por� of the charge he told a story brought out b y a recent the surface of which is crossed by transverse cartilaginous A very va . luable c�ment has b�en dis . cover . ed b � Mr. A. C. county. court case at Rochdale. A suit had been b rought plates, arranged somewhat like the slats of a Venetian blind; F ? x, of whICh details a � e pubhshed I � Dingler s p'0lytech. to recover a sum of money" for sizing 27 warps" for the de· on the middle of the under surface are hook like projections, :.� s che s Journal. It consls � s of a chroml � m p . reparahon a � d fendallt, a cotton manufacturer. The judge did not under· connected by short ba d with the skull and vertebrre and i lsmglass, and forms a sohd cement, whICh IS not only !D. stand what "sizing" meant. He asked for an explanation. their upper m�rgin is :es:t with fine teeth. Accordi� to soluble in hot and cold water, but even in steam, while The plaintiff asked that the court might be cleared while he De Blainville this organ is an anterior dorsal fin w�o neither acids nor alkalies have any action upon it. The answered the judge. He was evidently ashamed of the busi· rays are spli� and expanded horizontallv on each ' sid . s � chromium preparation and the isinglass or gelatin do not '1 h . d . d ness. The ju ge would not comply with his request, and he, stead of standing erect in the usual way. By means of this come mto conta�t unt! t e � oment the cement IS . eSlfe , had to explain that" sizing" was" loading" or adulteration apparatus, partly suctorial, partly prehensile by the hooks, and when a � phed to ad�eslve envelopes, for whICh the of cotton goods. The size consisted of flour, C hi n a clay, the remora attaches itself to rocks, ships, floating timber, author holds It to be espeCially adapted, the one material is Epsom salts, chlorate of zinc, chlorate of magnesi a, and glue. and the bodies of othe fish especially sharks which it uses put on the envelope covered by the flap (and therefore not This was put into the cotton to the extent of 70 per cent,and either for anchorage o� for iabor saving transit touched by the tongue), while the isinglass, dissolved in ace· he had used the size to as high an average as 130 per c e nt. The species of remora inhabiting Cuban �aters (c II d tic acid, is applied under the flap. The chromium prepa· Indeed, he confessed that there were manufacturers who Reve, that is, reversed, by the Spaniards, because its ba�k