The Dead Of The Sea

An inquisitivo írenolunau has thought it worth wbile to ask what becomes of the bodies, after death, of the numborless fish and othor living creaturcs tbat iill the sea. Of ccmrse they all die, sooner or later, and y et it is an oocurrence so rare as to be practically unknown for anybody who lives beside or on the ocean to come across the "remains" of even a single victim of the fate that awaits all things mortal. In the profotJDder deptha putrefaction cannot take place, so if a dead fish once reaohed those calm, chili abysses he would bo preserved nutil the end of time. Probably, however, no such peaoefnl repose awaits more thau an infinitesimally sniall proportion of the finny folk, and uo great accunnïlation of lifeless bodiea exists at the bottoin of the soa. The living eat the dead before they can make the long, slow journey downward. Ás a matter óf fact, extremely few fish, and perhaps none, ever meet what is known as a "natural death, " Almost always they are slain and devotired, and so put definitely out of the way