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Spoage.--Many of our young readers, we presume, are not aware that the sponge which they use in performing their morn ing abiutions, is but the skeleton of what was once a living animal. Young misses in particular would shudder at the idea of rubbing their fair foreheads anirosy cheeks with skeleton. But ii is even so. The sponge belongs te the lowest oider of beings in the animal kingdom. 1t consists of a fibrous mass, containing a ielly-lil1e sub- stance, which, when touched, discovers d slight sensation, the only sign of life mani fested. When the sponge IS living, the large apertures in it serve to carry ont fluids from within while the water by which the animals is nourished, IS imbibed by minute pores. This continued circulation of wa ter is one of the most important functions of the living sponge. If part of these animals is separated from the rest, 1t will itself be as perfect living as was the whole before. There are many species of sponge; the nest valued in the acts found in the Mediterranean Sea and Indian Ocean. They grow upon rocks and the bottom of the sea"