Show L a Jtti LIKE A BUTTERFLY NET I facecr Contrivance Used by the Filipino Fili-pino When Ho Sets Out to Cap turo ft MOBS of Fish An odd sort of fish catching con irlvanco used In tho Philippine Islands may be teen at tho Now York aqua Hum It Is en open work domo shaped thing about two feet In height and two feet across In Its widest part at the bottom mado of thin strips of a native Wood The upper ends of these strips ire brought closely together around a tlrclo of wood at tho top while from there they spread out uniformly wider and wider apart like the wires In the top part of a round top bird cago up under these strips about six Inches below the top Is set a woouen noop to which each of limo slats Is bound and over this hoop tho slats are strung with a slight curve to bo held In shape and at unform distances apart by a tie run around a couple of Inches above their bottom ends So that this Is an open domo shaped contrivance made of nlender curving vertical ribs and In Its construction It shows nice workmanship work-manship Tho Island fisherman uses this fish catcher in catching fish much as a boy uses his hat in catching butterflies but-terflies he claps It down over such comparatively sluggish and bottom feeding fish as ho can get near enough to for that purpose and through an opening In the top of the catcher he reaches down lusldo of It to seize tho fishes thus caught |