Show LIKE A BUTTERFLY NET buaer contrivance used by the 1411 pino when he sete out to cap ture a mess of an odd sort of fish catching con Irl vance used in the philippine islands may be seen at the new york aqua flum it Is an open work dome shaped thin about two feet in height and two feet across in its widest part at the bottom made of thin strips of a native wood the upper ends of these strips o 0 brought closely together around a circle of wood at the top while from there they spread out uniformly wider and wider apart like the wires in the cop part of a round top bird cage up under these strips about six inches below the top Is set a wooden hoop to which each of the slats Is bound and over this hoop the slats are strung with a slight curve to be held in shape and at distances apart by a tie run around a couple of inches above their bottom ende so that this la an open dome shaped contrivance made of blender curving vertical ribs and in its construction it nice work inan ship the island fisherman uses this fish catcher in catching fish much as a boy uses his hat in catching but he claps it down over such comparatively sluggish and bottom feeding fish as ho can get near enough to tor that purpose and through an opening in the top of the catcher he reaches down inside of it to seize tho fishes thus caught |