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Show Keimiins of .Maiuiiiol li Animals as Large as Ships. t'o.ti:iii.(iTin:i:i.i:rToKU coi,u:i;e. The Difficulties that May Arise If the Election is Referred to Congress. One of the latest discoveries of remains of the strange, huge creatures crea-tures that inhabited the earth when the polar seas were warm, its land mud, its trees mammoth reeds, its reptiles birds and ils birds ungainly ungain-ly reptiles, is the great skeleton of the monstrous whale lizard found preserved by paleocrvsie ice. This I is about to be put in conditon by the Smithsonian Institute for exhibition ex-hibition at the World's Fair. The creature, larger than an y other known animal, moved ils vast .bulk over the ancient seas by webbed feet below and wingsabove the water like a steamship using both screw propellers and nails. This discovery is more strange than the finding of hairy elephants preserved in the ancient ,ice dills of Siberia. It is ve ry s u gges t i ve, es peci -all' when considered with other discoveries of animal and human remains such as the bones of the cave hear, the saber-toothed tiger and other extinct animals associated with stone weapons and other relics of man beneath the accumulated deposits and debris of untold ages, or such as the pumping pump-ing up of the image of a man from a depth of hundreds of feet and from below buried Uu'crs of lava. The Smithsonian Institute is accumulating ac-cumulating many chapters of this very ancient history, which include in-clude a large collection of paleolithic paleoli-thic weapons and tools. i Close elections turn attention to possible defects in our electoral schemes. Should the two leading candidates have an equal or about an equal vote in the college of ejectors and the balance of power be held by the third party, or should the electors of a state be prevented by a storm blockade from assembling on the legal day as once happened in Michigan, or should one or more electors vote contrary to the expectations of their constituents or refuse to vole at all as has several timesoccurred, j in any of these or olher possible contingencies such as the death of one or more electors, provided the ! occurrence is such as to change the result, a very exciting and possibly dangerous contingeneey will arise. If none of the candidates secure a majority of the 444 electoral votes, that is 223 or over, the election of the president will be thrown into the House and that of the Vice-President into the Senate. The. House, being largely Democratic, would elect Cleveland. The Senate, being Republican, . would lug for Rcid, but the statutes state plainly that the President and Vice-President must not come from the same state. There would be a clash here between be-tween the two bodies. Congress must decide between the three candidates having the highest number of votes. So if one of the bodies would not give in, that is. the Democratic House elect Harrison or the Republican Senate elect Stevenson, there is no telling the danger that may arise. Let us hope for the best. |