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Show p m ii i in jiii mi i STRANGEST OF FISHES. A r.Iurino Womlor lit tno Columbia University. Uni-versity. There is an unlmal at Columbia university uni-versity which has neither ears, eyes, head nor heart. The absence of the head and heart is naturally the odd feature of this strange creature, which biologists call a laneo-let. laneo-let. One of them i now being experimented experi-mented on in Columbia university's biological laboratory, says the San Francisco Examiner. Although this wonder looks a good deal like a fwh, it Is really an animal, for Micro Is just as much difference between be-tween the lancelet and a salmon, for Instance, as there Is between a man and an ordinary bird. Epicureans with a sweet tooth for fish will hall with delight the prospect of having all the lakes and rivers of the country stocked with the lancelet, for In their entire body there is not a bone. True, tihere is a kind of backbone running run-ning the length of the body, but as thin bone is not a. bone at all. but. only a strip of what ordinary mortal would call gristle, no trouble with fishbone? can follow from the attempt to eat the animal "fm a. man is in a hurry to catch an "L" express. Still a-nother advantage exists to a man who wanba totnt the lancelet in jiffy. This advantage is, perhaps, "one b,etter" than the absence of bones. Every man's eyes perform the function of an X-ruy maohine in good working order, for the lancelet is absolutely transparent in every section of its extraordinary ex-traordinary corpus. |