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Show llaml Beach Offlolals Had a Prize, nut the Nine 8pelmens Died In Short Order. Tho officials ef the aquarium at llaml Beach a short time ago en-cavorcd en-cavorcd to secure In a big net a por-olse por-olse to see If It could be kept alive 1 an outdoor tank, and when hauling ; In were surprised to find that a saw-sh saw-sh had become entogled. A success-nl success-nl effort was mode to bring this spec-nen spec-nen in alive, and it was placed in lo 80-foot tank Inside of tho aqua-lum. aqua-lum. It was tempted with different varices varic-es of its natural food, but It would ot cat or niovo around in the tank, xceptlng perhaps once in 24 hours it ould move a few feet but always long tho bottom. Four days aftor It as placed In Uio tank It gavo birth nine young, each about ono foot )ng, six Inches of which was saw, and ature had provided that each llttlo aw was Inclosed In a glutinous veil, lius protecting tho mother and tho thor offspring from tho saws. At the end of three weeks tho moth-r moth-r died, cither from starvation or n roken heart, but the llttlo fellows, nowlng nothing else, began to eat ,-hnt was offered, llttlo shreds of spiny Jbster and cut up mullets, thriving nd growing very nicely, not being In-erfercd In-erfercd with by tho other fish, nnd aklng a good deal of cxcrclso swim-ulng swim-ulng tho length of tho tank, generally car tho lloor. After threo months, luring which time they had grown to little moro than two feet In length, hey were attacked by some sort of 'nrnslto and ono by ono died. ITTAItl nr- ni- |