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Show Vrncr In KnmUione.' While excavating for n basement un der 11 storo building nt ,Muskegou, MIcl)., wqrkmen unearthed three live frogs In the sandstone eighty feet below be-low the surface. The? soil In which the fiogs were found is n mixture of Jiord, dry sand nnd rock, nnd it is cer-"tain cer-"tain tho fiogs'have been burled nt lenst thirty years. The spot on which the building stands was at 011c time tho shore lino of thp Muskpgon Lake, but ns the city grow the edge was tilled In until now the water's edge is tearly "I0O yards from the building, nnd n brick paved street now runs where thirty years ago tho lake'gi 'waters rolled. All tliieo frogs hopicd about nfter they had been exposed to the sun for a few minutes. All three were entirely blind. The frogs were greenback green-back 1n color nnd their skin wns tough nnd corrugated. Chicago Inter-Ocean. |