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Show MONSTERS OF BYGONE AGES. Lizards as large as elephants, bats with bodies the size of a St. Bernard dog and wings twenty feet across, and sea monsters half the length of a city square are known to have roamed over the earth and sea millions mil-lions of years before the coming of man. From time to time the skeletons skele-tons of monsters have been fund, and recently the remains of a mastodon were dug up in Connecticut. This huge beast was one of the mamals that lived during the Pleistocene or Ice Age, which, scientists say, dates back 150.000 years. While this valuable valu-able prehistoric find was being examined, ex-amined, Walter Wlnans, who was on a hunting expedition In Poland, succeeded suc-ceeded In killing an animal said to be a contemporary of the Connecticut beast and one thought to be practically prac-tically extinct. It is of the moose type, and is known as an auroch. Winans shot it while hunting in the primeval forest of Pilowen on the estate of Conut Potoki, after it had killed a horse and badly wounded the rider. The big animal weighed more than 2,000 pounds, and, according to the records, is the largest specimen ever seen during the present age. It will be mounted in tho British Museum. Mus-eum. It was Baron Cuvier of Paris, who, after years of research, laid the foundation foun-dation of that great science known as paleontology, which treats of living thlnes, whether animal or vegetable, which have inhabited the globe in past periods of history. Agasslz, Owen Huxley, Marsh, Cope and many others have followed In his footsteps until today the men who have made a study of this science are able to set up the extinct animals from the fossil remains. re-mains. In the early days of the restoration re-storation of these prehistoric creatures, crea-tures, an effort was made to set up the animal in its entirety; and where these parts were missing, to manufacture manu-facture these parts and give them the same color as the real skeleton. This however, has been discontinued from the fact that the scientists thing it may mislead the public Mrs R r Miller In Leslie's. oo , |