A Monster Gar Fish

A monster gar fish was caught by Fred Moon of Pittsflold in ex.-Gov. Winans' Lako 2J miles from Hamburg, last Saturday. night. It is 4% f eet long, about 12 inches in circumference, weighs nearly 18 pounds, and is probably the largest fish of the kind ever taken in this state or any other. It has been purchased by the University and will be prepared and preserved in the museum as a specimen of what Michigan lakes can produce in the line of the finny tribe. By some scientists this fish is Bupposed to belong to a pre historie age and it is gradually becoining extinct. There are now only twenty species in America. Their scales are of a bony natturo so that a hatchet eim scarcely penétrate hem. They have doublé rows of teeth in their long mouth, of unequal sizes and the longer ones resemble those of reptiles. It ofteu leaps out of the water in pursuit of its prey and is so swif t and strong a swimmer as to stem the most f urious rapids.