Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 148, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1919 — ALL WERE “POOR FISH” ONCE [ARTICLE]

ALL WERE “POOR FISH” ONCE

Scientific Sharp Goes Back Fifty MUlion Year* to Prove Truth of Hl* Statement. When your best girl calls you a “poor fish” believe her. For she has a line on your ancestry. Any regret you may have felt that your ancestors didn’t come over on the Mayflower should be somewhat appeased by the thought that they at least swam over, under or in the wake of that Illustrious vessel. This information may not be new to students of evolution, but to those who have been too busy to do any research work fish ancestry may come as something of a shock. ; Especially if you’re a fisherman and have been unwittingly hooking your distant relatives all these years. The evolution of man is being traced in a series of lectures at one of the Harlem high schools by a wellknown professor and he has all the natives by the ears, writes a New York correspondent of Pittsburgh Dispatch. He told them that they were all mer* fish 50,000,000 years agp, which Is going back beyond their earliest recollections, and since then the fish markets of Harlem have become center* of Interest. The staring eyes of the prostrate shad, herring and flounde# has caused many passers-by to stop and earnestly look for recognition frdln a long-lost relation. The majority of Harlemites, however, cannot figure it out whether they were descended from a lamprey eel or a striped bass.