Vou. IV. ANN ARBOR, AUGUST, 1884. No. 8. 
WHOLE No. 25. 
THE FAKIR’S SECRET. 
A. Y. MOORE, M. D., PROFESSOR OF MICROSCOPY, CLEVELAND H. H. COLLEGE. 
eset is probably nothing which the microscopist can show 
to the average “* want-to-see-something observer,” which will 
excite more explosive “Oh, My’s!” than a slide of paste eels. 
Those Microscopists who have occasion to show “something 
interesting” to their non-microscopical friends, generally re- 
serve the eels for the grand culmination, and even the beauties 
of the polariscope are eclipsed in interest by this ‘something 
alive with plenty of light on it.” Vinegar eels are good, but 
are far too lively and cannot generally be obtained in such 
great numbers as is the case with paste eels. 
We have probably all read the “directions” for raising 
these eels. Nearly every book treating of the microscope men- 
tions something concerning them; but, after all, the substance 
is this: Make some flour paste; wait till it sours, and then 
perhaps you will find eels—and perhaps not. Generally speak- 
ing it is perhaps not. 
