A Strange Fish.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2081, 7 November 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)

A Strange Fish.

A curiodh fish was caught in a net by Thomas Sheridan in the Schuylkill. The creat«re had a head somewhat resembling that of an opospum, and enormous fins, one on each side and twenty inches wide, ttretching back to the tail. The latter is twenty-two inches in length, tho entire fnh being three feet. Two attachments resembling rudimentary legs are noticed at the hind part of the animal. It weighs twenty pounds, dnA is designated by some who h<\ve eeen it a " devil fab."-—Norriitoin> Herald.

Shortly after the close of the Civil War a large number of army horses which were afflicted with tbe variou3 diseases peculiar to the equine race were disposed of at auction in a Weat Virginia tonn, the prices of many of them being merely nominal, ranging from a few cents to one or two dollars per head. • On one occasion Colonel M , a typical old Virginia gentleman, who had a slight impediment in his voice, attended the sale, and humourously persisted in bidding on a windbroken, ring-boned, spavined animal which had barely managed to esoapo the bone-yard, until, much to his chagrin, it was " knocked down" to him at thirty-seven-and-a-half cents Not having the exact change, tha Colonel handed out a dollar bill. " I can't change this, Colonel," said the auctioneer. " Haven't you anything smaller?" Tho Colonel carefully scrutinised hi 3 purse, thrust his hands into his pocketn, and finding no amount lesa than a dollar, replied : "No, sah ; nothing s-s-3-smaller, sah. But eiuce I've begun to t-t-t-think about if, it makes no d-d-d difference, pah. Just keep it and I'll take tha whola dollar out in h-h-hos3es,sah."