THE SOUDAN TROUBLE. [BY TELEGRAPH.-COPYRIGHT.]
[KHTTHt's THiK(.U*Mi ] Cuko, November ."s<> Tun rebel Arabs arc again advancing, and sovor.il sharp skirmishes hrnel.ikcu pl.ico between them and the British troops.
Tin following account of a remaikable driMin appcirs in a lecent issue of Knowltdge Mi I'ioctoi's popular scientific publication • -"I subjoin .111 cxtiact fiom a letter, leeeivcd on Monday List, fioin a son of mine who !•> 111 command of tin- ta-test s s m New Zealand wateis, mutely piemising tli.it the ' poor N ' lefuicil to was a younqci bi other of his, who w:n washed ovcibn.ird in midAtlantic, and the ' poor V ' a quadloin, who 1 (.turned with me from the Wot Indies in the eventful veai ISIS, and who nursed him and all his biotlwis and sisteis, except the eldest, but died Inst January twelve-months :—' Now, my dear father, 1 am going to tell you an astounding fact. On the date pool N was di owned Tmw him shugglii>£ in the water on the port side of a steamer in a -toimy sen, when all at once he disappeared, €md d.n-itly after, in my dream, 1 saw poor P sitting at the foot of my bed. She t>.ud ' Not you,' and vanish. 1 T woke up, wi'tit on fleck, and told th«* t hiof ofh<vr of it, and, on my n-tiiMi b |i< < T m ide .1 note ot it in nil iit'ti.'iti i. Nii-oc flien I have woilc-d it out, .1 if I it t.illf ■« t'> Hie moment ot the iad iiu'iniiiiiu ' (I !u\ in" gnen him, 111 a h trei to uhie!| tin 1 ib iv» His Ins ansviei, th' la'itiidi anil longitude, with local tunt of i() - W V A KK'i NT Uul'k Mn of the United States Fish (,'oinii'i-sion mnt.iius tlic following intcirsii _• ii ciiun! <>l ihcdi's tinction of young trout li\ m •*<[ nfu.-s •_ "Tn thf middle or l.ilte 1 * d.iit ot .June, ISBJ, I was pio«pectin^ '>n th" livid waters of the Tumiehie Cieek, 111 the (iannison Valley, Coloiado. Ah<>ut nine o'clock in the mornins; I s,it down in the shade of Home willows that skirted a clear but shallow place in the creek. In a quiet part of the water, where their movements weie readily diacernable, weie some fiesh-hatehed biook or mountain trout, and circling about ovnr the water was a small swarm of mosquitoes. The ti out were very young, still li.tv ins» the pellucid y.ic k puffing out fiom the reigon of the gilK. w lth the lest of the body almost transparent when they would sw im into a poition of the water that was lighted up by diiect, suiiihinc. E\uiy few minutes these baby trout — for what put pohe 1 do not Know, unless to get the benefit of more air— would come to the mi) face of the water, so that the top of the head was level with the surface of the water. When this was the case a mosquito would light down and immediately t anslix the tiout by mseit ing its pioboscia, or bill, into the hiain of the ii-.h, which »■ • mcd incapable of escaping. The mosquito would hold its victim steady until it had extiacted all the lite juices, and when this was accomplished, an 1 it would fly away, the deid tiout rtould turn over on its back and float down the stteani. I was so iutetested in this befoie unheard-of destruction of rUh that I watched the depmtahon ot tlK"<e mosquitoes foi more than half an hum , and in that time ow 1 twenty trout weie sucked diy and then lifele&s bodies suit floating <way witli the cunent. It was the only occasion when I was e\ei witness to the fact, and 1 ha\e been unable by enquiiy to aticcit.un if otheis have obsei\ed a similar destruction of fish. 1,11111 ,1111 fauie the fiali weie tiout, as the locality was quite near the snow line, and the water was veiy cold, and no other tish weie in the stieam at that altitude. Fiom tin.-, obici \ ation lam satibticd that gicat numbois of tiout, and pei haps infant libh of other vaiietics in clear watcis, must come to their death in this way ; and if the fact has not been herotofoie recorded, it is impnitant to those intciested iv ti^li cultiuc,"
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Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2092, 3 December 1885, Page 2
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716THE SOUDAN TROUBLE. [BY TELEGRAPH.-COPYRIGHT.] Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2092, 3 December 1885, Page 2
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