The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1871-04-06
Loosl items, &c.
NewsEoG the County and City.
CITY Affairs.

NEWSEOt lHG cOL''tJ $3.50 N'Ni-
City Affairs.
IN CITY COUNCIL. April 3. Rev. Wooster
Parker elected School Supervisor; Cyrus Pat
terson elected Harbor Master in place of i. Is.
Frederick, declined; Charles R.iThombs elected
City Marshal, in place Of \. b. Mathews, de-
cned.
Petition Of r. Sbey to discontinue portion OF
Front street; of 1, NJ. Boardman and other,
against consolidating School Districts / and ..
OF A. C. Jcwett and others for sidewalk. Were
III read and referred to Committees.
Report of Committee On City Printing was
fecommitted.
Bond of Daniel Haradeu City Treasurer, ap-
proved.
The City CLERK wa, instructed to publish
notices for Collection OF Taxes and meeting OF
License Board on Isl Monday of May.
SHAp. Life is a shad-Oh how il dies :
There are two kinds of shad. the street shad,
the latter class, net being posted on the habits
OF the former.
Our bay is = regularly established fish board
ing house. Many yurieties Of fish board by the
wear, while others only spend the summer here.
Among the regular hoarders are the founder
eel, cod, sculpin and GUNNER and the summer
visitors are the shad, salmon, tinker, horse
mackerel, porgie and Penobscot Indians.
The shad was named for old Shad-raeh whom
acknowledgements considered Il scaly chap, till
after he passed through his fiery furnace when
he was found 10 be man of much back bone
and in this respect the shad resembles him in
great quantities. Shad are natures pin cushions
for bones. They are built of the refuse stuff
that was left after all the rest of the fish were
eoncocted. The interior of a shad looks like
line tooth comb or wool card, and the best
way TO get the meat out, is to use a tooth pick.
A little later in the season and the shad will
make their appearance. When they come they
come good dead, there is many of him, he is
multitudinous. We are not read up as To where
the shad lives before he comes this way, but he
boards where they set poor table, When he
first puts in an appearance he is extremely
cmaciated He is so thin that his skin don't tit
him, hence the phrase ''thin as il shad." You
can't get ANYTHING thinner than spring shad.
unless you take a couple Of them, when of
course they will be twice rs thin. They look
much like porgie-about twice as much, but
they are not so high scented. Shad fishing is Il
lucrative business. If the fishermen has good
luck they will net him considerable, or he will
net them considerable, we are IL little doubtful
which. Like their namesakes on shore they are
fast, they don't stop to loaf any more than a
thoroughbred pill, but lust keep right on about
their business.
They are subject to the laws of the State lust
the same as New England rum In Sec. 80 is
an act 'to regulate shAd," and there is man
appointed by the Stale who regulates them, lust
AS we have Il man to regulate the town clock, so
as to have them go correctly. They can come
INTO our bay at just such time, stay Just so
long, spawn so much, and if one allows itself to
BE caught within Il certain time, the penalty is
10 be cut open from belly to back and broled ON
hot grid-ron.
person to like shad wants 10 eat them often
at near intervals, once every twenty foar hours
for eleven or nineteen weeks. The champion
place for getting up au appetite for shad is at a
brooklyn boarding house. The thing there is
reduced to Il science. As soon as shad become
cheap and plenty the landlady announces at the
breakfast table that she vii! have shad for din
neT, The boarder Immediately goes to his room
and puts on the poorest shirt he has, and when
he comes home 20 dinner he has provided him.
self with masnitying glass which makes the
bones look larger. small basket to put the
bones in, tooth pick AMI Il pair of tweezers.
When one eats shad, he wants to eat il he don't
want 10 talk or discuss the state of affairs in
France, as he will get so full of the honey parts
That he viii sigh for a little more Bourbon
When he swallows a bone all he has to do is to
take his twcezers and pull it out; after one
learns the art it is simple and even graceful II
Is calculated that during the shad season good
eater Wlllget from ten TO fifteen bushels of bones
from what shad he cats. After the last Shad is
destroyed, he tears off his shirt. sandpapors OF
The ends of the bones which aGe sticking out
through his skim dons clean linen, and is him
self again. We are an educated shad eater and
we like shad. They are sweet and toothsomc,
and if any Of our friends want to know how 10
Hat them without choking, JUST broil nice one
and call Us in. II we have IN our remarks said
alght that looks as though Wc had wander
al from the truth, we are willing to youch for
correctness by furnishing all sceptcs with a
written affidavit.