The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-01
CANTON, MISSISSIPPI, APRIL ], 1876.


positively hot. 1t is admirably adapted
for the composition of the sinful beverage
with which the Californian miner clarifies
his vision SO that he can perceive the
| spiritual snakes that are invisible to or
binary eyes; but except in connection
with whisky, sugar, and lemon-peel it is
manifestly unfit for thirsty men. In this
hot water were, nevertheless, found guam
titles of fish of an entirely new pattern.
Like the fish of the Mammoth cave, they
are destitute of eyes, but unlike all pre-
vious fish, they can live only in hot water.
When the experiment of placing them in
cold water was tried, they Immediately
showed symptoms of suffering from cold
fins and tails, and presently died in great
anguish. of course, their color was a
bright red, in consequence of the pro-
longed boiling which they had under
gone, and it is probable that they were
eaten ON the spot by the hungry miners.
The Importance of this disco, very to
fishmongers, keepers of restaurants, and
house-keepers generally can hardly be
Overestimated. If boiled fish can be
caught, all the trouble now required in
cooking raw fish will be avoided, and if
it is possible to develop race of fishes
that can live in boiling water, it is
equally possible to develop a breed of
hot water Holsters, or CLAIMS, or oysters.
Whether it would be possible to develop
a race of roast turkeys by breeding the
birds in hot house, in which the tenn
perature should be increased say one de-
gree every six months, may be doubted,
since at high temperature eggs would
be Matched with such rapidity as to Sc
riously inconvenience a hen-turkey of
slow and methodical habits. Still, the
existence of living roast turkeys does
not seem much more improbable than
the existence of living fish in a boiled
state seemed a week ago; and the day
may yet come when our poultry can be
placed on the table without undergoing
the fearful risk of cooking at the hands |
Of a newly imported Hibernian, and our
fish can be eaten on the banks of their
native caldron, without the aid of a fry
ng-pan or gridiron.
There is but one thing which casts the |
slightest doubt upon the possibility of |
,he development of boiled fish. The |
California miners insist that they have
zen the hot-water fish of the flooded |
nine with their own eyes, and we cannot
ioubt that they make the assertion in
rood faith. Still, it would he interest
ng to know if they drank any of the hot
water, in a properly medicated state, be-
ore catching the fish. If SO, there is
possibility that the vision of the boiled
ish was only delusion of the imagina-
ion. 1t is currently reported in alco-
lolic circles that the California miner
ften seen in his uneasy dreams whole
nenageries of curious animals, including
lot only those already known to natural
sts, but other and hitherto unclassifed
casts, birds, and reptiles of the most &C.
entric conformation and undesirable
abits. If we are to class the boiled fish
f the Red Dog mine with the insubstan-
ial fauna of California dreams, there is
n end in the exultation with which OAR
,inians and lovers of fish diet have re-
eived the story of the flooded mine.
LET us, however, hope for better things.