Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-12-07
A WoRb FOR CATFISH A few day. ago

| Superintendent Crawford, seeiny some live
chased the lot and placed them III sinugh
| near AL Boles house in Carson Valley. The
APPEAL hopes to see the time when the catfish
will secure prestige in Nevada. TIE fish
has always had bad name account IT its
color, associations and habits. 1t is to the
tinny tribe what the mushroom is to the veg
etable kingdo:a, or the negro IS to the vast
human family. While the mushroom shuns
the sunlight, fourlshes under the dark side OF
rotten logs, seeks the damp meadows and
haunts old ruins where it can fraternIZe with
mildew and decay, the catfish prefers to in
habit the darkest pools of the .old mill
ponds and when the sun comes oat it lies
where the slime is the thickest, and the rank
weeds shade its retreat from the sight of men.
Where the water is tinged with the blood of
the decaying red wood and sluggish by reason
of mill dams which choke it's natural flow,
there the catfish burrows in the black mud
and makes its banquet whatever dead
thing chance throws in its way. The big cat
~
watery graves find warm welcome IN the
fishes greedy NAV and all the brilliant coored
insects which fit in the mellow sunshine of
Spring and the clumsy black beetles which
come plunging down into the pool with the |
yellow Autumn leaves, are all snapped up by |
the grateful CATFISH who fattens ali the while |
and diets like Comstock fighting cock. Dc |
when the body of murdered man |
is thrown into the pond with a big stone tied |
10 his neck, the catfish fall into the cold |
eton clean in three weeks, generally sharing
the delights of the banquet with the eeis,
pixies and gar fish which frequent The same re-
sorts. On these merry occasions the big bull
frog is allowed to fold his fore paws over the
board and creak double bass grace, full Of
shankfulness for the good things provided.
When a fish thus fed upon the ripe and rot
ZEN diet which chance and crime furnishes at
nd times, isskinned and dressed for the pan,
lis clear white flesh makes the epicure's pulse
quicken, and if fried in butter and batter, he
discounts the lily -livered trout and lowers the
almon in the estimation of every man who
las ever eaten one. The catfish is immense,
n the head, and his mouth, when open, hides
he balance of his body from view. Just be-
lind his ears are two horns, which have also
ven him the name of bull head He is
allied a catfish in the West because he has
rhlskers like mewler, which branch out Oh t
ach side of his ugly mug. The sense of feel
ng in these is very delicate. But let us speak
the fish in pan frying light. When dress
d and fried he makes the most palatable
lorsels that can be served in the fish line. 1t
astonishing what delicious, highly favored
leat he hides beneath his hideous exterior
nd clammy skin. The gold fish, flashing in T
be sunlight, and the denzens of the trans
aren't streams, which glide aboat dress (
arade, seeking the bottoms where the yellow
snds shine and the foliage is mrrored ciearest
/ the water, that they may show their gaudy !.
,ales, cannot begin to hold q candle with the g
sthsh, when reduced to the memorable level
the frying pan. Ths catfish will in time
AXE its way to the front and hold its proper
ace in the estimation of epicures, and the
PPEAL will never neglect to give it an upward .
post whenever an opportunity presents itself. 4
ne catfish is tawny and ugly, but like the to
rince of Morocco it may well say q
Misliks for my complexion, ez
The Swallowed livery Of the burnistc
- would not change this hue.