New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-08-18
The Chimnrn or Rat Fish.

This is one of the most singular OF tho
inhabitants of the seas, so singular that
naturalists make it o distinct order of
fishes, and so singular that its very
strangcness makes it common in mu-
seums, since even fishermen and sailors
often preserve specimens on account of
their grotcsque appearance. 1t is in
many parts of its structure similar to 4
shark, but instead Of having several gill
openings has only one, like an ordinary
fish; the cartilage which serves for bone
in the head of the fish is all in one piece,
without distinction between skull, upper
jaw, ETC., and there is upon the snout q
curious cartilaginous projection armed
with recurvcd teeth on its bottom like
extremity. Two kinds arc known in
the Atlantic, and one in the Pacific, but
from information received from Mr..
loan Petrof, editor of the Alaska Ap-
peal, it is not unlikely there may be
second species on this coast. The only
kind yet known in these waters was de-
scribed and figured in 1889 in the $40
ology of Bccchey's Voyage" and has q
long thread-like appendage to the tail
fin; but Mr.. Petroff says that one he
saw on his last trip to Alaska had no
such appendage. No work on natural
history with which am acquainted at
tempts to explain the use of the curious
excrescenceson the top of the head, with
its terminal armament of sharp hooks;
but the action of the one last mentioned,
which caught a finger of the cabin boy,
who was handling it between these
hooks and the top of the head, and took
piece of llesh:clean out, would indicate
that it is a weapon of defense, perhaps
| also of offcnse. The individual alluded
to was taken in deep water, while flsh-
ing for halibut and cod, and its stomach
was full of broken pieces of shells. Mr..
Petrof promises to endeavor to procure
specimen for our museum on his next
trip northward.-W. N. L., IN Pacific
Nothing Wasted.
There is beef packing company ut
Rockport, Arkansas County, Texas,
owned and run by Boston men, who
market for the products in the New En-
gland States, Europe and the English
Navy. The factory kills an average OF
81, 500 CRASHED beeycs year, and finds
a ready market for their products
Every part of the beef is utilized, excn
to the tuft of the tails. which are all pre-
served and sold, it is thought for the
purpose of making ladies' frizzcs. The
blood flows into tanks and is dressed and
sold at two cents a pound for the manu-
facture of artificial fertilizers The lean
beef is boiled and canned in two-pound
cans. The hides are sailed and sold
green. The fatty matter is all extracted
and goes to make tallow. The bones
are all boiled to a pulp to extract it's
fatty matter which goes to tallow, and
the dry bone. mainly phosphate OF lime,
is sold for fertilizing, at ono cent a
pound. The water in which the meat is
boiled is boiled down and eyaporated to
thick paste, which is canned and sold
as "extract OF beef in fifty pound
cans. The feet are cut off at the knee.
and from the hoof "neat's foot oil Is
extracted. The horny part Of the foot,
the shin bone and the knuckle bones Of
the foot, are extracted and sold in the
East for the manufacture Of Yankee
ivory. The horns are piled up until the
pith becomes loose, and then this is
added to the fertilizers, and the bones
sold for manufacture. Every atom Of
the animal is used. England Home.
stead.
THERE are several methods Of de-
stroying lice on cattle. A very simple
and harmless one is to apply an infusion
made with quassia. Procure Of drug
gist portion, say 1-2 h. Of quaasia
chips; place themin vessel and pour
either cold or tepid water on them; the
infusion is ready to use as soon O. it
becomes decidedly bitter, and Is to be
applied by washing the parts Of the ami
mails most affected by the parasites.
The infusion IS ne .roisonous, and the
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