The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-05-05
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An Interesting Fish story and Scale
SeII-NO Bones Broken ~ Yet.

An Interesting Fish story and Bealey
SeII-NO Bones Broken NJ Yet.
Fish Commissioner Miller had an item
for the reporters yesterday.
And they took itin-tcok 1t In, you bet
they took 1t In,
Waving q dispatch n Ills hand like
Longtellow's youth who cried excel.
Bior,h the scribes were told that the annual
run OF shad from the south, or the sea, had
set 10 aud:that the bonny, honey fish had
| left 81. Louis yesterday, and with large
cargo Of glue material aboard were On
route 10 the head waters Of navigation
where they had some family duties 10 at.
tend to In the way Of spawning. The Fish
Commissioner OF that city desired infor.
nation as to the rapidity Of their travel
and requested Fish Commissioner Miller
10 pet bis pole and line ready for the adj.
vance guard OF the school" and 10 lei
him know Of their frat approach by
telegraph.
This seemed alright enough, and re.
porter oil this paper, who had never seen
nothing but q portion Of o ghAd in com.
pany with soup Of hotel, asked In def.
erential way ia peculiar characteristics az
distinguished from ten pounds Of second.
hand hair pins stuck In three ounces Of
tripe2
1.-THE shad," said Mr.. Miller, 'tis OF the
herring family, but different from the
family proper, In having the centre Of the
| law deeply notChed. There are more than
twenty species oil Bhad. The American
shad is about twenty inches long and var.
les in weight from two TO six pounds"
"Well, now. q two pound Bhad twenty
inches long, Mr.. Miller, would make q
mighty good horseradlsh crater, Mr.. Mil.
Ter, aye, asked the reporter.
dNo, you don't understand me. OF
course their length Is proportional 10 their
weight"
"Weil, wait moment. What does q
shad with its hide on look like2"
1.-THE upper pArtol the sides and gillS are
coppery, lower parts Of aides Bllvery, abdo.
men pearly, and top Of head and back
BLUSH more or less distinct black blotoh
at the postetior angle Of the gill cover;
rides Bilveryi dorsal on anterior part OF
back, quadrangular, transparent and
shutting in q groove, pectotAl and ven.
LThlb bluhllt huu huhl INV auu phIuy IeS
Ceived In 0 groove; scales large, and OBJ.
dominial ridge serfated."
"Mr. Miller" again aSked the reporter,
team you tell mo how 1t ig that shad eau
wiggle its tail and flop It's Ans without
tagging itseli2"
Mr.. MI give II up"
"When do you expect this animated
cargo Of bone toothpicksW
"Can't say. They may come at any
hour but I'll have bone 10 pick with
them"
The reporter then get up The soda water,
and going up street, ran across an init.
mate friend who looked as though he had
something on bis mind. The pencil
wielder bOned him 10 tell II, and learned
that the Bhad business was o bAre.iaCed
and spawned hoax. A lot Of Mr.. Millet's
boon companions had Counterieited dis.
patch 10 The effect noted above, and Mr..
Millet's disqulsLiohs on the subject Of
shad were appreciated by those ID the 90.
cret.
And 90 1.-THE hfst run" is on MI Miller,
and he is now iAmiliatly dubbed @shad.
fach." No shad would be In seine enough
10 come MP 10 Wheeling when they can
rock their young In The cradle Of the deep
down about Hates Rock or Wegee.