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). "From the Sandwich Islands and from


China,' was the reply.
(which are considered the finest?"
"Well, there's not much choice" an
swered the proprietor; "the Chinese
goldfish pointing to one tank, "besides
having the largest tails, are much
bigger than those we are able to get from
the Sandwich Islands. You see how
small they are. The natives eat the full
grown fish,"
GLOW do you get them up here9"
Gin large tin cans, and we often lose
several hundred fish out of every
thousand, SO we don't make great deal
on them after all. A can tips over in the
night, and when the fact is discovered
why the fish have been lying around
out Of water for several hours, and are
either dead or dying"
is there any danger of their starving
to death? Doyou feed them, or do they
catch flies for a living?"
"They must be fed some and the wa
ter changed, as we do up here-every
other day if the can or globe is small;
once week for tank"
"What do you feed them on cracker
crumbs?"
"No,p replied the fish fancier, "for
unless the water is changed every day
the -four will begin to ferment and make
stand. There comes a special food for
them, made principally of rice and-but
OF course you can't expect me TO give il
away, you know. But this is what IL
looks like" opening box and displaying
Il pile of thin waicrlike sheets, white
and about two inches square. "Seo how
they go tor it," crumbling sheet of il
over the tank, and Instantly every fish
was at the surface greedily swallowing
every fragment within reach.
do they ever fightW
mot great deal, though sometimes
when new fish is put into the tank the
o hers set upon him, lash him with their
ilnS, chase him around, bite him ana
finally kill him. But there is another
thing in regard to what goldfish eat
rhey are very fond of tho fungus which
forms on the sides OF the tank and on
the shells and stones in an aquarium
Ladies make a great mistake ia always
cleaning out their globes, POLISHING
them until they are as clear rs crystal
They DO not give the fungus chance to
grow"
Are goldfish long-lived?" was next
asked.
THAT depends several conditions
Such us the care and the food they yet
put all being favorable, they will live Il
,ohg tllne; There IS man opposite who
mas had the same fish for seven wears
keeps them in small globe, too, and
they are as lively ~ when he first col
them "
IN most unsatisfactory kind of pet,
should imagine" said the reporter, who
llad been watching the proprietor idlv
uabnllng his hand in tho water, unu0-
tlced by the fish. "Do you believe they
can be tamed?"
The slorekeopor shook his head.
''Some folks think" said he, that when
they stick finger in the water and the
llSh come up and nibblc mt it, it's a sipu
they recognize their owner, but that
all Dosh III my opinion. No matter how
lomg they live they're the same. m
tell you, though, when they do die off,
and that's when ii rains"
"When il rains?r repeated tho puz-
zled reporter.
yes, for after a heavy shower limo is
used TO settle the water in the reservoir.
ana unless we filter the water very
oareinlly the lime in solution kills the
fish,
could the fish be raised in this coun-
tryY" was thoneXt query.
Eyes, why not? There's a Chinaman
above here who is breeding from several
pairs, one of which are each ten inches.
long and for which he asks $50 a pair,
rather more, You see, than our price OF
y or 80 cents apiece"
HAS he complicated apparatus FIR
breeding purposes?"
mo merely tank of water noored
with stones, and in T. considerable OF
such grass as this" pointing to a spiked
variety of fresh-water grass i'm his
aquarium. "rhe spawn is scattered on
the stones and among the grass. He's
making the thing pay, too San Fran
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