The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-07-11
A VEGETABLE FISHERMAN.
A Plant That Goes AFishing-An Enemy
of the Fish CuIturIsts.

Plant That Goes AFishing-An Enemy
of the Fish CuIturIsts.
"Anything new? Any twenty pound
trout or continental fish storie, in the
air?" asked a reporter of fish culsurist
grown rotund in the Government en-
ploy.
'Yes, there is something new" re-
piled the fish man, Come in and look
at these weeds.
The visitor took the. seat indicated at
table covered with dishes containing
variety of plants, small fishes. mag
nifying glasses, and other material in
cidental to the fish culurist' 5 profession,
and looking through the glass handed
him, saw what had apparently been a
mass of weeds become clear and distinct
and resolve itself into a delicate brush
like aquatic plant, covered over at the
juncture of the various stems with
number of bladder-like objects of a rich
green hue and seemingly made up of
innumerable facets, so that they APP
peared like mimic vases of richly col
ored metals hammered into shape by
some fairy worker in metal.
Chipping one OF these niue vessels
from It's deIcate stem me hsn cuIturlst
placed IL upon tne sIiue Oh microscope
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