The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-15

several shots were fred. In short time the
shark made rush for the remainder and bit it
IN Two just above the tail, which was left hang
ing Two pistol balls were fred into its head ak
very snort range, butt swan away and appeared
TO be unhurt
a fisherman says that no has frequently
caught two fish on one hook in the waters of
Long Island Sound, one Of the hsh hav;no
seized hold of the others tail He thinks certain
| hsh have a habit of steering each other tbrnngh
strong currents IN this manner. When takan ont
of the water exhaustion causes them to t,chtan
their hold. and thus the angler is enabled to land
them.
San Francisco possesses two of the larcss4
crabs in the country One is in the collection az
Woodward's Gardens ana the other Is strong
card tor height oring museum" that pictures
the unfortunate decapOd as 0verturning boat
and embroilng crew OF sailors In universal
ruin The crab itself is about twelve or thirteen
feet across from the tip of one outspread claw te
that of the other, and presents a truly formids
BILE appearance. and is a remarkably fine spell
men.
Colin Woods hooked a salmon in the North
Esk, Scotland. 1t was large and obstinate
fish. After Mr.. Woods had played with IL for
ten and a-half hours he gave out but the tsh
was as game as ever. Mr.. Woods's friend, An
drew Brewer, took the rod, and it was thought
that the fish must yield surely, but at the END
of nine hours more the salmon made vigorous
run, and the hook came out OF his mouth with
the fish weighed sixty pounds.
A fishing party, consisting Of the Rev. Dr. j.
B. Bracket of Brookline. John W. Ella and A.
A. Mason, of Chicago and their wives, caught
an enormous sea-turte weighing 1000 pounds,
in Narragansett bay, off Conanicut island, near
Newport, recently They succeeded, after great
difficulty. in towing the monster to the nearest
shore, about o mile, and anchored him there.
with strong ropes Two men were unabbie to.
draw him mp on the shore. 1t was the largest
turtle ever seen in those waters.
thirteen foot crab would astonish the aver
age crabber, but specimens of these spiders of
the sea have been caught in Japanese waters to,
which they are indigenous. that spread from the
tip of one claw to that of the other twenty-five
feet The wader who accidentally stepped on
one OF these creatures would probably find it
out sooner than Pentoppideans fishermen. who,
went ashore on the back of poulpe, and did not
find out their mistake until the heat of their fire
aroused the sleeping giant. and it sank from I'M
der them.
Eclstrom, the Rev. NJ Mo]1er, and other
writers assert that the flesh of pike which has
been struck by bird will heal with the talons OF
the bird in its back, while the bird becomes con-
verted into skeleton which is carried about by
the pike. One skeleton which had long been exr
hibted by pike in Lake Wetter had acquired
greenish tinge and was regarded by the fisher
men as a harbinger of misfortune. Another
skeleton carried by pike in Lake Frysdal was
known to the fishermen a watersprte and
they fed from it in fear. The pike was finally
killed and the watersprite proved to be the skel-
eton of sea eagle.