Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-12-03

cYMAToCA>TEE AGGREGATUS-ADCLT rE-
 MALE
 like a brcam ur one of the perch family, and tho scientists who first found them believed thtm to be either breams or percbes, but when they slit them open with n knife they were amazed to find a dozen or I1orr young, fully developed fishes pop out. At first 1t was believed that the largo fish had swallowed the lit tie ones. but when an investigation was made it was discOvcrCd that this fish, to which MT Gibbons gave the name of Cy- madagascar RggrrPatus, was viviparOus-
 Then began the investigation into this curious anomaly of fish propagation, and it was not until recently, with the valua- ble assistance of the United States fish commission. that satisfactory and conclu sive data were obtained about this embry- olnGical freak. It is now positively ascer- tained that not only does this little fish bring forth its young alive, but that, con- trary to the habits of all other fishes, even of its own species, m actual population takes place in the month of June or July in each year Five months later the eggs in the female begin to show signs of life, and in another five months the moth CT gives birth'tO from 10 to 20 young fish, which swim around and take care of them selves a moment later. us if they had been a year in tho water.
 Perhaps the most curious thing about tho viviparity of these fishes, apart from the anomaly of the conditions, Is the fact that, although tho fish itself is only about II inches long and from to inches deep, 1t gives birth tO 10 to 20 living youngsters |" inches long by three quarters to an inch deep, but this is ex- plainable by the peculiar as we'll as ingen- ious method which nature has arranged. s,,~ sac or pouch, doubled upon itself, after the fashion of n lady's accordion plaited dress. Within each fold or plait one lit tie fish is neatly packed. They do not all lie heads toward one point, but heads and tails, this cconomizing space and at the same time being allowed to take ad- vantage of the plan for their sustenance which nature has so ingcniOusly devised These fishes arc to be found during all the summer months in the markets of San Francisco and other western seaports They seldom find their way east, but they are very toOthsomc, and, apart from their value for tho table, 1t would be not unin- tercsting to housewives and others who purchase them to examine the numbers of little ones which they find upon open ing them. If they put those little young sters In water. they will sec that they arc as brisk and lively ns possible if the moth VT lS HUI Abo AAlS anu At NAA 1N ~AAA- ous information for them to know that the little ono were not swallowed, but are the actual 1.-Two progeny of the fish they purchase as brCam or perch.
 It should not be omitted that tho young, | which, as have observed, are often found alive in the dead mother. make a capital | in fact, recheVchc-tiish if cooked after the | fashion of whitclait.
 Ron. F. WALSH. Some one has figured that 1t cost Yale ! sa6o day for fonthall last year. | Yale has had total uf 2I graduate. | coaching football clcvcns this scason. William \. Oppcrman of the Monterey | Football club of New York, while playing recently, received injuries thnt caused hi,
 death.
 | By defeating thc University of Nurtf ! Carolina the Rutgers college team won q
 turkey dinner.
 \ Tho University uf Misconsin fOOthal | eleven has not been sr,,retf against thii I season. Wisconsin rccCntly administers | the first defeat ever sufTcp'd ly the Uni
 versity of Minnesota team.
 In speaking of Pcnnsylvania's offcnsiy'
 plays tho Princeton players say that the.
 are about tho most severe and exhaust
 ing to stop that they have ever encounter
 ed, far moro so, in fact, than tho rnomen
 tum mass play. of last year.