Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1901-12-12
NATURE KIND TO THE FISHES
ssjsred Ffss Are Quickly Repaired
Bat These Eatir~Iy ss-- Are
Not Restored.

What nature can do for Eshes in
the way % r-pairing injuries :
sAOWE IN the ease Of a carp now in
the New YORK aquarium, whittier il
was brought sNo year, ago from the
lake il Prospect park. says the New
York Saz-
This carp. whieh ; Is Or - inche.
long. was placed wher Srst received
II = tazk On the gallery ter on the
fresh water side Of the aquarium. in
company with some smaller fishes.
II cidn't Ike the tank or the com
pany and soon after being placed in
II the carp jumped out.
Over this tank a. over al the 9th
ers along the tier. ! a heavy wire
screen, put there TO keep the fishes
IN and keep rats out. Jumping up
against the screen the carp pushed
It aside ard il had gone all but clear
out of the tank when the screen
dropped down again and nipped the
earps tail between i and the IRON
bound edge Of the tank
The carp finished is trip to the
platform four feet below the top Of
the tazk. upon which it landed minus
: square inch OF it. tail. tori OF
when the screen dropped on il.
The earps tail : about three inches
IN length The missing piece. com
prIsing about o1e-third Of the ARA
Of the upper lobe. was torn out Of
the upper extremity. making in tina,
upper end of the nsh's tail a deem
right-angied notch
II has TOW beer % near
y TO its original proportions that no
one not acquainted with the facts
would ever suspect that il had beer
eurtailed al all The rays. or sien-
der spines. that, Ike the stos.ks Of
= ian n Il. form the framework or
skeleton OF the tail. and the wen or
membrane betwesR them have slow
" grown out again. gradually filing
up tsis gap II the f>hs tai and keep
ing on growing until row tba, upDer
lobe i back into practically it, oriri-
nal proportions
This reproduction Of the solid n;sc.
lost cut of the arp. tail s.erx 80.
oerfuL but nature a. J. here shown
: IN fact IN many ways b~enefeent 20
nsnes- Not infregueutly therr arr
received Al the aquarium fishes whos-
ms have been split. the weak6<h he
ing perhaps particularly susceptible
10 such injury.
\ ONE in. for instance.
with the web or membrane Of itx
tan m torn away from some ou- az
the rays TO which il i ATTACHED. =
the body Of a fan might be torn away
IRON some ore Of the stick
commonly with the lanS~ of ,f-~
tais injury l. repaired herr ~.
web and the ray grow together again
beginning AT the inner end 81 h
rent a healing aEd joining exten5.
ing Outward toward the extrsmitx
Little trout. " or three irrha.
IN length. have been received 80
the eorsal almost DESTROYED b. f,,-.
sas, the nm 80 nearly gone that 4,
seemed at first glance TO have g,r-
entirely ard as though the ash ar,
I'm. ~'1
bot IN time these trout have ~aus
Out OF II with dorsaI in fun feather
so to speak salt water baths -.
Killed the fungus and kind uaturr -.
done the rest
And 50 IL might appear that wh~n
q nsh lost a in natur. wou,d -
u another, but il viii not a. a..
VII restore a I'm partly la~,
though commonly rot IN a. p~rs@~,
a form a. the original. bat Il Co..
not repair az Injury that extenss -.
sond where the rays Join. nor xils (,
any nor than IL viii restor. -,
scales, reproduce o IN thar As -.
lost entirely.