The Savannah morning news., 1901-09-19

failed in getting more than it's head
within the shelter, possibly because
four adults, whose feelings had been
outraged by it's sudden appearance and
wanton destruction of an umbrella,
the property of one of the party, laid
hold of It's tail and did not let go UNI
til the monster had fully realized all
the penalties that are the portion of a
fish kept out of water for a longer
period than ten minutes-which period,
according to a certain maid-of-all-
work in the house of an old lady in
Poplar, was the length of time she in
variably allowed her mistress goldfish
in which to have an "airing" on the
kitchen table while she cleared the
aquarium. Although yachting off the
coast of North Devon waiting for the
advent of a thrasher whale upon the
deck would be a delightful occupation
for any fisherman, regarded as meth
cd of catching fish it would be just
about as efficacious as touring Calcutta
in a tramcar in the hopes that the
incident of a few months ago, when a
car was stopped in Dalhousie Square
during the floods by large fish get
ting caught in the wheels, would be re-
peated. /
In the absence of the cat. such as
was owned recently by a gentleman
living at Langholm, that was in the
habit of going out each evening and
returning with a trout which 1t must
have caught itself by means best
known to itself-or the recipe for the
ointment that an ancient angler was
wont, until the police interfered, to
anoint his neither limbs ere he stepped
into the water an ointment that at
tracted fish in shoals to the pedal ex-
tremeties of the statuesque fisherman,
and which so effectively drugged them
that they could easily be caught-the
angler in search of novel methods
might enlist the services of steam
pump. 1t was early last March thai
the steam pump was discovered to be
a most effective agent for catching fish,
and to France we owe the genesis OF
the method. The steam pump In ques-
ton was employed in emptying pond
at the rate of twenty-five gallon or
water to each piston stroke, and 1t
had not long been at work ere 1t was
found that the inhabitants of the pond
were drawn up with their native eie-
ment To fit a metal basket to eaten
everything that was pumped, and to
allow the water and slime to escape.
was the work of very short time,
and when last heard of the pump was
effecting record catches and small
boy was constantly employed in coll
lecting fish and sorting them accord
ing to their species and weight.
A couple of years ago fisherman or
Grief, N. b., felt a bite, and after
playing his fish" for some time, pro-
ceeded to land the same, only to find
that, instead of a fish he had hooked
a bird, which, in spite of its experience
beneath the waves, was still alive. The
bird, 1t should be mentioned, was
a guillemot. A few months before this
experience, an angler on Dover Prom
enade pier succeeded in making
double catch, for the whiting he hook
ed so entangled itself in the iron vane
of the lighthouse that had been
lost several years before as
the result of collision be-
tween the pier and large sailing yes
sci, that both vane and fish were
brought to the surface. The late Sir
Rose Lambert Price was won't to re-
late that during a trip through the
Rocky Mountains he once caught a
trout which he cooked without taking
it off the line. The incident occurred.
ii almost goes without saying, In the
neighborhood of a geyser on the Fire
Hole" river. The angler, happening TO
find a geyser close to where he was
standing when he struck trout, SIM
ply jerked out the fish frcm it's cold
water domain into the geyser, where 1t
found itself in every sense in hot wa
ter: ten minutes later, according to
report--though most connoisseurs
would have preferred the fish to be
boiled for twenty minutes--it was
ready for the table The great draw
back to using a steam pump for angling
purposes would undoubtedly be that In
cidents such as those just mentioned
would necessarily be of the rarest oc-
currence.