The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-11-25

 noise extended successively to all parts of the vessel, and about 3 a. m. it ceased entirely. It was afteFward ac- credited to sounds produced by shoals of fish.
 Lieutenant John White. of the United States navy, reports that when in the mouth of the Cambodia River he ahd his party heard extraordinary sounds around the ship. They were like the mixture of the bass notes of an organ, the ringing of bells, the guttural cries of huge bullfrog and noises that seemed to come from an enormous harp. They seemed to shake the very vessel. These noises increased, and finally a universal chorous on both sides of the ship and along its entire length. AS the party ascended the river the sounds weakened, and then ceased entirely. The interpreter told them that the cause was shoal of fish of fiat oval form which had the power of adhering strongly to various bodies by the mouth.
 The p0gonias or drumfish that inhab- it the Atlantic coast, also make noises that are often heard at great distances. It is thought-but this is not certain that the noise is produced by rubbing the pharyngian teeth together. In the fresh water of the Rio Mataje and the Rio del Moline are found musical fish, which because of this peculiarity, are called by the natives by the name Of 'musicos." @es. .s.s a. ,z
 During an exploration of the Bay of Paiion, in the northern part of the re. public of Ecuador, M. Thornton, with his party, while skirting a shore one day at about sunset, all at once heard strange sound, extremely low, pro- | longed which they thought at first to be the humming of a large bee or insect of some kind. Seeing nothing of the kind, however, M. Thornton asked his oarsman where the noise came from, and was told that it was a kind of fish, called by some sirens and by others "musicos. Advancing little further, { a multitude of differtnt voices were heard, that initiated perfectly the low CT and middle tones of a church organ, heard outside the building, as in the church porch. The concert began about sunset and continued several hours, the exeeutants not being disturbed by the presence of men, but not showing them selves at the surface of the water
 Another traveller, Le Mosle, describes a concert of singing fishes, each one of which emits, as in Russian music, only single note--full, long and grave a sound like that of an ophicleide. These make up most extraordinary "ensem- ble;" each exeeutant plays a unique ] air in a different key. The tones arise everywhere before, behind, in the { boat, and the water in which they are ] produced gives them peculiar quality. The author of this melancholy melody ! is a long fish with large, flat head. 1 The natives call 1t "machovian," It is greenish, spotted, with silyery belly, and has short antennae on tha snout.
 Prayer relates that one night when he was on the Pontiniac, the largest river on the west coast of Borneo, he heard very distinct musicsa sometimes { low, sometimes high, sometimes dis l tant, sometimes near It came from the depths like the song of the sirens, sometimes sounding like a powerful or gan, sometimes like a sweet and har-
 monious Aeolian harp. diver hears { this music much more clearly and per- ceiyes that 1t comes from several dis tinct voices. This music, sGsthe na- lives declare. is produced by fish.
 Several other kinds Of fish are able to l sing. hut their identity is not certain in many cases. The 'doree" (John Doryl, or fish of St. Peter, manifests it's pres ence at low tide, by sort of clucking that has given it the name of water chicken" A ...baliste" (trigger fish) gives out plaintive and melancholy sounds like the creaking of a wagon wheel A pristipome initiates exactly the quack of a duck. Even tha,tunry can thrust it's head out of the water and sing in d voice that initiates a cry- 1 ing irfan;. London Answere