Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-11

ct read a few DAYS ago" said an at
tache of the fish commission in Wash
inRton that n fish hospital has been es-
tablished at Vienna for the express pur :
pose of research and observation or SICK
fish 1t would not surprise me TO see
experts in fish diseases in the course oil a
few wears and there would be no great
SUNRISE to know that there are nsh doc
tors located at important points, possibly
AZ various places established by the gov
ernment Richard Guenther. the United
states consul at Frankfort, says that the
Vienna fish hospital will investigate the
biology and pathology of fish, and that
one of the main objects will be to study
whether diseases of fish may be trans
rnitted to- man and to what extent. 1t IS
well known among the experts OF our
institution that fish suffer from diherent
diseases and get puny just like people.
have seen fish show every sign OF SICK
ness Instead of being risky ana IiNeiS,
they would keep SUN anu o'ho
would avoid them.
's,The Vienna hospital is affiXing to each
compartment a scientific diagnosis OF the
disease of the fish that have been treated.
So far it has been found that hsh suher
from intestinal catarrh just like human
beings and several cases of a disease re-
sembIing smallpox in humans have been
discovered. One big dolphin was taken
to the hospital suffering from what was
diagnosed as inflammation of the lungs
These things will be laughed at, but they
are important. People eat hSh just as
they come out of the market or water
without the least consideration as 10
whether they are healthy or diseased
They wouldn't want to eat sick chicken
or turkey if they knew it, and there Is
Just as much reason to suppose fish get
sick and die chickens or any other
living thing. 1t would not be going too
far to saw that fish suffer from diseases
that they transmit to each other, We
have found this out often. When you see
Il dead fish on the water you don't bother
about how it died, and yet you are liable
to eat one at the next meal that was
hauled out by fisherman who knew
nothing and cared less about the health
of his catch.
The matter is really an important one
and ought to be taken up by every gov
eminent. l don't doubt that it will be
quickly established that fish suffer from
all kinds of diseases, but the next thing
will be to discover what ought to be done
with them when they are sick and how to
get ut them. l should think some manner
of getting at sick fish to treat them will
be the most difficult problem to be
solved
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There is a well-known and Justly popular
official of the Post Office Department who
has reached the conclusion that he was
not cut out for a financier. but, like some
other men, lays part of this sad fact
10 his wife. He insists that it was not
his fault. but that he was lured on to his
downfall by the partner of his joys and
SORROWS II happened this way:
Some time since the young couple de-
termined to give up their city house and
with their youthful offspring take place
in the suburbs where the aforesaid Off
spring might dig in the bosom of Mother
Earth and otherwise compOrt himself as
is the wont of youthful branches. In the
city they had a lovely gas stove, but in
the suburbs there was noF gas. So they
determined, at the urgent insistence, so
the man says, of his wife. TO part with
their treasure. 1t had cost them sixteen
dollars and they knew they could sell it
at auction for at least half that sum, since
1t was in good condition as the day
they bought it.
a push cart to take it to an auction room
for which service he paid the pusher %
cents. Then they went to the suburbs.
In a few days a letter inclosed in an Off
Cial envelope came to the man. 1t bore
the card of the auction house and incIosed
with the letter was check for Is cents.
Then he read the letter and found that
the stove had been sold at auction for %
cents, that the commission on the sale
was I cents and that the balance due the
former owner was IS cents, for which
check was inclOsed.
Then the man took a pencil and some
government paper and began to figure.
Sixteen dollars for stove; p cents for its
removal TO the auction room; total, $16.2J.
Received from the sale, SIS; loss on the
transaction. $l6.G7. He studied for time
and then sadly reached the conclusion re-
ferred TO. Since then he has not cared
for auctoneers.
x x = x !
Il have had a number of seances with a
dentist during the past several weeks"
said a local newspaper man the other day,
and each time l have noticed that after a
siege of two or more hours l was almost
completely overcome with sleep. l found
that upon reaching home and eating dinner
l was ready to undress and go right to bed.
Upon getting in bed uader these conditions
however, 1 found that sIeepiness left me
almost as soon as l got between the sheets.
Upon my next call at the office of the
dentist / asked him if there was any scien-
titic reason for such a result from spending
a considerable time in the chair of torture
He answered in the negative, but at the
same time gave me bit of information
that could hardly have been believed were
not his highness the dentist known TO be a
truthful man. He said that twice within
the past several weeks while he was work
ing on men patients each had gone sound
asleep in the chair. one of them, he said.
actually snored away as though he at
perfect peace with the world. The other
let him move his head and jaws at will and
did not awaken until the entire operation
was over. The dentist said both of the
operations were very painful. He could
not, he said, explain from any scientific or
other standpoint the apparently hypnotic
influence"
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'Roosevelt's BOOSTERS is the alliterative
and odd-soundng name of a new juvenile
organization in Washington, the members
Of which hope to make their first appear
ance on parade in the inaugural pageant
March I. The Boosters are coIored boys