Evening journal., 1907-03-04
QUEER FINDS N FISH,
The Stomach Of a Cod Is Some
times a Sort Of Museum.
A eLUTToN, NOT AN EPIcURE

All Manner Of odd Things Are Eagerly
Dcveured hy This Vor1o.o-s Feeder.
The cinsuiar Adventure Of Ten
Dollar osld Piece.
One day IN 1903 A. Z Levy Of New
York felt the piscatoridl fever snrgins
through his system SO took day OF
aud went oui 60 the lsllng banks TO
try bis uck As he was dressi4G h.5
catch That same evening" he discovered
in the stomach OF cod ten dollar
gold piece with two diamonds set on
one side ana the initials T.. G.. +, on The
other Levy was SO amazed that lie
sent the story to the PAPERS and It was
copied throughout the country.
Tie hardly expected ever % hear FROM
&C. but a few weeks later was surprised
TO receive letter from Patrick g. Ev-
ans. residing IN Kansas, who claimed
the piece ms hls own ana presented suf-
fcent evidence OF this 60 satisfy Levy.
who accordingly turned It over 70 iiuI.
Il seems that Evans was ln New York
earlier Ia the year and spent q day
/ blackhshing IN the lower hay. nnd as
De was hauling Ga a fish the chain in
which the con was attached got caupht
ln the rigging of the slJop. which Just
then rolled. the chain snapped. ald
away went the coin never TO be roc0v-
orcd as h2 thea supposed
One of the saddost finds recorded
was ,hat Of ST. johns (N. F) nsher-
man. who discovered a wedding ring Ia
the entrails Of a cod "a 1871. Il was
eventually proved 70 have belonged TO
Pauline Burnam. an Englshwoman
who was lost I'm the steamship Anglo
Saxon. wrecked on Chance Cove. y. j..
I'm 1861 The lucky fisherman received
present OF ESQ for restoring the high
Is priced memento to the woman's son.
A Havre fsherman's wife, drying
goldfish caught by her husband on the
coast Of France in 1904. noticed That
one fish had hard substance inside.
On investigation she found IN the Ash a
golden bracelet How the ornament
came into iis strange receptacle is Of
course. not known. but Il Is coniec-
tured that Il must have slipped from
the wrist OF some fair passenger lean
Ing over the bulwarks OF a transatlan-
tic liner and been seized by the cod
Last year the greater part of the
male and part Of the female population
OF the village OF Portishead, at the
mouth OF the Avon. In England, turn
ed anglers for awhile. Fishing tackle
ana bait doomed for some time, and
all because one OF the local anglers
shortly before had landed a good sized
fish. and when II came to be dissected
on the domestic table II was found to
"include" a diamond ring declared to
be worth $3.50.
While discharglng a fare OF Goldfish
from the schooner Winnie NJ. Getcheli
at Gloucester. Mass. in 1886, Captain
John NJ. Getchell, master OF the vessel,
found imbedded IN the thick flesh Of a
large cod a knife OF curious workman
ship. The FISH was caught on the
northeast part Of Georges bank in
seventy-hve fathoms OF water and
was apparently healthy. The knife
was not found until some time after
the fish had been cured. When found
the knife blade was closed. and the
small or posterlor end or the handle
was nearest the tail OF the fish, the
flesh at this place being about two and
a half inches thick. The knife when
D closed was three and fve-elghths
inches long.
In 1884 Captain McEachern OF the
!. Gloucester schooner A. +. Clifford
r found a knife-one OF the kind known
e to fishermen as haddock ripper-ln
il the stomach OF a forty-fve pound cod
S which had been caught on the lie Have
r bank.
e Lars Petersen, an able seaman OF the
5. steamship Hypatia. which arrived IN
n New York IA 1908 from St Lucia,
E made a curious find on the voyage.
a After the vessel left st, Lucia a larga
D. gray shark was seen following It. For
n two days II continued IN the wake Of
the ship, when Petersen resolved to
8 get II. Procuring a large hook he bait
n ed It with salt pork and after SONS
D. difficulty landed the monster, which
Il measured almost twelve feet from tip
to tip. Upon opening It's stomach Pc
ID tersen discovered there a ring with the
Il initials 4 II. B. engraved on the IN
" side.
VWAAh 10 III" AANN AAANA NNA NNNA AANAA
IL food on the bottom and are voraclous
le feeders, their stomachs when opened
% frequently present a curious and some
'r times amusing collection OF odds and
ends Bits Of leather, marline spikes
y iron bolts, a ball OF twine leader
% sounding plummets. hoofs Of deer. scis
y sors. brass, oil cans. potato parlngs
corncobs. the head Of a rubber doll
stones and big shells have been founs
. in them. A Goldfish caught at Vinegar,
Haven was found to have IN It's stom
ach two full grown ducks. Whel
n taken out they were quite fresh, hay
- ing most of their feathers on.
: Because the heel OF a rubber boo
~ and fragments OF a rubber coat. to
i gether with a knife, were found il
\, the stomach OF cod one day
~ Gloucester wag reported, and the sto-
4, was taken seriously for time. tia
,a the hsh had eaten the fisherman t
~ whom they had belonged and tha
i these were the undlgested fragments
h, New York Tribune.
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- Mean.
on Maude-Tom IS a strange fellow. Ht
ell proposed to me In church last Sunday