The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-01-06
QUEER FINDS IN FISH.
The Stomach of a Cod Is Some
times a Sort of Museum.
A GLUTTON, NOT AN EPIcURE

Al! Manner of Odd Things Are Eagerly !
Devoured by This Foraeious Feeder. |
The Singular Adventure Of Ten
Dollar Gold Piece.
One day in 1908 A. Z. Levy of New |
York felt the piscatorial fever surging |
through his system, so took day Off |
and went out TO the fishing banks to
try his luck. Az he was dressing his |
catch that same evening he discovered |
in the stomach OF a cod a ten dollar |
gold piece, with two diamonds set on
one side and the initials P. c. E. on the
other. Levy was so amazed that he
sent the story to the papers, and it was
copied throughout the country.
He hardly expected ever to hear from
it, but few weeks later was surprised
to receive a letter from Patrick c. Ey-
ans, residing in Kansas. who claimed ,
the piece as his own and presented suf-
ficient evidence OF this to satisfy Levy,
who accordingly turned it over to him,
1t seems that Evans was in New York
earlier in the year and spent day
Establishing in the lower bay. and as
he was hauling in a fish the chain to
which the coin was attached got caught
in the rigging Of the sloop. which just
then rolled, the chain snapped, and
away went the coin, never to be recov
cred, as he then supposed.
One of the saddest finds recorded
was that of ST Johns (N. F. fisher
man, who discovered a wedding ring in
the entrails Of a cod in 1871. 1t was
eventually proved to have belonged to
Pauline Burnam, an Englishwoman
who was lost in the steamship Anglo
Saxon. wrecked Off Chance Cove. n. F.,
in 1861. The lucky fisherman received
a present of ESQ for restoring the high.
~ priced memento to the woman's son.
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 fish a
golden bracelet How the ornament
came into its strange receptacle is. OF
course, not known, but it is conjec
tured that 1t 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
and bait doomed for some time, and
all because one of the local anglers
shortly before had landed a good sized
fish. and when il came to be dissected
on the domestic table 1t was found 10
include" diamond ring declared 10
be worth $3.50.
While discharging a fare OF Goldfish
from the schooner Winnie NJ. Getchell
at Gloucester Mass. in 1886. Captain
john NJ. GetchelI, master Of the vessel,
found imbedded In the thick flesh of
large cod knife of curious workman.
ship. The fish was caught on the
northeast part of Georges bank In
seventy five 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 posterior end or the handle
was nearest the tail of the fish. tie
ucen at THIS pace Delli2 ABOUT TWO ana
half inches thick. The knife when
closed was three and fve-eightbs
inches long.
In 1884 Captain McEachern of the
Gloucester schooner \. F. Clifford
found 4 knfe-oue Of the kind known
to fishermen as q paddock ripper-in
the stomach OF u forty-fve pound cod
which had iseen caught on the Lc Have
bank.
Lars Petersen, an able seaman Of the
steamship Hypatia, which arrived in
New York in 1913 from St Lucia
/ made a curious find on the voyage
| After the vessel left St. Lucia a large
gray shari- was seen following It, Fo,
two days 1t continued in the wake OF
the ship. when Petersen resolved t.
get it. Procuring a large hook he bait
ed it with salt pork and after some
difficulty landed the monster. which
/ measured almost twelve feet from tip
! TO tip. Upon opening it's stomach Fe
/ tersen discovered there ring with the
| initials L. FL. B. engraved on the In
| side.
| Owing to the fact that cod seek their