A little flaby fishy 1 I see ly by the papers that some young lady fisher of men at an eastern summer resort recently landed a mermaid a foot long and as black as ebony said isaac bergman recently in the tha rotunda of the lindell 1 I once had bad a stranger catch than that I 1 iwas was whipping a s stream tre a min in new hampshire for mountain trout when I 1 landed a creature half man and half eel its head neck and breast were re perfect barring hair pf af which it had bad jonii none it might however have liken been a patron of the submarine ballet its alm fingers ers were webbed and from the waist do down wait it was a slimy wriggling eel tho the eyes were black as sloes aloes and had a vicious look the creature was perhaps fourteen inches anlon in length ath and as hard to hold 63 a s a 10 pound trout I 1 put it in my pail fad it at once began a war of extermination on the other inhabitants killing them all in a very few minutes then it began to chafe at its confinement striking and biting at the sides of thi pail it kept this up for several hours houra and d then thea floated to the top of the water ead 11 st louis globe democrat