Show PET FISH DIVES INTO WATER AND QUICKLY DROWNS Sucker Learns to Live on Land In Oakland Oak and and Dies on Returning turning R to Its Native Element By 81 The Telegram pedal Xe News Neva n OAKLAND Cal Nov 30 30 Horatio is no more Some time last night Horatio died a most unusual death a tragic climax to a remarkable life lite Horatio was a pet sucker which by being able ble to live out of water had baffled the world of science for six months S. S H. H Masters manager of the Realty syndicate one day found the fish flopping in the mud in inthe inthe inthe the Oakland estuary put it in a acan acan acan can of water and brought it home Masters performed one of the scientific wonders of the age by getting the fish to live out of water and he now bemoans the loss of his pet By Dy keeping a constant temperature tempera tempera- ture and removing a millimeter of water each day from Horatio's pool in the back yard of the Masters Masters Mas Mas- home at Fairmont avenue avenue ave ave- nue Masters eventually got the sucker to breathe the atmos atmos- phere The fish fifth was kept in a cage inthe in inthe inthe the back yard but due to the col cold last night Masters brought Horatio into the kitchen Near the kitchen sink was a bucket of salt water While cavorting about the kitchen last night Horatio found the water He heard the call can of the wild and plunged into the bucket where he was found this morning by Masters drowned |