Show FROZEN FISH iahey they C come me to llie life after a long imprisonment in lee ice at the waterworks water works pump house in i n richmond ich mond ind there stands a large fountano foun fountain tanj with a basin which measures about ten in feet across and of that fountain a correspondent of theaphil the Phil philadelphia a bulletin tells the following story IL last ast fall three bass were put in the basin s e each ach weighing perhaps one and a half pounds pound it was not supposed d that the water in the basin wo would u id freeze reeze but one very cold night it did and the three bass were imprison imprisoned benea beneath t it a thick layer of ice the cold weather kept up and the water froze deeper and deeper until the whole mass of water finally became adolid a solid and frigid mass and the fish were ivere in a transparent tomb tho the flowing water from the fountain kept freezing until a gigantic pyramid had been for twelve feet in height the bass were plainly visible and the remarkable manner in which they had been caught attracted much attention recently during a rain the ice melted and the fish which were encased nea sd fr for over three months were left driff f on the water the engineer was about to throw them away for dead cheah when he noticed that one of the fish 1 wiggled 11 a fin and to his surprise found that it was still alive all three of the fish returned to life after a few hours basking bashing in the sunshine and they are now swimming around in a lively manner with no visible evidence of their long sleep in a frozen mass of ice |