Show FISHES THAT ARE QUIET facts lle several specimens of the finny tribe A great many of our well known fishes do not move from christmas to eaf eier ter and often for fora a much longer period says a writer in our animal frit fair nil ls 1 I paid a visit to the chief Car canadian maian fish hatchery which is under the superintendence of vr mr wilmot at newcastle ona onic early in december in some of the ia tank nl were carp and in others were eels eeli one large eel was wa M in the form of a letter leiter S and poised midway inthe in the water when I 1 returned to newcastle early in march the eel had not ehan changed ed its place or its form and mr Wili wilmot noia assured me ine that it had not CLO t moved ft A iia in all 1 that aime tha carp ilay close clode to tha bottom batto in of the tanks dud and did not clove ore either bither they like to 9 po into deeo lakes or Donds ret pet I 1 close to the bottom und anil remain there till the le ita above thea heads has me melted cited unless they are disturbed I 1 doubt if some 0 of f these thead hibernating fishes move so BO muchal aw a ha fin during the win winter ter A frog will rat remain nain for four months m loii apparently into the heavens with wide vide open eyes without orice once moving thein themos or an any other portion of his body at atthe new york hospital they related to 6 me a curious curious I 1 mccurr occurrence ence bearing on the hibernation of fishes in the conservatory in the upper part of the building they had several glass jars in which were goldfish which is a species of carp one morning the cara caretaker found ajar broken and the water fro frozen frozell zeli through and through the lump was taken away and thrown into a an old rubbish db barrel where it remained ri several eVeral weeks one march d day the su sun n was unusually strong an and d it split the cylinder of lee ice but what was was the astonishment of the caretaker to see the tail of a fl shirr wriggling ing out of a part of a broken block the actual freezing had not killed the fish which was as removed to another tank where it swims about as if nothing had be fallen it I 1 |