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Show AShorreror FIihM. The writer has before him at this moment three small fishes of a tropical trop-ical species; two alive and well, tho third preserved In wood alcohol. They are relics of one of the most remarkable fish showers on record. On June IS of the present year there was a cloud-bunt two miles north of Sibley, Iowa, which was accompanied accom-panied by a fall of millions of small fish of the species known in south-em south-em latitudes as axalalL The three piscatorial specimens mentioned above were sent to the writer on July 4, after having been kept in a rain barrel for nearly a month. The two living specimens still seem lively and happy, but will not cat. It is only a question of time when they, too, will take "a bath in wood alcohol. &. Lends Republican. |