Show Birds and Fishes Used as Candles Candles' t Early Christian martyrs who were were made into torches for night shows in hi In Neros Nero's amphitheaters have their an imal in certain fat birds and arid fishes used as candles by peoples living under primitive conditions Only the birds and fishes supply their own fuel and they are arc dead before the fireworks begin These curious animal torches are arc described by Dr Walter Hough of the j Smithsonian Institution who has hu t gathered a Ii large collection of ot Ilium- Ilium mating appu apparatus from all places and arid times The stormy petrel Dr Hough says was used until unlit recent times as asa asa a torch by the Shetland Islanders The bird is very fat and all that was Wa necessary was vas to introduce a wick into its throat and strike a light The extinct great auk which was a also o an exceedingly fat bird was similarly used for fuel and light by the ancient Danes Indians of the northwest coast COlSt of North America used a fat fish the apparently without without without with with- out even needing to insert a wick The Penobscot Indians of ot Maine made sim sun ilar use of suckers Newfoundland fishermen made light with strips cu cut 1 from the tall tail of the dogfish And farat far at the other end of the earth the New to Zealand muttonfish was used as a torch nh |