Show I USING G FISHES TO TO I SUPPRESS MALARIA I w WASHINGTON Sent 23 Vice Con Vice Con sul suI General Genera C. C A. A Ri of Frankfort sends the following German newspaper I account of a new means me to combat malaria ma ma- I lariat laria arla The Swedish consul Count Birger has discovered a a. species specIe of offish ti fish h called II j which subsists on the larvae of mosquitoes toes toc and md thrives thres es in shallow water By mediation of oi the thc Swedish he communicated tho the fact to the Italian government who took up the matter eagerly and requested the consul to send senda a few thousand of these fishes in in order euler I to expose them in the swamps and I marshes infected with malaria It I proved veT very difficult to find a sufficient number of fishes hut but ho succeeded and andI the tho fist lot was shipped on June Tune 15 to I Naples Nape The success of the experiment is awaited with great rat interest xv Ita Italy and other count countries ne Tho The or blue blueeye eye CC a as the tho fish is i y called in Australia belongs s to th the family of a small kind of carnivorous fish and is ill frequently nth found in the ocean ocean and in rivers 0 of tho the temperate and tropic zones There Theore arp are fourteen principal kinds and n sixty va bub-va in different parts of the tho world Thoy resemble tho the family of and are arc generally seen senn in shallow water The Tho eye blue u y is a 3 very ery small fish about one and one half to to two inches long The Tho name is is due lufi to the brilliant color of tho the iris the mA male mal 1 has haf yellow Jow and anti black fins Gale Gae and ani al also alpo o Stead iu in their the works on Australian AIt fishes describes de do 6 scribes s the blue eve as having copper corre colored fins tins which acquire great brilliancy bril bril- Haney during th the pairing time |