Show Animals and Fish Are Able to Emit Electricity Magazine Writer Says A little over a century and a quarter h has p passed since LuIgi Galvan Galvan Gal Gal- V van discovered th that lt some animals were able to emit electricity When I was a l boy I used to take our cat into the cellar and in the darkness stroke it violently tow to w watch the electric sparks fly from its crackling coat writes Oliver G. G Pike F. F Z S. S in Tit Bits M Maga Maga- zinc zine If It the cat had been warmed in front of the fire before the operation op Ope cration it W was lS all the more successfuL successful success success- ful Galvani with his simple experiment ex cx- did not know what electricity electricity elec dec was and even today with all our wonders of 01 wireless waves and other marvels I doubt if It we know what It really is Ages before man harnessed electricity elec some of the wild creatures were using It Some of at the fish found in the ocean depths have searchlights attached to them With these they are able to find their prey while others are illuminated ilium- ilium by rows of oi gleaming portholes portholes portholes port holes along their sides The electric eel found In the Amazon Is perhaps the most remarkable remarkable re re- re Instance of a creature being endowed with willi electricity This fish can give a shock of at several sev seve eral hundred volts and if it kept in an aquarium with other fish soon destroys de them A grown fully electric elec dec trie eel will attain a length of at 8 feet teet and a 8 circumference of ot 24 inches Along each side of ot its tail are electric batteries filled with a like jelly-like substance and In this the electricity appe appears to be stored When the electric eel attacks It it grips with the mouth then brings the t tail liI round to some some other part of ot the victims victim's body The fatal circuit circuit cir dr I is complete A fish found in African seas and known as the electric catfish isable ia is able to give a discharge of ot electricity elec clec- almost as powerful as lS that of the electric eeL The Thc storage chamber of at this fish really consists of the entire body the shock It is isable isable isable able to give is so powerful th that lt the theAr Ar Arabs lbs have named it thunder The electric ray is another living dynamo In la the stomach of ot one of ot these fish caught on our northern shores there was found a pound live salmon which had evidently been electrocuted Some scientists believe that the fish which dwell in the gre great lt depths of ot the Atlantic have their domains lit up with a strange phosphorescence cence but this must be mere mer con con- coni i jecture We do know knoy however that that many of the strange fish found there have the power of at using light which emanates from their own 1 bodies Travelers h have lve seen the sea lit up with a beautiful light on the d darkest night I have watched our ship plowing through what appeared to be liquid gold If It an object was thrown Into the sea It left a splash as though made of molten metal and a fish traveling on the surface left behind behind be be- hind a trail of fire This strange light Is given oil off by myriads of ot I minute spheres called i which float on the surface I |