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Show FISHY. Catch Smelts by the Wagonload. A great run of smelt is now going up the Sandy river, the first one in about eight years. The little fish are to be seen in a sohu column coming from the Columbia river. Hundreds of persons, attracted by the sight, are catching the smelt in dip nets and buckets and hauling them away by the wagonload. Farmers Farm-ers are coming in by the score every day to get a supply of fish for" pickling pick-ling and smoking. The run probably will last for several sev-eral days, and then the season for the smelt will close until next winter San Francisco Chronicle. Coloring Fishes. Flowers can bo artificially colored, we know, with more or less succoss by chemical agqncy. Animals generally gen-erally escape counterfeiting, wi$h few exceptions. The latest in counterfeiting counterfeit-ing is the carp. In Sicily it Is said that by introducing intro-ducing Into the water chalk, Iron and Uttle peat, colors will be imparted to the carp. After treatmenr in a natn of these concomitants for a fortnight the fish Is given another chomicaliy prepared bath into which is Introduced lion and tan. By increasing or dL minishlng the quantities the color can bG either accentuate or diminished. The process Is somewhat ha.ardous, but we learn from a Paris contemporary contem-porary that in the end an apparently new species of ornamental lish is pio-duced, pio-duced, which commands a high price. London Globe. MY GARDENS. My garden it is pretty, but Indeed I greatly f.ear I have the pussy-willows and The dog-wood much too near! Town Topics. |