Show COLORING FISHES flowers can be artificially co colored lorea we know with more or less success by chemical agency animals generally escape counterfeiting with few exceptions the latest in counterfeiting is the carp in sicily it is said that by introducing into the water chalk iron and a little peat colors colom will bo be imparted to the carp after treatment in a bath of these concomitants for a fortnight the fish is gien another chemically prepared bath into which is introduced iron and tan by increasing or diminishing the quantities the colors can be cither either ac accentuated or diminished the process is somewhat hazardous but wo we learn from a pans paris contemporary that in the end an apparently new species of ornamental fish is produced which commands a high price london globe |