OCR Text |
Show Good News for Anglers. A now typo of fishhook, tho Invention Inven-tion of 13. Hlndon Hyde of New York, shows how even the simplest thing of common life can be readily Improved. Im-proved. The Improvement consists In transferring the barb of the hook from the inside of the point, thnt Is, botween the point and tho shank, to tho opposite side of the point, so that It lies on the outsldo of tho hook. The advantngo of the new hook Is thnt It renders It much moro dlfllcult for a hooked tlsh to releaso himself upon a Blnck line. This Is duo to tho fact that tho new location of tho barb creates a bar to tho extraction of tho hook after It has penetrated, and nlso to tho fact that tho barb, Instead of playing against tho soft mucus membrane mem-brane of the mouth to prevent releaso ns In tho old stylo of hook, presses against tho hard epIdermlB. Scientific Scien-tific American. |