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Show CARP OVnn A CENTURY OLD. Itauarkalil I'liealoiUt Tata from Cant-hililxe, Cant-hililxe, ("Dxlaad. Slorlea, mora or leu authenticated, of fish which hare attained extremo old ago nro common. Who, for Instance, has not read of the rapture ot llih bear Ing platei with Intervillous to notify that they bad been prcrlously captured nnd returned to the wnter centurlei belore? Ilut to these stories the nver-pga nver-pga plscator, rendered weary by experience ex-perience of tho clasa ot anecdote which anxlets relate in each other, usually lend little iredence, It seems, however, how-ever, that in the pond of i:mmnnue! College, Cambridge, thcro dwell rout rarp, concerning ono of whlih thcro It fairly strong clrcuimlantlsl evidence to prove thnt It Is nearly ISO years old It has only ono eye, and Iter. A. 0. L. Howling recollects u one-eyed carp In Iho samo pond In ISCT which, ho nil told at the time, was over 100 jeurt old. Since then he has discovered In Sir John llawklua' edition ot "U'al ton'a Completo Angler," published In 1701, n footnote quoting an article of n dally paper published In August, 17S1 tu tho effect that "In the basin of Km luanutl College, Cambridge, n carp wa then living (but hnd been in the wntei thirty-six years, which, though It had lost ono ), know and would constnnt ly npproach Us keeper." There aro, ol raurto, largo gaps between the datet of 1710 (when tho rarp la said In hare Ixen placed in th wnter), 178!, lai.7 and 1SW. Ilut, seeing that In 176J u onc-ejed earp waa thin credited with tliltty-alx year of reeldcnce, that In 1SB7 n one-eyed carp said to bo "orer 100 )ara old ' waa still there, and that u oua-oyeil carp, believed to bo of great ac.. It thero 11111, th roncluilon Ii natural that It h been the same one. eyed carp nil thn time. |