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Show SHARK AS TORPEDO DIRECTOR. Odd Uie to Which Inventor Would Have Put Sea Terror. Fishes have been put to many queer uses while still alive; but probably the strangest was that suggested to the war department by an Inventor. Tbe propulsion of submarine torpedoes torpe-does was the subject under discussion, and he proposed that a shark be Imprisoned Im-prisoned In a tube at the rear end of the projectile. Its movements to be controlled by the active application of electricity. In case the shark attempts cd to swim away It was to be given an electric shock, and In this way kept on Its course until the tropedo had reached Its target. Another remarkable use to which a flsh has been put Is as a barometer The loach Is very susceptible to atmospheric atmos-pheric changes, and when retained In an aquarium Is likely to throw itself out at the approach of or during any remarkable change of wind or weather, weath-er, or, If In a pond or stream, will sometimes Jump on the bank. It has been kept alive in aquaria as a living barometer from the supposition that certain movements indicate particular changes that arc about to occur In tho weather. In Russia the dead body of Cottus goblo, the miller's thumb, Is used as a weathercock. Hung by a single thread, It wll point to the direction direc-tion whence the wind blows. Sunday Magazine. ( |