| Show A marino mitat Is 18 lef of 01 all the strange fishes or animals or snakes ot of the sea the strangest drifted ashore at tillamook Tilla 4 few days ago says an astoria dispatch the fish it if it can be termed a ash is the only one ot of its kind over ever seen in the northwest and ad probably on the coast r was found cyina on tha hau ha hn ob u I 1 ing been up by tho the recent heavy storm the cause ot of its death was as not apparent from any wounds on the body its death struggles attracted the attention ot of a man walking along the teach beach and he was thunderstruck to discover the tha cause of the commotion corn motion the fish Is not unlike the octopus in general appearance although it differs materially in the long arms anna the body Is the exact counterpart of an intercollegiate football though much larer artor arter the strangest part of this flan fish in thab tb mouth unlike anything in the fah line ever heard of tho the mouth waith takes up nearly one hi ot oi tho body Is provided with e P arak ditke tha of as an eagle baglo or hawk this beak la Is ot od bone and very hard when extended the jaws reach about sixteen inches and are provided with double rows of teeth the body which la Is eighteen inches in length exclusive of the beak which Is five inches long Is covered with a tough skin studded with short heavy horns near the center of the body are the eyes two green blazin blazing 1 specks the fish also has a tall something like that of a beaver tho the tall tail Is provided with a keel the fish has eight arms each about five feet in leneth each bach arm is fitted with tiny teeth set in many cup shaped cavities unlike the octopus or devilfish the tillamook monsters arms are not provided with suckers the teeth doubtless answer the pose the arras arms project tour four on each ea cb side of the body bady at the end of each arm Is a toothed mouth tho the arms can be drawn nearly the whole length into the body they are perhaps one and one halt half inches in diameter |
