— aquatic
Then with
ing sunfish.
swing of a
like the
motion exactly
a
pugilist's
fist,
he would
one could see him only brown arc. Bing! When tough little "mug" hit a sunfish, and
strike so fast that
as a blurred, his
he never missed, that sunny went sailing
But the sunnies came back every time, game as bantam cocks. Then it would be bing! biff! bang! for a few seconds, until the combatants retired to the weeds to glare and bristle and accumulate energy and courage for the like a flat stone.
next round. It
came
mud minnow
I
floated
dead
at the surface
of the water, with his snout bruised and
gouged and half the It must stripped from his body.
swollen, his sides
have been some scrap!
With the end of the war the interest of members of the Essex County Aqua-
the
rium
reviving,
is
and
look
prospects
The following
bright
for the
officers
have been elected for the current
future.
year: President, Rev. B. Coltarti
;
vice-presi-
dent, F. Hoernig; treasurer, Dr. William
Bachmann Breder,
recording secretary, C.
;
Jr.
lis.
— C.
M.
BrtvDRr, Jr., Recording Sec-
retary.
One
reason
why consumers have
freely
that
is
an advertisement consti-
;
financial
secretary,
C.
M. F.
Hermes. Membership, exhibition, entertainment and publicity committees have been appointed the machinery has been set in motion for a big and prosperous year. The members were glad to welcome back to the fold the Hoernig boys, who have been wandering in other fields for more than a year. They have plans for
—
upon
tutes a reliable record of the terms
which the
con-
and buy them
fidence in advertised wares
goods to the
seller offers his
buyer.
The personal salesman may
may
or
not
represent the quality of the
truthfully
product he urges upon his customer. If he misrepresents it, and afterwards repudiates his description of
an end one Sunday when
to
was not on hand to witness the final scrap. I wish I had seen it. On Monday morning the sunfish were swimming The around with an air of triumph.
scales
79
JLitt
ises in its behalf, there
An
for the purchaser. unsubstantial.
It
or his prom-
it,
no come-back
is
oral statement
not
is
a
is
matter of
record.
The magazine advertisement tection to the buyer.
It is
able for reference;
it
is
a pro-
is
always availevi-
first-class
dence.
Buyers and
sellers alike recognize the
advantage of the printed word as a promoter of square dealing and clear understanding. The aquarist who commits himself to print in the magazine adver-
tisement
fully
is
therefore a safe
accountable,
man
and
is
to deal with.
Blood circulation in the frog is readily observed by placing the web of a hind foot under a moderate-powered microscope.
A chanchito
with a shoal of fry
as busy as a cross-eyed
boy
is
about
at a three-
ring circus.
Some men
are like musical glasses
produce their
them wet.
Even
may
finest
—to
tone you must keep
Coleridge.
the things
we
get
for nothing
cost an effort.
a fine goldfish hatchery in the nearby country, so
New
Jersey
is
now
real fish establishment near her
to
have a
metropo-
Don't brag about your goldfish
them do the
talking.
;
let