Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1881 — What the Moon Does. [ARTICLE]

What the Moon Does.

'‘Professor Legate, of this city,” says the Virginia City (Nev.) Enterprise, “has been experimenting for some time for the purpose of ascertaining what effect the moon has upon fish, and the result of his investigations goes to substantiate what old fishermen have always said, namely, that it spoils them. The rays of light, or something carried in the rays, cause the fish to decay very rapidly. Even catfish, all alive and kicking when exposed, were in a bad state in a few horns. Professor Legate is a firm believer in the influence of the moon on man or all things mundane. The atmosphere being attracted by the moon the same as the waters of the ocean, only to a much greater extent, he is of the opinion that effects are produced by the aerial tide which are generally attributed to other causes. A gentleman in this city, hearing of the fish experiments, says that some years ago, while on the west coast of Africa, he one night slept on the deck of a vessel under the rays of a full moon, and the result was that he was totally blind for three days. The bad effect of the rays of the moon appears to. have been known or at least suspected ages ago. In the Bible, in Psalms, we read: ‘The sun shall not smite thee, by day, nor the moon by night.’”