Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1885 — A Fish Candle. [ARTICLE]

A Fish Candle.

“Turn out the gas,” said a naturalist, “and I will show you the latest thing in light; that is,” he added, “the latest thing in that line in British Columbia. ” As the gas went out, the speaker unrolled several objects that had an “ancient and fish-like smell,” and, striking a match, touched one. A moment later a clear, yellow light appeared, issuing from what looked like the mouth of a fish, the caudal end of which was thrust into a larg, bronze cadlestick. “Yes,” said the naturalist, “it is a fish, and nothing else, no tube nor oil within, only the fisti just as it came from the water. Take this paper and read a line, and become one of the very few who can boast that they have read by the light of a dead herring.” The light was found equal to that of a candle, and reading by fish-light was an easy matter.— New York Tribune.