Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1892 — A Wonder in Eggs. [ARTICLE]

A Wonder in Eggs.

The number of eggs in the mediumsized eel at the beginning of the breeding season is stated by eminent authorities on fishes and their allied creatures to be fully nine millions (9,000,000), a sum so great as to almost paralyze the intellect that tries to grapple with it. To the naked eye a single one of these life-germs is almost invisible. A strong microscope, however, shows them firmly packed together standing on their tiny ends looking not unlike the covered ceils of honey comb.