Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1893 — Remarkable Tenacity of Life. [ARTICLE]

Remarkable Tenacity of Life.

The pious Doctor Shirely Palmer tells a fish stoty that is oalculatcd to muke the members of the St. Louis Hunting and Fishing Association (to use a strictly original expression), “turn green with envy." By some hook or crook, hook no uoubt, Mr. Palmer came into possession of a’flnc brace of tench. Thoy were a lively pair of finny beauties when the Doctor took them home with the idea ol slaughtering them for his Sunday dinner. Placing them in a pail of water he pul them into the larder and thought no more about, the matter. That night at midnight he was aroused, so he says, by a groan proceeding from the aforesaid larder. Inspection of the room explained the mystery. One of the fish hod sprung from the basin or pail and lay gasping upon the floor, every now nnd then uttering sounds similar to those which had disturbed Mr. Palmer. Next day both fish were prepared for dinner, but such were their tenacity of life that both, after having undergone the process of scaling and evisceration, Sprang from the pan and wriggled about on the floor us though they had but recently been re- • moved from their native element. The above is told as a scientific fact, not as a “fish story.” or in the way of a joke.—[St. Louis llepublic.