Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1894 — Fish in a Dry-Dock. [ARTICLE]

Fish in a Dry-Dock.

Hundreds of German silver carp were discovered in the bottom of the League Island Navy Yard’s dry-dock last week after the floating out of the ship Richmond. Over a thousand pounds of these fish were given away by the officers in charge, and at least a thousand pounds were left without takers. Some time ago a breeding pool was established within the Navy Yard grounds, and since then the fish have multiplied with astonishing rapidity. The Delaware River front, between League Island and Port Richmond, especially in the vicinity of the sugar refineries, is alive with the fish, which are caught in trans and nets by the bushel. They retail alive at cents per pound.—[Phllu. delphia Record. THE FATUOUS BURGLAR. “I know,” said Mrs. Bobbin, ‘‘that there is a burglar in the house I” ‘‘How do you know?” “I heard a rasping noise in the kitchen just now.” “Well, we’ll let him alone. Maybe he’s working out his own destruc tion. It sounds to me as if he were cutting himself a slice of that pie.” —[Washington Star.