Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1900 — Longevity of Fish. [ARTICLE]

Longevity of Fish.

There aye some gold-fish In Washington which have belonged to the same famllyfor the last fifty years, nnd they seem no bigger nnd no less vivacious to-day than they did when they first catne Into the owner’s possession. A few of the fish in the Imperial Aquarium at St. Petersburg are known to be 150 years old, nnd the ngo of the sacred fish in some of the ponds nttacbed to the Buddhist temples In China is to be counted by centuries, If we are to believe the priests.