People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1896 — An Electrical Fish. [ARTICLE]

An Electrical Fish.

Among the fish which are capable of giving severe electrical shock the torpedo, or electric ray, a member of the skate tribe, stands out prominently. This fish has a couple of complex batteries lodged in the sides of its head parts, and the discharge of these organs is fraught with dire effects to the animals which may chance to come in the way of this living magazine. The electricity is generated by the nervous system; that is # to say, so much nerve force when passed through or into the electrical organ is converted into electricity. A scientist lit up several small electric lamps by the discharge from the fish. (hid Minute Cough Cure touc'ies the right spot. It also touches it at the right tin e if you take it when you have a roi or i olu. bee the point? Then « 7 o t pough. A. F. 1 ong, Druggist.