Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1901 — Headless and Tailess Fish. [ARTICLE]

Headless and Tailess Fish.

Near Goshen, N. Y., a few days ago a quantity of a high explosive was set off at the bottom of a 250-foot driven well' and a column of water, eight inches in diameter was thrown to a height of 300 feet. Many curious things came up from the bottom of the well, including three curious fish. They were about eight inches long, and had neither head nor tail, both ends being alike. They could swim as easily backward as forward and were not provided with eyes or mouth. There were several small orifices at eacu end of these curious fish. When they came down with a shower of stones from the top of the column of water they bounded repeatedly many feet in the air. One was captured by a Polander, who, curious to see its interior, struct it with a dull hatchet, but made no impression whatever upon the fish, although he killed it. One is still alive in captivity. The Cartie of "Bute. The young marquis of Bute, by arrangement with his father’s trustees, has resumed the restoration of Rothesay castle. He intends to have the banquet hall ready against the celebration in the summer of the fifth centenary of the “erection” of Rothesay into a royal burgh.