Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1881 — A Bee and a Goldfish. [ARTICLE]

A Bee and a Goldfish.

Boston Journal. A certain restaurant in this elty, apparently to proclaim the unlimited resources of its culslue, has in its show window a huge tank, wherein glittering goldfish, sullen horned pouts, dignified bullfrogs and sprawling turtles dwell together in a greater or lees degree of amity. The other day a bee fell into the water and was solemnly gobbled by a goggle-eyed fish. Hardly bad the insect been engulfed, however, when the fish was seen to be strangely excited. He leaped into the air, drew in great volumes of water and blew them out again, and acted so insanely that the turtles scuttled away in hot haste, and the frogs tumbled off the rocks tn right and left in sheer consternation. Meanwhile the bee reappeared and crawled out of the tank in safety, evidently congratulating itself as it dried its wings upon its possession of a sting and the presence of mind necessary to use it to advantage in an emergency.