Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1894 — Quite “Fishy.” [ARTICLE]

Quite “Fishy.”

In the museum at Mannheim ther< was a skeleton of a pike that measured nineteen feet, and had a round it with this inscription in Greek:. “I am the fish which was cast into the lake by the hands of the Governor of the Universe, Frederick 11, the sth October, 1230." The fish, having been caught in 1407, was 267 years old. Miss Flora Kimball selected tht trees and superintended the planting of them on spven miles of the street* of Nat onal City, Col. She was requested to undertake the work bj tho Supervisor, who deemed her tht most competent person for the place.