Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1876 — The Voracity of Fish. [ARTICLE]

The Voracity of Fish.

A correspondent of the Scitnlific American , writing from Rockingham, N. f)., relates the following very fishy rjjory: “In your issae of June 24, yon gi ye os A engrayjug of fish books, etc., found in the stomach of a cod, hy Mr. Frank Rack land. Some of <W southern streams contain voracious fish. An acquaintance of mine caught a catfish in a lake pn the Arkansas River, near Little

Rock, sonic few years since, from the stomach of which was taken the larger part of an ox. liver, twenty-three hen’s eggs, three puppies, and a child’s shoe. Whether the fish had swolowod the child whole, and it had been digested by the juices of the cat-fish's stomach, and the shoe alone remained to tell the child’s sad fate, or whether the child escaped the jaws of the voracious fish, losing only its shoe in the rencontre, tho evidence was not sufficiently clear to determine. But that the above enumerated articles were found in its stomach is undeniable; and I think this is enough to establish the fact that the catfish is also a voracious fish.”