Said to be the Loveliest Living Creatures Filty times ite weight in gold may seem an impossible price for a fish, yet that was approximately the price realized a few years ago for the first pair of lion-headed gold~ fish to reach America, They were sold for £200. Nobody knows, writes David Neville, how long ago the Chinese began, by patient to transform the little olive-grey carp of their rivers to a living replica of the golden one of the eight symbols. of Buddha. It was a task that only Orientals, for whom time has no meaning, could have accomplished.
Just as they evolved the Pekingese spaniel in deliberate imita of the lion-like "Dogs of Happin" (pairs of which are 90 common a subject in Chinese porcelain), s0 they produced goldfish of a strange, grotesque beauty that at first repels and then fascinates. Bulging, telescoped eyes and strange forked fins jake them lock like that other fish in Chinesd legend which swam up the Yellow River until at inst it passed the rapids of the Dragon Gate and itself became a dragon.
was left to the Japanese to borrow the art of China and to imrove it beyond alkrecornition.
There is no living creature that for pure loveliness can surbase their veiltail, with its three or four inches of trailing, gossamer fins and tail. Whole families have worked for generations, and are still doing 50, to produce it.
The common goldfish is hardy enough and will live beneath the ice a frozen pond, but these pampered aristocrats must be nursed and tended watchfully. 'There is-a dead-ay, "contagious fungus that attacks them; and-when the tiny fry emerge from' the spawn a myriad enemies, Fork: in waiting for them—water, snails, beetles and their kind, not to] mention their own cannibal parents, Tragic Colli Jon Between Expresg and Derailed Cars: Pitiable Scenes on Line Foam Ove OWN ConsesroNvenr London, Nov. 25.
This week we have had a very tragic and very curious railway disaster, in which nine passengers were killed, two, seriously injured, Jand 90 less severely hurt, It ace curred near Notherham. Yorkshire Jand the people involved were travel~ [ting in the London, Midland and Scottish 10.10 a.m,' express from York to Bristol, Near Parkgate and Rawmarsh Station a wagon of a goods train going in the opposite direction became derailed, causing following waggons to pile up. AS the trains were passing one of the overhanging wagons crashed on to the coaches of the passenger train, ripping the last two in half. Six passengers were killed outright, two died on the way to hospital, and a third died in hospital late " the following night, Fortunately on the ripped side, was the gangway and the corridor coach; as it was nearly fall the passengers sitting in the left-hand corners were killed.
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