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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (March 9, 1907)
THE MORNING ASTOR AN, ASTORIA, OREGON. QUEER FINDS III FISH, ( The Stomach of a Cod Is Somo J times a Sort of Museum. 11 in 191 A GLUTTON, NOT AN EPICURE SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1907 All Manny of Odd Thing Art Eagerly Devoured by Thli Voraoloue Feeder. The Singular Advantura af a Tan Dallar Qold Plea. On day la 1003 A. B. Ur; of Naw York felt tho piscatorial fever surging through hla aystein, ao took a day off ud went out to tba (lulling banka to try bla luck. Ai b waa dressing bis eaten Uiat aanw evonlog b discovered In tba etouiach of a cod a tea dollnr gold piece, wttit two dlauionua set on One aid and tbo Initials r. C. E. ou tba Otber. Levy waa ao anmaed that ba lent tha story to tbe napora, and It waa copl1 throughout tba country, Ifa bardly eipectad aver to bear from ' It, but a few week later waa surprised to rwelv a letter from Patrick 0. Ev. aa, residing -lu Kanaae, wbo claimed tbe piece na bin own and presented auf flclont evidence of tula to satisfy Levy, who accordingly turned It over to blm. It eeema that Kvana waa la New York earlier tu the.yoar and spent a day blackoiriiuig In tbe lower bay, aud as ba waa hauling In a (lab Ui chain to which tbo coin waa attached got caught In tbe rigging of Die sloop, which Just then rolled, tba chain auapped, and away went the coin, never to be recov ered, aa be then etipposud. Ono 4 of the eaddoat fliuU recorded waa Unit of Kt. John's (N. F.) fisher man, wbo dlm-overed a wedding ring Id tbe entrails of a cod Id 1871. It wni eventually proved to havo belonged to Pauline Huninm, an Englishwoman wbo waa lout In tbo ateauiahlp Anglo Ha inn, wrecked off Ounce Cove, X. F tu Hie lucky tiahortnuii received present of LM for restoring the blub ly prUed memento to the woiuuu'a aou, A Havre Aanermau'a wife, drying codfish caught by her husband on the count of Frame lu ItMH, noticed that one Onli bad a bnrd substance Inside. On Investigation he found In'tbe flsh a golden bmcclct. llow the ornament enme Into Ita atrutige receptacle la, of courae, not known, but It la conjec tured that It mint have lip pel from tho wrlat of eoiue fair passenger lean ing over the bulwarka of u (ransutlan tic liner and bwn seined liy the cod. Last year the greater part of the male and part of the feiualo population of the vlllnge of IVtlalicnd, nt the mouth of the Avon, In England, turn ed anglefa for awhile. Plaiting tackle and bait boomed for aoine time, and nil hecau one of tha local niiglura shortly tiefore had landed a good elzed HhIi, and when It came to be dissected on the domestic table It wna found to 'Include" a diamond ring declared to be worth f ISO. While dlacbarglng a fare of codfish from the acboouer Vlnnle if. Otchell at Gloucester, Mans., In 1S.SU, Captain John M. Oi'tchcll, master of the venae), found linlwdded In the thick flesh of a largo cod a knlfo of curlou workman ahlp. Tlie flub waa caught on the northeast part of (ieorgo'a bank Id seventy-five fathoms of water and wna 0iparcntly healthy. Tho knife waa not found until aomo time after the flub bnd been cured. When found tbe knife blade waa cloned, ami the Hinall Or posterior end or the handle wna nearest tho tall of tho flnh, the flesh at thla place being about two nnd half Incbea thick. The knlfo when cloned waa three and flviV.dghth lnchea loug. Ia 18&1 Captain McEacberu of tbe Gloucester acboouer A. P. Olfford found n knlfe-ouo of tho kind known to fiNhcrmcii na n baddock rlppcr-Iii ttbe atomacb of n forty-flvo pound cod rhlch bnd teen caught on the I.e Have bunk. i Lara Petersen, nn able aenman of the steamship Hypatla, which arrived In New York lu 11R)3 from 8t. Lucia, mndo u curious And on tho voyage. After the veaael left St. Lucia a large grny shark wiib wen following It. For two dnya It continued In the wnke of tho ahlp, when Petersen resolved to get it. Procuring a large book, bo halt ed It with Halt pork and after aomo dllllculty landed the moiiHter, which measured iilinoBt twelvo feet from tip to tip. Upon opening Its atomnch Pe tersen discovered there a ring with tho lultlala L. II. B. engraved on the In side. Owing to tbo fact thnt cod neck their food on tho bottom and are voracious feeder, their stomachs when opened frequently present a curious and some times amusing collection of odds and" ends. lilts of leather, mnrllno spikes, CURES A COLD IN ONE DAY PREVENTS THE GRIP Similarly named remedies sometimes deceive, Tha first and original Cold Tablet U a WHITE PACKAOB with black end red tattering, and bears the signature of There is only one j 1 "Bromo Quinine" J pails j (latiyeJBromo Q Ufie 495 Commercial Iron bolts, a ball of twine, leaden sounding plummets, hoofs of deer, scis sors, brass, oil cans, potato parings, corncobs, tbe bead of a rubber doll, stones and big shells have been found In them. A codfish caught nt Vineyard Haven waa found to have In Its stom ach two full grown ducks. When taken out they were quite fresh, hav ing most of tbelr feathers on. 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