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MANY QUEER FISH IN THE TANK A fine collection of fish from Atlantic City has been received at the Fairmount Park Aquarium at Philadelphia Many of them will delight the Jersey coast angler for among the collection are some beautful specimens of familiar sportsmens fish Then is for example a pair of channel bass or red drum that will easily tip the scales at fifty pounds each Tluro is a tenpound striped bass a sixpound tautog and some exceedingly large croakers croakersThen Then here are a lot of freak fishes a big tank full of burr fishes another of balloon and still another of old wenches a black and gold colored fish that looks as though it were in the last stages of starvation and which comes to the surface and squirts water from its little prisms and prune mouth at any person that peers in from the top There arc also skates pompanos moon fishes flounders ling congers lady and blue crabs and other creatures that get on the hooks from time to time
