1878
Says an exchange: Our old friend, Dr. S. Haly, has exhibited to us a lock of hair cut from his boy's head when eighteen months old, and since carefully wrapped up, marked and laid away in the family Bible. At that time the lock was two inches long. Now it is fully six inches, and seems to be still growing with all its old-time lustre, fineness and beauty preserved. The son is alive and sixteen years old. The Doctor assures us there can be no mistake as to the identity of the hair, and wants an explanation. We know the hair and nails of corpses are known to flourish for a while, but these have whereupon to feed. This lock of hair had not.
A Strange Fish
One day last week, after a hard struggle, George Whitney captured on Cockenoes bar off Norwalk, a fish seldom seen in these parts. It answered the description given by ichthyologists of the goose fish or angler, also known as the fishing frog. It was four or five feet long, nearly as broad, flat, had one flap on each side something like a scale with an opening or pocket behind running forward under the mouth, and two small legs with five toes webbed together. The strangest feature, however, was its immense mortar-shaped mouth. When open it was frightful to contemplate, and would just about comfortably take in an ordinary keg. It was on exhibition for several days. It is a worthless fish and lives on muddy bottoms. — New Haven Palladium.
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