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...Manhattan, officials of the Aquarium announced that their electric eel will be tickled with a copper hook, stimulated into lighting a neon bulb in front of its tank, only three times a day, at 11:30 a.m., 2 p.m., 4 p.m. Said Trainer V. W. Coates: "He was glad to light his bulb at first but then he got wise to the wires and refused to shoot juice into them. Now I have to tickle him. If he's feeling right he lights two bulbs...
...record. From Susquehanna Flats to the Suisun marshes and from the Kankakee marshes to Pas a l'Outre all species of wild waterfowl had been scarce; canvasbacks, redheads, ruddy ducks, teals, gadwalls, widgeons, shovelers especially so. Everyone knew the reasons-drought, a hard winter, the disappearance of eel grass, overshooting. Not so easy was the remedy...
...object is an oyster shell containing an imperfect pearl built around the remains of an eel. If the pearl substance had been fashioned into a perfect sphere, says Mr. DeMille, the result would have been the largest, most valuable pearl in history...
...scientists and collectors" who have almost annihilated some species of birds. Dr. Clarence Cottam (U. S. Biological Survey) heightened the birdmen's concern over the decrease in North American waterfowl (see col. 3) by telling them how brant and Canada geese have suffered from the strange disappearance of eel grass during the past three years (TIME...