Word: fish
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...feigned resemblance to an animal of a different and often dangerous kind, or by an appearance of being wounded and therefore useless to an enemy. Pictures were shown of hermit-crabs, which attached to themselves sea-anemonies for the purpose of self-defence, the anemonies being offensive to hostile fishes. One picture represented a deep-sea fish which attracts its prey by a lure in the shape of a phosphorescent light; another showed a snap-turtle which lies for hours with its mouth open and entices small fish by means of filaments on its tongue which look like worms...
...collection of fish in the Stanford University Museum has recently had added to it a specimen of lampris guttatus, or moonfish, of the dolphin family. These fish are very rarely secured as specimens although in the waters about Madeira they are tolerably numerous. The reason why they are so difficult to secure is because their habits are pelagic and they appear only singly near the coasts. As they are from four to six feet long and large in proportion, they cannot be caught by ordinary means, and so escape. The above specimen came from Monterey Bay. The National Museum...
...Fish to Hughes, Lower Mass...
...football season. For breakfast there is, besides these, oatmeal, cracked wheat, and hominy, with plenty of cream and sugar, beefsteak, mutton chops, broiled chicken and eggs. For lunch, cereals are served again and the same meats as at breakfast, with baked, stewed or boiled potatoes. Several kinds of fish are allowed, but are little cared...
...Fish, M E, 14 Chapel sreet, West Somerville