28 Modern Fishculture in Fresh and Salt Water. 



A Mr. Fisher picked up a 'two-horse load' of them and 

 brought them into the city, and sold them within a very 

 few hours. When cooked and brought upon the table 

 they were found to be exceedingly unpalatable, tasting 

 and smelling as though they had been thoroughly sat- 

 urated with coal tar." 



Under the head of " Sewerage Reform'' the New 

 York Tribune lately said : 



"We have had occasion now and then to comment 

 upon and to commend the action of the Connecticut 

 courts in awarding damages to persons who complained 

 that their use of brooks and rivers had been prevented 

 or impaired by the pollution of those streams with sew- 

 age. Sentences have been passed, if we remember cor- 

 rectly, upon several individuals or corporations, and 

 upon at least one municipality, for such pollution, and 

 various other concerns and places have been impelled 

 to mend their ways. All this was, as we have hitherto 

 said, exceedingly gratifying. We believe that a similar 

 spirit of self-defence on the part of aggrieved persons 

 the land over would w r ork a veritable revolution in be- 

 half of health and cleanliness. 



"But Connecticut has not been content with that. A 

 State Commission was appointed to investigate the sub- 

 ject and report thereon. It has done so, and its report 

 is instructive and suggestive. It states that all the towns 

 and cities of the State which have sewer systems, ex- 

 cepting four or five, discharge their sewage into run- 

 ning streams or tidal harbors. The results are that the 

 water is contaminated, the health of the people endan- 

 gered, fish are destroyed, ice is made unfit for use, 

 streams are made unsightly, and serious loss is inflicted 

 upon the owners of riparian lands. All that was known 

 pretty well before. It has been urged by the Tribune 



