CLARKSVILLE. TENN 
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GOLD FISH. 
The Gold Pish was introduced into the United States many years atm from 
China. In recent years a superior stock has been introduced from Japan, possess- 
ing more brilliant color and of fantastic shapes. Some are red and white (pearl)- 
others of all or part of these colors and mottled with black. In shape, some are 
long and some are round bodied, some have fan-like tails; some straight tails, and 
others three-lobed tails, etc. There is nothing more attractive in a room than Gold 
Fish, and there is but little trouble in keeping them. Change the water two or 
three times a week, river or cistern water will do. and clean the globe once a week, 
heed the fish wafer crackers, a little at a time. They can be sent any distance by 
express in tin cans at buyer’s risk. We have collected a very interesting stock of 
these favorite little household pets. We will send a hind, some pair of Gold Kish 
and a large two-gallon glass globe, amply Inrge enough for a pair of onr largest 
fish, for $3.00, securely packed, by express. 
PLAIN GOLD FISH. 
Bronze, Red, Pearl and Variegated. Small young fish. 25 cents each: finely 
colored plain Gold Fish, 50 cents each. 
CHINESE MOON FISH. 
I licse are the fringed tailed Gold Fish. Superior to the ordinary Gold Kish by 
their large fringed tail of most gorgeous colors. The most graceful of all tish. 
They are rich bronze, red. pearl, black-tipped tins and variegated. 75 cents each. 
CHINESE FAN TAILS. 
These are brilliant and almost transparent tish with a most graceful tail, trian- 
gular in form, having throe lobes or. as it appears, three different tails. The most 
graceful of nil fish. $1.00 each. 
THE PARADISE FISH. 
‘ sh bas °“ ly recel,tl5 ' ,jeen introduced into the United States As the 
Bird ot Paradise is the most graceful and beautiful among the feathered tribe, so 
this may well be considered the most beautiful among the fishes. It is a native of 
toelnn China, or rather it comes from that country where it is cultivated solely 
for ornamental purposes. It is said to he found nowhere in a wild state. This 
nsh is peculiarly well adapted for aquariums requiring very little water. The 
male, winch is most brilliant in color, does not exceed, when full grown, four 
inches in length. The predominant color is bluish-green, the oilier colors arc- 
orange, red, gray and black. The large fins, (dorsal and ventral) also the tail, arc- 
very beautifully marked, especially when the sun is shining on it it seems to give 
out every imaginable color. The tail when expanded is very large in proportion 
to the size of the body. 1 he female is smaller tnan the male, and duller in color 
It is not only the brilliant coloring of the fish whic h makes them attractive -is 
house pets. One cannot fail to be struck by their strange motions when com- 
pared with other tisli and having once observed their methods of keeping house 
as it were, we cannot help admiring their wonderful instinct. The male is the ac- 
tive or working partner. When the female isahout to lay her eggs this fa indicated 
by the great activity of the male. He sets to work and builds a nest in a sec luded 
part of the aquraium, generally under some floatingleaves or some floating plants 
1 he nest is composed of an immense number of air bubbles, which is built in this 
way. The male conies to the surface, takes a mouthful of air, goes about three 
inches below the roof of the nest and then ejects the air in small hubbies which 
naturally rise until they come in contact with the leaves or floating plains lie 
repeats this process until the nest is about one-fourth of an inch thick, when it is 
completed lie guides the female to the vicinity of the nest where she deposits the 
eggs, the male then gathers the eggs in his mouth and places them among the air 
bubbles. 1 his finished, he chases the female away, for the reason she devours l lie 
