A MAXIKUCKEE WONDER.  

Fish With Name Larger Than Itself

Caught in Popular Lake.

A pamphlet published from the government printing office, entitled ''Descriptions of Two New Species of Darters from Lake Maxinkuckee, Indiana," says the New York Herald, is adorned with pictures of the fishes.

These are about as large as a man's finger, and were caught not in the lake, but in a little brook that runs into it, and the text merely claims that the species appears to be new.

The paper is by Barton Warren Evermann, ichthyologist of the United States Fish Commission, and in fact, is a portion of the recently issued annual report of that body, which for some reason is considered of sufficient importance to be thus reprinted and circ ulated under separate covers.

One of these tiny fishes is labeled "Hadropterus Maxinkuckiensis" — and the other "Etheastoma Aubeenaubei."

It is painful to think of the generations of Indiana boys who with bent pins yanked the "shiners" out of that little brook and who lived and died in ignorance of what they had caught.

A good part of the pamphlet is occupied with very ingenious theorizing as to whence came the ancestors of the _ darters and how they happened to colonize in the brook.

In fact, the work recalls the great paper communicated to the Pickwick Club by its immortal founder and entitled "Speculations on the Source of the Hampstead Ponds, with Some Observations on the Theory of Tittlebats."

Logansport Pharos Tribune Sep 4, 1900