Secrets Treacherously Exposed

We have it at last. It lias been kept a profound secret, wrapped in the deepest mystery, and it has been only by the most persistent work, coupled with everlasting vigilance and blood-curdling threats that the Argus is now able to disclose to its readers this ?reat secret. lts about those fish - those fish that have been caught in the waterworks reservoir. There have been many explanations of the manner in which these innocent members of the finny tribe ever got in there. A gentleman was giving his idea of it, that people who were opposed to the present company had been known to catch minnows in the river, carry them up the long, steep hill and dump them into the reservoir, just to give people some reason to '"kick" against the waterworks when they saw fish coming out of the hydrants. Nobody listened with more interest to this explanation than a certain attorney who is also a stockholder in the Water Co., and has made the presence of fish in reservoirs, etc., a subject of special research. "My dear Judge," he said, "you are en tirely mistaken in your conclusions I have been studying this thing from beginning to end and after reading all that the Encyclopedia Britannica has to say on the subject, I find that minnows ars often found in such places and their presence there is accounted for by scientists in the following way. Birds walk around on the banks of rivers and wade in the 'water, and then flying to the reservoir the birds carry the fish spawn on their feet and - " Bang! bang! went the doors of the office with a forcé which shook the entire opera house block and the "Judge" and the Argus representative, struck squarely with the full depth, breadth and thickaess of this wonderful explanation, were hurled to the street below.