Good Fish Story

Conductor W. R. Hibbard. of the Ann Arbor roacl, ia known to be a very reliableman. Within the last 10 days he spent a day at Crystal Lake, which is 10 miles this side of Frankfort. He with five other gentlemen, one of whom was D. Riley, the Ann Arbor commercial agent, went out on the lake in a small steamboat. "In two hours time," says Mr. Hibhard, "we caugnt 617 perch, weighing412 pounds. Some porah welghed alinost three pounds. The greatest trouble we had in oatohing the big fellows was to get at them. The big perch lay in 30 f eet of water. Above them tLere was a great shoal of perch 8 and 10 inches long. The only way to get to the big ones was to throw out a line with a sinker as far as possible and draw in immediately and a big perch was oa the line every