Juniata Sentinel And Republican

We copy from Appleton's Journal the following note on subterranean fishes in California. We give it to our readers in the confidence that it would not have received the indorsement of that journal until its truth was verified by reliable evidence : It appears that the agent of the California Petroleum Company, at San Buenaventura, wanting water to supply the company's wharf at that point, determined to sink an artesian well on the sea-beach, not five feet from the high-water mark. At the depth of one hundred and forty-six feet a strong flow of water was obtained, which spouted to the height of thirty feet. Soon after, the attention of the agent, Mr. Bard, was directed to the fish with which the waste water from the well abounded, and which, on examination, proved to be young trout. "thousands of them being thrown out at every jet." They were all of the same size, about two inches in length, and were perfectly developed, the eyes being also perfect. As the temperature of the water, as it comes from the well, is 61° Fahr., the fish must have entered it but a brief time before their expulsion, since they could not have lived long in such high temperature, and yet the nearest surface-stream was several miles distant.