18 JUNE 1881, Page 12

THE UNPOPULARITY OF SALMON. [To Tux EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.")

Sfu,—In reference to this subject, it may interest you to know that in Ochs' " Gesoldchte Easels" (a comprehensive work, in; several volumes), it is related. that in the year . . (about a hundred years ago) the Legislature of Basle passed a measure whereby servant girls could not be made to eat salmon (Rhine. salmon and Lachs) more than a given number of times a week.. This fieh used to be exceedingly plentiful in the Rhine, and considering how thoroughly filled and tired. one gets of one meat of salmon only, there is nothing wonderful in this enactment.—