Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-10-12
Busy Animals.


 ne $ nothing more nor less than a thief. Fat ducks and chickens are his delight and plump rabbit comes next best.
 The otter and the heron are fisher men. The otter is not often seen. for he carries on his work mostly under the water, but the heron stands with his long, thin legs in the water wait Ing t1lt fish comes by. Then a sud den plunge with his long, sharp b4ll and the poor fish is brought up and swallowed.
 The ants are the busiest of all. Catch an ant asleep in the daytime if you can, They are always in earnest at their work, building their underground homes and laying up stores of food for the long winter.
 The swallow is fly catcher, and skins low over the surface of the little streams. It takes a great many flies to fefd him for just one day, and he is forever at work.
 The beaver is a wood cutter, a build CT anu 8 mason. It cuts down the small trees with it's teeth, and. after it has built it's house, it plasters it with it's tail.
 The snail, too, is builder, but 1t takes the material for it's house from its own body. It is so anxious to begin work that it commences to build it's house before it is even matched
 The mole that burrows under the ground makes a little fort under the earth from which it tunnels in every direction, and it makes such clever paths that it can run from one to the other and can scarcely be caught.
 The ''0es do not all live in hives or tree trunks. The mason bee digs a hole in brick wall and lines it with clay. Tn this nest it lays two eggs and closes it up. The miner bee bores long holes in the sandbanks and the car. penter bees bore their tunnels in wood The upholsterer bee lines his nest with poppy leaves. The rose leaf cutter takes leaf between its jaws, begins near the stalk and cuts out a circle of just the right size and as perfect as as could be marked with & compass. With these circles of fragrant rose leaf it divides its round hole in the wall into little cells,
 newspaper for Beggars.
 One of the queerest newspapers pub lished in Paris is daily journal, got up especially for beggars. The mendi- cants of Paris have their labor union, and labor dues in the same way as an trade. Only a limited num- Der of hektograph copies of the jour- nal are issued, and these are distribut- ed among the various district head quarters of the metropolis. It con- tains tips for all sorts of mendicants. There are complete lists of the bap- tisms, weddings and funerals to take place each day, so that the beggar knows where to go if he wants to ply his trade successfully. For the adyan- tage of begging letter writers, spe- cial column is set apart for noting the arrivals and departures of per- sons of known charitable tendencies. If the philanthropist millionaire should be surprised on returning to Paris that nleas for assistance at once begin to hour in upon him, he will be able to ascribe this phenomenon to the kind offices of the Beggars' Journal.
 Made g Record at School.
 During the last term Centralia, Mo, sehoolboy, Levin Tomlinson,aged 16 years, was never tardy and never missed a day. His home is seven miles from the schoolhouse, and eom- ing and going he travelled fourteen miles each day, which during the school term makes 2,900 miles trav- eled During the winter he arose at 3. 30 every morning, fed the stock and performed the chores, then started for school. He made a grade of 100 in denortment, which means perfect, and Q grade of 98 in application.
 Deserted Capitals in India.
 A remarkable feature of India is he number of deserted capitals. There are no less than three old Delhis, all close to each other and south of the present city.