Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-02-12
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 Singing in the opera and eultiyating farm are about as widely different from each other as two occupations can well be. Perhaps this is the very req son why Mademoiselle CalYe, the great pfima donna, retires eyeery summer to spend her vacation on farm among the Cevennes, a chain of mountains in southern France. The famous singer, says the Philadelphia Post, was very i'll and nervous when she went to the Cevennes, but fuls free, open air life and vigorous exercise soon restored her to the most robust health, and when friends asked her the secret of her cure, she answers, Spades and pota- toes" Last summer she went into her kitchen garden and cared for her own vegetables. No one was allowed to touch them, and the results were far better than when her gardener cared for the things. Mademoiselle Galye wore a short skirt of blue jeans, sabets. and linen shirtwaist. She spaded and hood and watered her vegetables day after day. and proudly sent gifts of the finest fruits of her labors to friends in Paris-
 Bad for Scotch salmon FisherieA
 This has been bad year for the Ealmon fisheries of Scotland In fact for several years they have just been going from bad to worse. h 1885 they were fairly fenunerative. That year 25.3e4 boxes were sent to Billingsgate Gondon) but ever since then the duan tity has gradually declined The fol lowing year, 1896. only z, 435 boxes were sent, in 1897 still less. 16.284 boxes. ard last year, 1898, the total consignment was only 14,f74 boxes As the average for the eighteen year2 from 1879 was z, ,161 boxes, the de crease af last year is close on 5000 But It is to be remembered that the whole harvest of Scottish salmon does net now, as formerly, go to London 4 considerable portion of it is now sent to other places. The returns of rail way and shipping companies are prob ably the most complete, but even these only show 1.717 tons forwarded last year. against 2,794 tons in 1897.
 .spectacsed' Animals.
 Birds are furnished with a peculiar membrane, which in a state of repose lies in the inner angle of the eye, but is movable by two distinct muscles, which draw it over the eornea. It is, to certain extent transpa for, &C., cording to Cuyier, birds can look through it, as the eagle does when looking at the sun This membrane forms a pair of spectaeles or, at least, answers the same purpose. This mem- brane is called the third eyelid One Of the most comica1 and grotesque an imals is the "spectacled bear" tUrsus ornatus), which derives it's chief at- traction from the light-colored rings around it's eyes. These-the greater part of the face being, like the body, blaek-haye exactly the appearance of a pair of common goggles" through which the beast seems to look with an air of mingled wisdom and imbeeility. The spectacled bear is only found in the mountainous regions of Chilli, South America
 New York World: John spline. an employe of the Standard Oil company, of this city, met with peculiar aecl- dent. Spline was taken with fit Of sneezing, and SC violent were his ef- forts that he dislocated his right shoul-' der. It took the combined strength of two physicians to reset the dislodged joint.