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...liver, when pressed under heat, exudes oil of great medicinal worth. And his tongue is a Parisian delicacy. Cod?a big creature?is partial to olive-green covering and is distinguished by a subtle beard at the tip of the lower jaw. The cod catch on the Newfoundland coast has not been seriously diminished...
Consider the salmon. He. ranks fourth?next to mackerel, a high-seas fish?and would by this time have been driven from the Atlantic Coast except for artificial propagation. For the salmon must come to life in a trough excavated by his parent in the gravelly bed of a river. Thence he makes his way to the ocean and returns, steel blue, to increase his tribe. If estuaries are foul and filled with commerce, the salmon expires...
Died. Admiral Sir Frederick C. Doveton Sturdee, 66, in command of the victorious British fleet at the Battle of the Falkland Islands in November, 1914, where he sank the German cruisers Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Leipzig, Nürnberg which had previously defeated a British squadron at Coronel, off the coast of Chile; in Camberley, Surrey, England, of inflammation of the brain...
...Pawnee had been seeking the rhynodontypicus, a species of leviathan taken near Swan Island in 1912. Among the tales the mariners told was that of a .vast elemental shape the Negroes called "Sapodilla Tom," which surged up beneath the boat, lifted his dorsal and was gone. Off the coast of Honduras, "a great winged, batlike monster" had escaped...
After 31 weeks of tour, performances in 100 cities through Canada, the Pacific Coast, East, South, Middle West, the San Carlo Opera Company ended its season with a presentation of Aïda in Newark, N. J. For next year, Director Gallo, whose name is Fortune, announced presentations in English of Faust, Hansel and Gretel, promised at least one opera in English in each weekly engagement. In June, he goes to Europe to gather new stars, new stimulus...