Mesa free press., 1900-08-10
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A million dollars for strawberries is
The record this season for Charlotte On.
e. shippers.
Chin-Tan-Sun, the Chinese Croesus of
San Francisco, Owls gold mine and a
multitude of fruit canneries.
A satirlst is man who discovers
things about himself and then says
them about someone else.-Life.
The pronunciation of Mafeking is
difficulty to many. The name is cor
sectly pronounced like Maffy-king-
with the accent on the first syllable.
The Adirondack Mountains embrace
an area of over 100000 acres, and in
this great area fully 800 mountain
peaks rise to attitudes ranging from
/, 200 to 5000 feet.
The Columbia University has decided
to confer the honorary degree of LII. d.
upon Lord Pauncefote, the British en-
bassador to the United States, and also
upon Princess Aribert of Anhalt.
In the experiments which have been
carried on in South Africa with wire
less telegraphy it was found that the
vibration caused by the firing of heavy
guns had no effect on the system.
A military company stationed at
Tunis recently captured 5000 sparrow
eggs, which the regiment cook mixed
with many pounds OF other ingredients
and made into an omelet nearly seven
feet in circumference.
Gov. Nash, of Ohio, has appointed +.
M. Marriott, of that State, who is six
years old, superintendent of squirrels.
officer will be the wearing of blue
uniform with big brass buttons on it.
Alfred Belt, the South African mil
lionaire, has just bought Sir Joshua
Reynolds famous picture of Lady
Cockburn, over which there was long
lawsuit in London between the Nation
al Gallery and the Hamilton family, for
$4,000.
The latest labor-saving contrivance is
said to be an electric collection box. No
collectors are required, for as soon as
the clergyman has touched button in
the pulpit the box runs along wires
from pew to pew, and the congregation
do the rest.
Former Congressman Myron H. Nc
Cord, Of Wisconsin, for several years a
resident of Arizona, who resigned the
Governorship Of that Territory to enter
the volunteer service in the war with
Spain, is now editor Of the Arizona Ga
zette, printed at Phenix.
Gen. Marcus p. KILLER drove into a
barn near Great Darlington, Mass,
during a thunderstorm. While he was
there lightning struck the barn, killing
two COWS and stunning a farm hand
with whom he was talking, but passing
over the veteran warrior.
While the Egyptian children no doubt
had as great regard for cats as the chill
dren Of to-day, the parents had still
higher regard, rising into worship. So
great was this regard that the cat came
to be looked upon as sacred, and cat
worship became part Of the religion
of the race.
Father Patrick O'Connell, who was
ordained in Cleveland recently, achiev-
ed success in another profession before
he made up his mind to study for the
priesthood. He was city engineer OF
Lansing, Mich, when he abandoned
civil engineering to devote his life to
the service Of the church. He served
two terms as city engineer.
! Ex-President Zaldwar, of Salvador
who recently came to Washington as
minister Of that country, says the peo.
pie down there want an interoceaniC
canal as badly as the United States
and they prefer the Nicaragu route be-
cause it would give Salvador an Allan,
tic port for it's markets, something
which it has not at present.
Up to the present time land in Siberia
can be acquired only by farmers and
settlers. During the last two years a
large number of concessions for the
purchase of land have been asked fol
by merchants, engineers and manufac
turers, and the Russian ministry is now
considering the question of making q
change in the present system.
1t used to be supposed that perfect
sapphire must be of a dark, rich, blue
tint. Now the discovery Of a new sap
phire mine in the Rocky Mountains
where stones were found varying in
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