The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1902-10-24

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A dove once lived twenty-five years in a cage.
Europe has. $4,000 births and $4,000 deaths daily.
Crowd was the old English name for a fiddle II violin.
Berlin. Berne and Rome will be connected by telephone
Carp ar said o I've hundreds of years. and pike re also hardy old
Quarantine was first established against infectious diseases in the tenth
II you take the salt out of sea water you deprive it of onstniraeA o. its
The mb@Obe of consumption has been known to remain alive N a book
There arr $40 newspapers in japan. Thirty year. ago there we're only
The hardest Of ali metals is iridium, used to tip gold pens It costs about
New England makes nearly GO per cent of the boots and shoes made
The fisherman catches the torrapn with a pair of tonga or the eastern
During the South African war 1000 Germans re said to have fought
against the British
Some 1000 discoveries Of Illicit sans we're made in Ireland during the
year ending March, 1901.
Japana first statue in memory of a woman was unveiled recently at
shioNawate, near Kioto
Owing to the fail Of the campanne the pigeons of Venice have flown away
over 80 per cent of the abiebodied white population N Rhodeaa served in
the various operations Of the war
Experiments are being made to the end that the tedious washing of pho
tographic plates may be unnecessary
United States Consul Daniel s. Kdder reports that there is a good field
for the automobile trade in Algiers
Since 1879 France has spent s12OOooOoO on canals Plans are IN hand
for spending another 2 millions in the same way.
obsolete stamps and postcards to the value of s1lOoOOoo have just been
destroyed in Berlin by order o. the German postal authorities
corea has been swinded out If millions OF dollars by eighty fraudulent
taxgathe@s. Sixty Of these have been caught and put ito death
Robinson Crusoe" was the first novel with illustrations wei published.
This was in August lno. The illustration was a map Of the world.
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The existence Of large coal mines in the district of Antwerp in Belgium.
has now been proved coal having been reached a the depth Of 900 feet
After eating every green thing in the neighborhood svarms # loous.s
have taken complete possession of all the houses y two Algerian villages
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Australia has the largest duck farm and the largest incubator in tn.
There is being erected IN the little island Of Juan Fernando home Of
Robinson Crusoe. a large building for the preserving Of fish. Holsters and
nsasnys say: ... -aa illus, /. ., the power E.. = man ma a has as TO- r ass. his .s4 own a. re-.
S sGGiss's his IT fire. Is t srH nn' mat enables a mar . ne IN ''' "nn' '0"''H' else
Ger. ssaoaa eoa@aaans The Rome me, garrison, .r.. has retired eighteen oHess.
providing for such articles being worn.
A fox is dainty al well as crafty and prefers the tongues o lambs for
out their tongues. which he then tears on and eats.
The s s%s Of a% IaRe 1P Huron oi is is sSaoo s aaaaro i miles y It's s'% Hrsose i. S%s So oysP i l0o
square miles. Tough Erne. in ireland. has $50 islands.
A new and secret system of automatic anueonison signals has just been
iasctory The plan is to be adopted o the swiss railways
American customs are beginning to carry weight with the pripnos NOR.
actually giving up tobacco because Americana women no smoke ~' -
Physicians who have been making strong efforts to redeem those districts
have gone back to a wholesale dosing Of the infected population with quinine.
The "Neue FreIe Presse" cven MAJ states that the Morgan Shipping
Trust has addressed a letter to the Austrian council of Industry, in which it
offers to build ships for the Austrian trade and to work the ships when built
There is a movement in Paris to erect monument o. the battlefield Of
Crccy to the blind King John of Bohemia, who was killed while fighting Oh the
side of the French, and whose cesth has ever since been known as The Prince
Of Wales feathers"
A gigantic saw fish was recently caught in the Carimaa Straits not far
from Singapore. by the steamship New Guinea It was p feet in length. and
the saw, which has been presented to the Melbourne Museum was ~ feet
long 1 foot in width.
The Manitoba crop bulletin gives the areas under the different crops as
follows; Wheat 2O3994O acres; oats 725O6O acres; barley, 329790 acres;
nx, n2OO acres. The figures show a total increase in the area under grain
crops Of 223149 acres
It Is calculated that no fewer than 1902 persons committed suicide by
throwing themselves of the beny Of St. Marks, Venice, which caused a sen.
sauon recently by its fall The last case happened IN 1888, after which the
windows and gallery were protected
Admiral Borresen and Commander Rosenguist Of the Norwegian navy,
have both been sentenced by courtmartial to twenty days Imprisonment and
q fine Of ESQ for having shown negligence In recent naval maneuvers, where
By the ironclad Eidsv0d went ashore