Durango semi-weekly herald., 1904-07-14
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

ne DUKE oil sutherland, VINO Is now
touring in Canada is said to be the
largest landhoder in the British Isl.
ands, owning 1855 900 acres.
a Minneapolis investigator reports
what may surprise some people that
the milling Industry is the third larg.
est in the country.
Parts of the wreck of the Sirius. the
first steam vessel to cross the Allan
tic. which was lost off Ballycotton.
County Cork, in ls47, have just been
recovered
The region near the Persian gulf Is
the hottest on earth. the mean annual
temperature there being II degrees
higher than in Death Valley, Cal The
inhabitants are stunted, mentally and
physically.
The entire sophomore class of the
University of Vermont has been plac-
ed on probation as result OF kidnap-
ping, when two freshmen were detain-
ed from a class banquet.
American residents of London pro.
pose to honor the memory OF John
Harvard. founder of the famous Massa-
chusetts college. by a window in ST.
Savior's church, Southwark. where he
was born.
An attempt is being made in Vienna
to persuade servants to pay 20 cents
II month toward an old.age insurance,
but after three years OF work the sum
needed to start the enterprise has not
been secured.
Ia 10
church in the village OF st Lawrence.
on the Isle of Wight. was the smallest
church in existence. 1t was built al
most 500 years ago. 1t was 25 feet
long. seven feet high and IL feet
broad. 1t held only II people.
n. w Mcleod OF St Louis was a
temporary receiver of the Kirby Lum.
ber company OF Texas for 40 days. and
he values his services at the modest
sum of s25, 900 The master in chan
Gerry is considering the matter.
Frontera, Mex, is to have million
dollar plant for building steel. iron
and wooden vessels for river and
ocean navigation. A complete outfit OF
machinery and tools has been order
'Al lllt NAUii'i soNhi'os
University Place. few miles east
of Lincoln Neb., Is the only town in
the state where tobacco Is not sold.
Not only are liquor. billiard tables.
dance halls. saloons and every other
form of questionable" amusements
barred from this town, but now the
cigar store and the cigarette counter
Ia a.lh "a h.. T.rn II "a
list
Birmingham England. has u mint
which in addition to turning out mil
lions of English coins does more In the
way of supplying foreign governments
with coin than any other money-mak-
ing establishment In the world. A
few days ago 1t shipped the first In
stallment Of huge Egyptian order
for 10 million piasters.
The statistics of "a operations for
the bloodless replacement OF congen'
italy dislocated hips performed by
DR. Lorenl and himself are reported
by DR. Ridlon OF Chicago. In but 10
cases does the anatomical replace
mcnt seem TO he perfect; in Gl cases
there are good results" and II were
complete failures The others are
still in spllnts, and. therefore. have
moi yet been photographed.
The prince of Montenegro has nc
use for libel laws TO restrain the news
papers. and editors are not punished
for contempt of court. This does not
arise so much from the liberallty OF
the rulers principle as from the faci
that he is himself the owner and ed
itor OF the only newspaper published
| In his domain. The paper is called
Glas Cznogorca. which is interpreted
10 mean THE Voice OF the Montene
| grin"
Experiments conducted by the agri
| cultural department of the Unlversit,
Of Missouri have demonstrated tina
! the diseased chinch bugs sent out b,
| the United States department of agri
culture to kill the chinch bugs by in
| fection are entirely ineffective, Th'
| dlsesaed bugs not only do not trans
| fer their disease to the healthy bugs
but soon after liberation recover an,
do as much damage as the others.