Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-12-17

charity Of strangers. their convivial meet
inss on Sunday and dancing to bagpipes,
which are usually attended with quarrel
ing.
France?
A. A fountain near Grenoble emits a
flame which will burn paper, straw, ETC..
but will not burn gunpowder. Within
about eight leagues of the same place is
an Inaccessible mountain in the form of a
pyramid reversed.
@. What curiosities are there in Portu-
A There are lakes into which stone
being cast causes rumbling like the
noise of an earthquake.
.. What do you observe Of the inhabi-
tants of Guinea?
A. They are chiefly pagans and idola-
ters In Ego. where, the people are
governed by king who is not absolute
waits on him and informs him that it is
fauguing for him to bear the burden of
government any longer. advising him to
take little rest. TIE thanks them and
retires to his apartment as if to sieep
and directs his women to strangle him;
and after he expires they destroy ali
things which belonged to him or to them
selves, and then kill one another His son
same terms.
Q. Give concise description of the
Giages and Annians.
A. The first inhabit a part of the Con-
go coast: the latter live in the Macao.
The people are cannibals. They kill and
eat their first born children: and their
tions. The king of Macaco, resides in
Monsol. where there is a market in which
human flesh is sold, although other meat
exists in plenty. They esteem it a luxury
slaves are daily killed for the kings table
Q: What is the characteristic of the
HOttCntOts?
A. They are the most abject of the hu-
with SCOT and grease, live upon carrion,
old leather. shoes and everything of the
most lOathsome kind: dress themselves in
sleeps skin, untanned, turning the wool
to their flesh. in the winter. and the other
side in the summer. Their dress serves
them for bed at night. for covering by
day, and for winding sheet when they
die.
One geography that had a marked in
dividuality of its own was thick little
volume, mostly in verse entitled The
; mington in 1904. In the prose portion of
the book are several curious paradoXes.
Here is one of them:
Three men went on journey. in
which. though their heads travelled twelve
yards further than their feet al! returned
alive, with their heads on
The solution explains that IF any per
son should travel h rGund the GLOBE the
that his feet travelled by about the num-
Der of yards mentioned.
Cummings Geogra ply. 1914. apologies
| in its preface for adding another TO the
number of biographies, already SO great
as to obStruct rather than promote i'm
provement." During the previous decade
Lewis and Clark had made their journey
across the continent. and we now find
mention of the STONY Mountains. 1t
was number of years before the name
Rocky was substituted for Stony. Con-
corning the Andes in South America. we
are told: ''These amazing mountains in
comparison with which the Alps are but
little hills have assures in some places a
| mile wide, and deep in proportion; and
there are others that run under ground,
and resemble in extent a province
Adams Geography; ISIS. is divided into
three parts. The following is from Part
IL:
"A mountain is a vast protuberance of
the earth.
The White mountains are the highest.
not only in New Hampshire. but in the
United StateS.''