The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-11

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 Q. what are the customs and diversions of the Irish?
 A. There are . few customs existing in Ireland peculiar to this country. These are their funeral howlings and presenting their ccrpses in the streets to excite the charity of strangers, their convivial meet ings on Sunday, and dancing to baspipes, which are usually attended with quarreling.
 O. What curiosities are there in Francef
 A. A fountain near Grenobls emits flame which will hurn paper. straw. etc. but Will not burn gun powder Within about eight leagues of the same place is an inaccessible mountain in the form of pyramid reversed.
 Q. What curiosities are there in Portugal!
 A. There are lakes into which . stone being cast causes . rumbling like the noise of an earthquake.
 Q What do you observe of the inhab- itants of 0uineaf
 In Eyo. where the people are governed oy king who is not absolute, when they are tired of him. . deputation waits on him and informs him that 1t is fatiguing for him to bear the burden of government any longer. advising him to take little rest. He thanks them and retires to his apartment as if to sleep. and directs his women to strangle him; and after he expires they de- stroy all things which belonged to him or to themselves. and then kill one another His son succeeds to the government. and on the same terms.
 a. Give a consise description of the Giasss and Anniansf
 A. The first ,nhabit . part of the Congo coast; the later live In the Macao. The people are cannibals They kill and eat their first born children: and their friends who die are eaten by their relations The King of Macaco resides in Monsoi where there is e market in which human flesh Is sold, although other meat exists in plenty They esteem it luxury. and 1t is said e hundred prisoners and slaves are daily killed for the kings table.
 c. What arc the characteristics Of the Hottentotsf
 A. They are the most abject of the human race. They besmear their bodies with soot and grease. live upon carrion. old leather. shoes and everything of the most loath' | some kind dress themselves in sheeps skin. l untanned. turning the wool to their flesh l 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 e marked fn- dividuaiity of its own was thick little vol ume, mostly in verse. entitled The Mon ,tor's Instructor" published at wilmington in iso4. In the prose portion of the book are several curious paradoxes. Here Is one of them:
 Three men went on journey. in which.
 
 further than their feet, all returnd alive. with their heads on.
 The solution explains that 'If any person should travel round the globe, the space travelled by his head will exceed that his feet travelled" by about the number of yards mentioned.
 Cummings Geography. 1874. apoiogises in its preface for adding another ito the num- Der of geographies. already so great as to obstruct rather than promote improvement" During the previous decade Lewis and Clark had made their journey across the con- tinent and we now find mention of the .stony Mountains" It was a number of years before the name Rocky was substitut- ed for Stony Concerning the Andes in South America, we are told These amaz- ing mountains, in comparison with which the Alps are but little hills. have Assures in some places a mile wide. and deep in pro- portion; and there are others that run un- der ground, and resemble in extent a prov ince."
 Adams Geography. 1s1s. is divided into three parts. The following is from Part 1T: "A mountain is a vast protuberance of the earth.
 "rhe White Mountains are the highest. not only in ew-Hampshire, but in the United States"