Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-04-26

days, during which time the prizes,
says prayers over the grave,
y Are there any lakes In Scotlandy
A, There are many, but two are very
remarkable One ear Loclmess Is on
the top Of u hill almost two miles high,
This lake Is small, but II has never
been sounded, nor does IL even freeze
About seventeen miles distant IL an
other lake which Is frozen all the year
., What ARE the persons and charac'
tiers Of the Scots A. They are gcner'
ally lean, rNwboncd and have high
~checkbones. which Is a characterised
feature,
q. What are the diversions Of the
Scots \. They are all of the vigor.
Gus, athletic kind such as dancing,
golf and curling, The golf Is n species
OF ball playing performed with n bat
and q ban, the extremity Of the bat
being loaded with lead. and The party
which strikes the hall with feweSt
strokes into a hole prepared for the
purpose wins the game.
q. What are the customs and diver
sioils of the lrishf A, There are n few
customs existing in Ireland peculiar 10
this country. These are their funeral
bowling and presenting their corpscs In
the streets 10 excite the charity Of
strangers: their conyivral meetings ID
Sunday and dancing to bagpipes. which
are usually attended With quarreling,
.. What curiosilies are there In
Francei a. A fountain near Grenoble
emits a flame which will burn paper,
straw, etc. but will not burn gunpow.
der. Within about eight leagues of the
samc place is an inaccessible mountain
in the form Of a pyramid reversed.
G. What do you observe Of the inhab.
itants Of Guinea! A. They are chiefly
pagans and laolaters. In Ego, where
the people are governed by a king who
Is not absolute, when they are tired Of
him a deputation waits on him and In
forms him that it Is fatiguing for him
to bear the burden of government any
longer. advising him to take Il rest. He
thanks them and retires to Ais apart.
ment MS If to sleep and directs his wo-
men TO strange him. and after lie eX-
pires they destroy all things which be
lOnged TO him or to themselves and
then kill one another. His son sue.
ceeds to the government and on the
same terms.
Q. Give Il concise description of the
Giagcs and Annians? \. The first in.
habit a part of the Kongo coast; the
latter live in the Macao. The people
are caunihais. They kill and eat their
firsthorn children. ana their friends
who die are eaten by their relations
The king Of Macao resides IN MonSol
where there is a market in which hu
man flesh is sold, although other mea,
exists in plenty. They esteem ii a lux
ury, and it is said 100 prisoners OF
slaves are daily Killed for the kings
table.
One geography that had a marked
individuality of its own was a thicl
little volume. mostly in verse. entitled
"Ihe Monitors Instructor" published
ut Wilmington in 179i. In the pros
portion Of the book are several curious
paradoxes.
Here j. one of II EN-.
Three men went on a journey IL
which. though t9eir heads travele,
twelve wards farther than their -fcpt
all returned alive, with their heads on.
The solution explains that If an,
person should travel round the glob'
the space Travelled by his head will ex
ceed that his feet travelled by abou
the number Of yards mentioned.
Cummings Geography. 1914, apollo
giZes in its preface for adding anothe
ITO the number of Biographies, alread,
so great as to obstruct rather than pre-
mote Improvement During the pre-
vious decade Lewis and Clark ha'
made their journey across the cont
nent. and we now find mention Of tn
"Stony mountains" 1t was a numbe
Of years before the name Rocky wa
substituted for Stony. Concerning tn
Andes. in South America. we are tolt
''These amazing mountains. In compal
ison with which the Alps are but littl
hills, have assures in son : places
mile wide and deep in proportion. an
: there are others that run undergroun
! and resemble in extent a province"
Adams Geography. 1913. is divide
into three parts. The following
: from part .:
"A mountain is Il vast prOtuberanC
Of the earth.
''The White mountains are the higl
est not only in New Hampshire. but
e the United States."-N New Englan
: Magazine.