Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-04-27

Short Items of Interest Gathered from
All Over the World 4

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Earthquakes were felt in Austria on ao days.
Does not exist in the sea below a depth of 1900 fee.
Freezes at p deg. Fair; fresh water lakes at 80 deg Fair
And coolest months for the ocean are August and February.
Is situated almost in the seomeuiopl center of European Russia
Has a population f 11aa75s white people. and 88o8855 oolored.
Occupies six large and many small islands at the mouth of the Neva.
Is connected with Iceland by a submerged bank 1t a depth of 500 faith
In the world is New Guinea, 100000 square miles; Great Britain i, SO,
8s square miles.
OF the area of Japan is mountainous. and less than 1s per cent is
under cultivation.
100000 square miles, is the largest lake in the world; Tough Neagh is
Mount Everest
Ben = Ne %G E is ia eot 800 feeF-l' the highest mountain in the world;
Cover about onesfxh of the total area of the country, reaching a total
Of over 100000 acres.
OF the sea is about 1900 feet; the average height of the land above sea
Possesses the most interesting fora, end the most numerous and va-
In Europe alone has an area of 100000 square miles; the area of sbe-
The Norwegian Lakes
Sometimes freeze with such randhy that it IS possible to cross them on
ice formed in a single night
Are Sc numerous in Uganda that they may be cen covering the ground
in dense white II yellow clumps.
OF the groups of islands of which Japan is composed is about twOthrds
greater than that Of Great Britain.
Flows with considerable raptdiy IN its upper reaches. A speed of $50
The Deepest Sounding
Yet made in the oceans is the Aid rich Deep, to the East of New zea
land. Here the sea is 8O98O feet deer.
Japan
Is fifty times smaller than Russia in superficial area, and her total pop,
ulation is about onethird that of the Russian empire.
Lake BtWa
Is the only large sheet of fresh water in Japan worthy of mention. 1t is
SO miles long, u miles wide and it's greatest depth about 300 feet
Loeb Tay
Is one of the deepest lakes in the British Isles. A maximum sounding
Of SOB feet has been made in this lake, whilst the mean depth is 1919 feet
New zeaands
Scenery is Sc beautiful and so varied that it has been termed a combna-
ttn of Switzerland, Southern France, Norway, the TyroI and North Italy.
Recent Travellers in Tibet
Have noticed that while the effects of rarefed air are severely felt at
attitudes of between $4,000 and 10000 feet on going yet higher all disagree
able sensations pass off.
Snow
Even in the tropics, never mehs, but remains continuously all the year
much lower than this.
Though Icebergs
Sometimes rise to a height Of 200 feet above the sea level; eightninths
of their total height is below the water During the Challenger Arctic expe-
dton an iceberg three miles in length was seen.
Kang~ha
Is an island off the west coast of Korea of considerable sHaegcal i'm
pornnce. 1t has a curious appearance owing to the fact that it is crossed
from east ito west by four parallel chains Of mountains.
A Volcanic Eruption
BADGES, a distance OF 100 miles. The deposit fell for twelve hours over the
entire island, attaining a thickness of nearly half an inch. It's estimated
weight was, therefore, nearly 100000 tons.
In Central China
There is a province-Yunnan-the entire population of which, men,
women and children are hopelessy given to the opium habit. The poppy
is cultivated in almost every available patch or arabic land, and the in
abuse of the drug.
The ka
the sheep of that country as wolves would be These canivorous birds
fasten themselves on the backs of grazing sheep, tear through wool ana
skin to the hdneyfat which they devCur, leaving the unfortunate animal
to perish in agony.
The Natives Of Kikuyu
In the East African Protectorate go about we'll armed. They carry a
stout aceofspades-shaped spear. a real bufalohide shield a heavy dou
ment' is a plentiful coat If terracotta earth, and they wear numerous arh
ces Of metal as ornaments.