Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-02-21
Gleaninss and Gossip

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bird Of India, Of the stork species. viii
swallow a hare or q cut whole. II
stands five feet high and the OK.
panse OF wings Is nearly fifteen feet.
Senior Theodore Desha. the governor
Of Vera Cruz. Mexico, has given TO the
Carnegie museum at Pittsburg a Mex.
lean idol which was regarded ~ the
gem Of his archaeological collection.
Some time ago q brown bear In
the Bronx geological park. New York.
took the combined strength OF four
men to pull the molar. after which the
bears former amisbility returned.
Nine. Melba possesses such . re-
teutive memory that she can learn
an entire opera in a week. She does
much OF her studying In bed. where
she II far from noise. but the airs are
chiefly mastered while she Is walking
or driving.
The latest railway Improvement In
Palestine Is a line from Haifa ACROSS
the plains OF Esdraelon east OF the
Jordan 10 Dara, there to Join the He'd.
JAZZ railway now being constructed for
the convenience OF pilgrims between
Damascus and Mecca.
Sir Harry johnson, speaking at a
public meeting in London. said he
had travelled extensively In Africa for
the purpose Of putting down the slave
trade and that 1t wal his experience
that there was more misery and des-
titution in London than In any one
separate part Of Africa.
One Of the new Atlantic turbine
liners will carry a heavier chain than
any vessel ever carried before. Each
link weighs l60 pounds. being three
quarters OF an inch thick In the small.
est part. When tho links were sent
to be tested to the point OF. destruc-
ton they withstood the full test OF
the powerful testing machine. q ten.
sion Of more than 800 tons.
A marvellous dispatch Of armospher-
ic reflection peculiar to the Alps was
witnessed the other day by passen,
gers on the Paris Frankfort express.
Shortly after leaving Metz q wonder
full panorama developed in the hori-
zon on the western, side. The sun
seemed to light up the whole Alpine
chain, the great mass Of Mont Blanc
stood ont clearly marked, Its sides
covered with snow and It's glaciers re-
fleeing the sunbeams. The mirage
lasted about twenty minutes.
News reashes US from a reliable
source that no copies OF the Korean
Daily News are permitted to be dis
patched through the post until a
translation has been submitted to the
tender mercies Of the Japanese lega-
ton and headquarters stan. This state
OF affairs IS intolerable, and II our
country and foreign subscribers can
bear our informant ont we will imme-
diately take all possible steps to OBJ
tain rectification OF what appears to
he 4 gross abuse.-Korea Daily News,
Seoni.
Congressman Hamilton. chairman
OF the committee on territories. was
feeling extra good the other morning
and as he stepped into an elevator IN
the capitol building he broke into the
chorus OF a negro melody. MI. Ham
ilton has rather a good baritone voice
and his smiling-face encouraged the
elevator man to join In with q capital
tenor. The chorus rolled out with
fine effect, much to the horror OF q
policeman on duty q couple Of floors
up. When the officer saw that Con-
gresham Hamilton vi n Of the
offenders he wisely held his peate.
A girls school at Singora, Siamese
Malaga, was opened last November
with forty-seven pupils, a number
which has since increased to sixty
three. Apart zrom the missionary
school this Is the first school for girls
TO be started In Siam outside Bang.
kok. There is no prejudice In Siam
against education. and there Is plen-
ty Of evidence that all owe the coun-
try officials and others In good posi-
lions would welcome any provision Of
education for their daughters. the
treat difficulty, Of course. as also IN
the case Of boys. n the want of train
ed teachers.-Bangkok Times.
Accommodations for smokers 70
| railway trains, which is now beina
discussed, says the London Chronicle
| dates back to only 1868. and on Octo
! Der 1 II will be thirty-eight years
since travellers were first entitled q
smoke BY rail. The question wal
raised az an amendment to . board Of
trade hill regulating the railway sys
tenn and providing. among othel
things, for means Of communication
between the passengers and the
guard, and also imposing a penalty o.
1900 on any company conveying
principals, seconds or spectators 4
q prize fight A clause enjoinini
smoking carriages was proposed b!
Mr., Sheridan, NJ. p. for Dudley, ant
carried by a majority Of sixteen, afte'
a debate in which John Stuart MAJ
made his last speech In the house
earnestly supporting the reform ant
recommending with remorseless Iogi'
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