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Picked Pars. A Few Items of Fact that Will Interest You. Latest in Street Sweepers. A mechanical street-sweeper ..

... directed ou to the road in !Lout of the roller broom. Caribbean Cannibals. Professor S. HiHermann, the German ecientist and explorer, affirms that the natives living on the coast of the Caribbean Sea are mostly cannibals. Although fish, birds, and various ...

Published: Thursday 17 December 1908
Newspaper: Pearson's Weekly
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 504 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

PEARSON'S WEEKLY. there is a part of it which could be turned into a sea. By cutting the 150-foot high

... sea-board of the United States—is that of making an immense ship canal all along the coast from Philadelphia down to the Caribbean Sea. A glance at the map will prove that the enterprise is by no means so impossible as might be imagined. Including Chesapeake ...

Published: Thursday 08 October 1903
Newspaper: Pearson's Weekly
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 324 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

PEARSON'S WEEKLY

... Danish schooner named Emanuel, believed to be the oldest vessel afloat. She was built in 1749, and for years sailed the Caribbean Sea under the Black Flag: So your boy Willum is an inventor ? said Mr. Giles. one morning. Farmer Corntops paused a moment ...

Published: Thursday 01 December 1910
Newspaper: Pearson's Weekly
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 329 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

The Port of Bottles

... The Port of Bottles. Timm is a dead spot in the Caribbean sea, said an officer of a big ship to P.W., that ought to be called ' the port of bottles.' It lies very nearly midway between Cartagena, in Colombia, and Kingston, Jamaica, and at a imams ...

Published: Saturday 18 November 1899
Newspaper: Pearson's Weekly
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 408 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

REAL DRAGONS

... nightfall, and closes it at dawn. The Queen of the Night blooms for one night only, and has its home on the islands of the Caribbean Sea. The triangular cactus, whose flowers are a foot in length and width, follows the same habit. From Virginia comes the ...

Published: Thursday 07 July 1904
Newspaper: Pearson's Weekly
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 476 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

fit CIS,

... accomplished by the United States vessel Blake when employed on the work of charting the various currents by which the Caribbean Sea and its approaches, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Gulf Stream proper, are characterised. Such a feat as to anchor in ,000 ...

Published: Saturday 27 October 1894
Newspaper: Pearson's Weekly
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 736 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

A WANDERER ON THE TRACKLESS

... during her wanderings over the Atlantic, from the place where she was abandoned to the island of the San Blas coast in the Caribbean Sea, where she was being picked to pieces by the Indians, she covered a distance of considerably over 8,000 miles. In other ...

Published: Saturday 14 November 1896
Newspaper: Pearson's Weekly
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 829 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

MOTHER EARTH ON THE SPREE

... North Pacific, become suddenly incorporated with America, and we may hear ultimatelY of her designs on a sea-port in the Caribbean, or a railway siding in the Mississippi, while America may set to add to her dominions Kamschatka, Siberia may become suddenly ...

Published: Saturday 25 May 1901
Newspaper: Pearson's Weekly
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 860 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

WARRIOR ANTS

... WARRIOR ANTS. w's in I lonthiraa, near the Caribbean Coed, while on a Gi.vernment survey, that I first maw the warrior ants. One intensely hot day. as I sat swinging idly in a hammock wider the thatched roof of my bamboo hut, a native came running in ...

Published: Saturday 06 May 1893
Newspaper: Pearson's Weekly
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 857 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

And at Others Noises like the Galloping of Horses

... terrible scare no longer ago than last year, just at the time when everyone was excited by the fearful volcanic disaster in the Caribbean Sea. From the Observatory it is reported that there was a loud, long drawn-out report accompanied by intermittent rumbling ...

Published: Thursday 19 November 1903
Newspaper: Pearson's Weekly
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1289 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

ASTIO*6 WOltTit miswrimio

... were, pile the water up, the level of the.Atlantio on the African and European waste is on an a ten test lower than in the Caribbean Sea. In hot latitudes a small body of water connected asmell opening with a la_rger body, will be at a cosadorably lower ...

Published: Saturday 21 April 1894
Newspaper: Pearson's Weekly
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1308 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Sour three years back, certain stockbroking friends Of the Rev. R. G. Rosecamp, of Kokomo, Indiana, U.S.A., ..

... was an old negro sea-trader, poor, and very superstitions. He used to ply between the smaller islands and keys of the Caribbean 'Archipelago in a crazy sloop, laden with cheap coloured cotton cloths, glass beads, gaudy parasols, and other similar n ...

Published: Thursday 11 September 1902
Newspaper: Pearson's Weekly
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2028 | Page: 12 | Tags: none