ODD, AND ENDS.

Manawatu Herald, 22 July 1881, Page 3

ODD, AND ENDS.

;.: ■■<'■.- ..-., "-. - : — .» ■■.'!■,:•? . .. It is probably not generally known that the great pyramid of Cheops, in Egypt, is not the i largest -fracture' of the kind in the world. The pyramid' of Cheops covers only . y_mite_tt acres, While the pyramid of Pueblo, 'in Mexico, eovex*. forty acres of ground and „ was originally 600 feet high. It is estimated '" to have been built at least 7000 years ago. Sun dried brj6k Ja/tha nyvlgrial of which it is made. * ." ... 7 . .The ii latest man on record" is undoubtedly ft 'convict 2a the New Hampshire State Prison who has just been sentence, to twenty yeara\aVl»W _*bour. On entering the shop where he was to work, he walked up to the Otfoular saw, took ! the fingers oi his right hand in his left and cut it off at the wrist. As he thereby cut off a very impo^gutymepps of escape aitovhe must be . peculiarly constructed to find loafing ,about '■ a tlr-dn pM<_«ble to work.^Catho£c Re-•-vUlwi'^,":'"-; - ; .'■'■■'.'='"' - { . ; -«■•- --' 'OontWdlctbry aoc6t_i„ of 'Mexico art given by present traVeHers. A correspondent of th© OhicagO Thburie says,' "It it - '"'■ _dt ißpdply __i impoverished country, wit! "^|^ 'great natural resources which have beer ■ exhausted, for no' degree of 'agricultural and oomineroiat distress iH beyond- the pos ■ibility Cf , recuperation. ' Thi*' country ii nat— rally poor. Voloanio fires have blasted its surface. ' Vast sections, hundreds oi sqtffcrVi&gues, ate -but extinct craters.'' A eerfespoadent of the Louisville Courier . '* Jo_rß*Hs e4_l% port _ve' -that Mexico ii -u_ot)iKioT a_cl arid, but I ' if inhibited by oui - _ woe, m &ie-feta% with such'a popuiatior <» sod oniy^of *aHH equal number with thai which Mexico now has; 'the mineral anc b ; .i>l xo^jfih^ countrj