CURIA KEGIS. 670 CURLING. Constitutional History of England (Oxford, 1883) ; Stephens, History of the Criminal Law (London, 1883); Essays in Anglo-liaxon Law (Boston, 1876); Dugdale, Origines Juridicales; or. Historical Memorials of the English Laics, etc. (London, 1606) ; Indenvick, The King's Peace, A Historical Sketch of English Law Courts (London, 1895) ; Pollock and jMaitland, History of English Law (•2d ed., London and Bos- ton, 1889) ; liigby. An Introduction to the His- torii of the Law of Heal Property {Sth ed., Ox- ford, 1899). CURIATII, ku'ri'a'slii-i. The tribal name of three Alban brothers, the opponents of the three Iloratii (q.v.) in the famous contest by which Alba became subject to Rome. They were suc- cessively slain by the surviving Horatius after his two" brothers had been killed. The story is finely told in Corneille's tragedy Horace. CURICANCHA, koo're-kan'cha (Quichua, court of gold ) . A temple of the sun, said to liave been founded by ilaneo Capac, in Cuzco, Peru, and to have been first used as a palace by the early Incas. The church and convent of Santo Domingo vi'ere built upon its site, soon after its demolition during the Spanish Conquest. Only irregular portions of its walls now remain, sur- rounded by the structure of the more modern edilice, CURICO, kon're-ko'. The capital of the Prov- ince of CuricO. Chile (Map: Chile. C 10), situ- ated, at an elevation of 800 feet above sea-level, 108 miles south of Santiago. It is connected with Santiago by railroad, and has considerable trade with Argentina through the Planchon Pass. Curico was settled in 1743, though not on its present site. Population, in 1899, 17,638. CU'RIO (clipped from curiosity) . A term still popularly used, though somewhat obsolete, to describe any kind of object of curiosity, espe- cially such as would belong to cabinet (q.v.) collections, on account of antiquity, rarity, un- usual association, or intrinsic interest, in such domains as pottery, porcelain, enamels, metal- work, ivories, wood-car'ing3, arms, clocks, fans, watches, snuff-boxes, nuisical instruments, and the like. The kind of indiscriminate, unscientific collection that could be called by this name is going out of fashion, and the term with it, CURIOSITIES OF LITERATURE. A work in six vohimes by Isaac D'lsraeli, which appeared without indication of its authorship, at inter- vals from 1791 to 1824. CURIOUS IMPERTINENT, The. A tale in Cervantes's Don Quixote, in which the 'Curi- ous Impertinent' tries the fidelity of his trusted wife through the agency of a friend, and is de- ceived by both. The story is used by Crowe in The Married Beau, or the Curious Impertinent. CURISCHES HAFF, koo'rish-es haf. See KURISCIIES Haff. CURITIBA, koo're-te'ba. The capital of the State of Parana, Brazil (Slap: Brazil, H 9), situ- ated on Iguazu River, in a fertile plain, 3200 feet above sea-level. It is well built, and has a high school and a street railway. Railroads lun to the interior and to the coast, and the town exports corn, beef, fruit, tobacco, and Paraguay tea. There are gold-mines in the vicinity. Curi- tiba was settled in 1654, and since 1831 has been the capital of the State. Population, about 10,000. CURLEW (OF. corlieu. It. chiurlo; probably ouomatopoetic in origin). A shore-bird of the genus Nunienius, and snipe family, characterized especially by its long, slender, downward-curving bill, and its liking for upland plains lather than BILL OF ESKIMO CrRLEW. marshy places. In America are the Hudsonian or .lack curlew (Numoiius Hiidsonicus) , the Es- kimo curlew, or doe-bird (yumenius iorealis) , and the long-billed curlew (^umenius longirostris) . The first two are found in summer in far Arctic regions and in winter as far south as Patagonia, so that during some part of the year they occur in most portions of the Yestern Hemisphere. The long-billed, whose beak is sometimes eight inches long, belongs in the eastern and central L'nited States, especially at the South, and on the Northwestera prairies. Its nest, like that of other curlews, is on the ground, and slightly con- structed, and the eggs are clay-colored, with various browTi markings. The common curlew of Great Britain {Nume- nius arquatus) , the 'whauj)' of the Scotch, has an almost world-wide distribution in the Old World, migrating even to Xew Zealand. It frequents the grassy moors of England and Scotland in summer, and its whistle is one of the character- istics of those upland scenes. Its flesh and eggs are both eaten. Other , Old World species are the whimbrel (Nunienius phceopus) and the Otahiti curlew (Xunicnius Ta'itensis) , of the Pacific islands, often called the bristle-bellied cur- lew, because the feathers of the belly are tipped vvith glistening bristles. Consult: Coues, Birds of the Northwest (Washington, 1874) : and Selous, Bird Watching (London, 1901). See Plate of Be.cii-Bibds. CURLING (so called from the twisting mo- tion of the curling-stones). This has the unique distinction of being the only ancient game about which there is no ambiguity as to its place of origin; it is purely a Scottish game, and wher- ever Scotchmen have gone, there the game flourishes. Associated with the parent body to- day, 'The Royal Curling Club of Scotland,' are clubs in England, Ireland, Canada, Newfound- land, New Zealand, Nova Scotia, the United States, Russia, and Switzerland. There are two curling games — the rink play and 'playing for points.' The rink game is played on any piece of ice, upon which may be plotted out a rink 42 yards long (occasionally 32 yards) and 10 yards wide. There are four players on each side, each using two stones of circular .shape, not heavier than 44 pounds, and not of greater circumference than 36 inches, though in Canada, where iron has to be used in- stead of stone, they weigh from 60 to 70 pounds. Each player in turn takes his position on the crampct or iron foothold at one end of the rink, and propels his stone as near to the tee, 38 yards
