Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-02-22
ODD BITS OF INTEREST.

There are S,223, 997 men availa-
BILE for military duty in the United
States.
When the vote of a jury in Ger
many stands six to six the prisoner
is acquitted.
Kentucky is first in tobacco, fourth
in whisky, sixth in hogs and eighth
in rye and mules.
An eight and half pound sweet
potato is the product Of a Palm
Springs, Cal! farm.
More people have died from colds
than were ever killed in battle, de-
clares an investigator.
Buffalo is the only city in the
United States that has given the
country two Presidents.
Florida produces over fifty varie-
ties of the orange. The annual crop is
about $3.50, 900 boxes.
The name of the man who lights
the statue of liberty in Washington
nightly is MIR. America.
There $50 papers published in
the interest of anarchy, the majority
of which are issued in Spain.
The tongue of a toad is attached
to the front of his jaw and hangs
backward instead Of forward.
A Spanish musician has devised
a system of musical notation by
which the sharp and flat system is
done away with.
Workmen boring an artesian we'll
in Louisiana struck a maple log in
a sound state of preservation 80
feet below the surface.
The chief duty of Russian frontier
guards consists of preventing
the introduction of Nihilistic litera-
ture into Russian territory.
The Electrical Review estimates
that there is about 500, 00O, 900
invested in the telephone exchange
business of the United States.
In the northwestern part of Colo
RADIO there is a region several hum
dred square miles in extent which
is q vast deposit of petrified fish
Until the discovery of the gold
mines in California Russia was the
greatest gold-producing country,
mining about $40, 000, 900 a year.
A French priest stationed at Je-
rusalem has been the fortunate
finder of ga talent of the time Of
King David" 1t was unearthed in
his dooryard.
River pilots have an association
and have a locked box on the wharf
in Memphis in which notes as to
new channels and other discoveries
are dropped, each member having q
key.
1t has heretofore been almost i'm
possible to make large castings Of
aluminium, but the difficulty ha:
now been so far overcome that pure
aluminium bath tubs are made in
single piece.
The remains of a gigantic deel
were found in a cypress swamp II
Florida. 1t resembles the prehis'
toric Irish elk, and is the only one
of the kind found in this country
The antlers measure eight feet clever
inches.
Cicero was the greatest book col
lector Of antiquity. One of his let
tiers is extant in which he urgei
Atticus, a learned friend, who wa:
compelled from poverty to sell bis
library at auction, not to dispose o
the books at public sale, but to keel
them until the writer is able to pur
chase them, Cicero adding that he il
saving all the rents for that pur.
pose.
Thirty-one persons died of actua
starvation in London during las
year, eight infants and twenty-thre'
adults. Not one of the unfortunate
persons had ever applied to thu
parish authorities for relief, and il
only one case had the deceased per
son been at any time the inmate of
poorhouse or hospital. All wer.
people of unquestioned respectable
my, who had come upon hard time
and whose pride and horror of &C
cepting public aims overcame til
sharpest pangs of hunger.
Prof. Falb, of Berlin, prophesie
a very probable collision betwee'
earth and the comet of 1866 on No
vember Is, 1899, when the come
will cut the point where the cart
arrives every year at that time. Blu
he does not think harm could com
of such collision, the material of h
comet being so light, unless th
earbonic gas, of which il is probs
bly, composed, should poison gu
atmosphere. But, anyway, he say
va may look for q magnificen
shower of meteors on that date.
Reward.
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