Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-01-31
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Liverpool has an official rat catcher.
OF 1872 Maine legislators, 1ss are na-
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OF 1872 Maine legislators, 1ss are na-
tive.
In 1898 1909, ,132, ,o74 gallons of beer
were made in Germany.
Stammering is practically unknown
among u-lcivilized people.
Seven million miles of thread are an
nually used in the United States.
England's turf patrons spend about
$50, 200, 900 each year in horse racing.
1t is calculated that over 500, ,ooo,-
900 are invested in cotton mills in the
south.
A clay found near Clarence, NO.,
has been found to eontian 40 per cent
of aluminium.
The army and navy of the Argentine
confederation are kept up at an annual
cost of $4,000, 900.
There ara twenty-ons law firms in
the United States in which husband
and wife are partners.
During 1894 Is, 500 marriage licenses
were issued in Chicago. OF this num-
Der $500 were issued in June.
A Maine woodchopper recently cut
down a tree containing a peck of
Duckwheat which had been stored by
mice.
There are forty-five survivors of
the war of 1912 on the roll of the pen
sion Office, of whom fifteen are 100
years or more old.
Louisiana has the largest farm in
the United States. 1t is 100 miles one
way and 25 the other. The fencing
alone cost $4,000.
New Zealand has set aside two
islands where hunting is prohibited,
for the preservation of its remarkable
wild birds and animals.
A New York agency reports that
hotels in the United States during the
past year have been swindled out of
s22, ,419.51 by bill-jumpers.
There is specimen of the Mission
grapevine at Carpenteria, Cal, which
has girth of six feet four inches at
the base and is still growing.
A bullet was recently removed from
the head of an Indian man, where it
had been deposited in an Ecuadoran
rebellion many years before.
The Japanese are now getting used
to glass. At first the glass in railway
car windows had to be smeared with
streaks of white paint to keep passen-
gers from poking their heads through
it.
a society for the suppression of
hand-shaking has been formed in
Russia. It's founder is physician
who believes the practice to be dan
gerous on account of the probable
transmission of dangerous bacilli.
HabItuaI arsenic eauers can orten
take dose of two grains in weight
with impunity, and it is curious that
arsenic does not affect the mind in
any way, like opium or other drugs,
and never becomes a passion with its
votaries.
1t is proposed to establish tele-
phone line between England and Hol-
land. The London Chamber of Com
merce and the Netherland Chamber
of Commerce are trying to ascertain
if the time is yet ripe for the under
taking.
In surgical operations the skin in
cision is often the most painful part,
and those who have been run through
the body say they were conscious
only of something cold passing through
them, with just prick at the points
of entry and exit of the weapon.
Somebody has discovered the cur
ious fact that the reluctance ofwomen
to tell their ages is no piece of modern
sensitiveness. 1t is as old as the hills.
In the Old Testament, although great
numbers of women are mentioned,
there is but one--Sarah, Abraham's
wife-whose age is recorded.
A new carpet for the Waterloo
chamber at Windsor castle, said to be
the largest ever manufactured, has
been woven in the jail at Agra, India,
by prisoners undergoing penal servi-
tude. They hope to obtain remis-
sion of sentence for their diligence in
completing the task, which has taken
them fourteen months. Twenty eight
convicts were engaged in the work,
the carpet measuring n feet by 40,
and contains So, SAG, 900 stitches.
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