Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1898-03-03
THE LITTLE ENCYCLOPEDIA.

The average person wears nearly
fourteen pounds of clothing.
1t is estimated that 4o0, 900 larks are
sold yearly for food at the Leadenhall
Market, London.
Harbor, the great authority on fish,
says that every square mile of the sea
is inhabited by 120, ,000, 900 fish.
Nearly 20, 200 tons of cork are needed
for the bottled beer and aerated
waters consumed annually in Great
Britain.
The Chinese dictionary, compiled by
Pa-cut-she 1,100 years B. O., is the
most ancient of any recorded in liter
ary history.
There are now Ave missions Of the
highest class in the diplomatic service
of the United States-the embassies to
London, Paris, Rome, Berlin and st.
Petersburg.
Among the Siamese the curious Gus
tom obtains of reversing the elbow
joint of the left arm as sign of super
iority. The children of both sexes
are trained to reverse their elbow in
this painful position at an early age, il
their parents are persons of high
grades.
The surface of the sea is estimated
at 100, ,OU0, 900 square miles, taking the
whole surface of the globe at 197, ,0O0,-
600, and its greatest depth supposedly
equals the height OF the highest noun
tain, or four miles. The Pacific Ocean
covers 100000 square miles, the
Atlantic 5000, 600, the Mediterranean
!, ,0OO, 900.
Some 300 and odd cats are main
tanned by the United States govern
ment, the cost of their support being
put down as a regular item 10 the
accounts of the Postoffice Department.
These cats are distributed among
about fifty postoffices and their duty
is to keep rats and mice from eating
and destroying postal matter and
canvas mail sacks.
1t takes a healthy man four months
to eat his own weight in food.
1t is calculated that in large ocean
steamers more than 5000 articles of
glass and china are broken on every
voyage.
1t is estimated that the output of
silver from the Pochico mines in the
State of HidaIgo, Mexico, for this year
will amount to $4,000, 900.
The steam craft Of the United States
last year carried $50, ,O00, 600 passengers
with loss of 46 passengers and 1877
belonging to the crews.
One million and half of men work
In the coal mines of the world. OF
these Great Britain has 535 900, the
United States 30O, 200, Germany 1885,
900, Belgium 100000, and Russia
A, 600. The worlds miners of metal
number 10000
/ The Hawaiian Islands were discov-
cred by Gaetano, q Spanish navigator,
In 1872 The independence of these
islands was recognized by the United
States in 1929, and more formally in
1913, by Belgium in 1874, and by Eng
land and France later In the same year.
Projectiles used by the United States
army for its great modern guns cost
as follows: Solid shot, s.inch, $50 81
each; 10-inch, $144.50 each; 12-inch,
s212 each; 12-inch mortar shells
weighing 500 pounds, STA each; r.
inch mortar shells, weighing 1,00(
pounds, $1s5 each.
The eight women colcnels Of the
German army, who draw swords only
occasionally and their salaries regu-
larly, are: The Empress OF Germany,
the dowager empress, wife Of the late
Frederick III, Princes Frederick
Charles Of Prussia, the Queen Regent
ISophia and the Queen WiIhelmina ol
the Netherlands, the Duchess Of Con.
naught, the Duchess Of Edinburgh
sister of the Emperor Of Russia, and
Queen Victoria.