Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1903-11-13
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In England one person In every 293
IS insane.
I Half the novels printed in France
are exported.
The Hebrew millionaires in Ameri-
ca number 1l5.
In South Brazil 80 per cent of the
people are Germans.
/ The maximum draft for vessels pass
ling the Suez canal is now 26 feet 3
inches.
1t takes six years for grass to grow
where sheep have pulled it up and
( trampled 1t.
The railways Of the United States
haul LOCO tons of freight year for
each employee.
Nineteen million immigrants reached
the United States in the eighty years
ending with 1900.
/ Rural parks to the ndmber of 352
are maintained by trolley car compa-
MES of the United States.
The electric roads of the United
States carried last year three times
the population of the earth.
/ Americans consume 100000 600
4 pounds of Chinese teas, 81, 000,0 of
japanese and about 100000 of In
dian.
1t costs $40 week to feed horse
/ in Pretoria There is plenty of fertile
land In the country, but very little
water.
The civilian passengers through the
Suez canal last year numbered $1,000,
and the pilgrims, emigrants and CON
yiets, 10000
The most distinctly German city in
the United States is Milwaukee, where
more than half the population is of
German stock.
Over 80 per cent of the population
of Mexico is pure or mixed Indian
stock. The land is all owned by 800
Spanish families.
The carrying capacity of the aver
age German freight car is ten to IF
teen tons. Cars of double that capaci-
ty are to be tested.
The maximum endurance of a r.
inch gun is 800 firings, while the six
inch gun may be fired upward of 1000
times without injury.
The blank cartridges which caused
TOW In, nj
are made by one Canadian and four
American manufacturers.
! A sensitive dog will follow the track
of man who Is wearing its masters
boots and will reject the track of Its
master If he has on strange boots.
Out of 346 cases Of smallpox in Chi
cago sent to the isolation hospitals this
year, 80 were unyaccinated children
under school age, and IA of these died.
The yearly consumption of beer ay-
erages fifty-seven gallons head
throughout the German empire, an In
crease of nearly so per cent since
1882.
workers who put together the steel
skeleton frames which are now used
In the construction of all Large build
ings.
The biggest automobile In the world
Is the traction engine used In hauling
borax out of the Mojave desert. This
machine can make Death valley pro-
duce.
The number of murders a million In
habitants Is, In England, 5.13; In Ger
many, 5.45; In France. 11.55; in Aus
tria, 1912; in Italy, 1911, and In
Spain, 44.70.
Siam sold abroad $37 $50, 900 worth
last year, almost entirely rice, and
bought SGT ,692,0O0 Dollar clocks was
United States.
Samuel w. Hammers, who keeps a
country store near Gettysburg, Pa,
advertised for wife recently, and In
the course of few days received an
swers from 200 women.
Taking into consideration all sub
jects of study available for the degree
of bachelor of arts, the average grade
of the average student under the aver
age professor is SO per cent
The number of high school students
studying physics decreased during the
last ten years from "A to Is per cent,
while the number studying Latin In
creased from 40 to 30 per cent.
Australia as a result OF last years
drought. bought since January 1000
( 600 bushels of wheat or Its equivalent
IN -four from the Pacific coast and
100000 bushels from New York.
There are now somewhat over lOO,-
600 students in our colleges, UNIVERSE
ties and technical schools, and some
what over 10000 students in our pro
fessional schools of theology, law aud
medicine.
1t is said that nine different systems
Of wireless telegraphy made a babel
in the air during the first yacht race,