The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-13
If You Do Not Know,
 You Ought to Know That

Odessa is one of the finest cities of Russia. Foundations for the present city were made in I7e4 and 1t is built upon territory ceded to Russia by Turkey in l792. It has popula- ton of 6Oo 900, nearly quarter of whom are Jews. There are magnificent buildings, the citizens are really the Americans of Russia. enterprising progressive and peaceful.
 The first transatlantic steamship, the "Sa- vannah," was built and owned in Savannah and made it's first voyage in 1879.
 There are fish known to be over I5o years old still on exhibition at the Royal Aquarium at St. Petersburg
 The cost of maintenance per man is SI GOO year in the British Navy.
 Two hundred and twenty thousand people cross London Bridge every day.
 The average American makes 29 trips on a railroad in a year, some of these trips are ex- ceedingly snort yet your average American gets on the train ten times oftener than does bis English cousin.
 In all Persia there are scant 54 miles of railroad
 It is estimated that there are 1900 tunnels in the world of something like a total of 600 miles,
 There are 900 railroad tunnels, 90 canal tunnels. 70 conduit tunnels, I2 subaqueous tunnels.
 British shipping has increased seven times faster than the population ever since the re- peal of the British navigation laws in 1919. The largest bronze stature in the world is that of Peter the Great at St. Petersburg that weighs about HOO tons.
 The first complete manuscript of the old tes- lament was finished fin 43o B. c. It was translated into Saxon in 637 A. D. and into English in 1884
 Asbestos is gotten largely from Canada and they, the French Canadians, appropriately call it cotton rock" It is really a physical para dox. It is dbrous and crystalline stone yet 1t floats; brittle yet elastic; non-eombustible and a non-conductor of heat and electricity It Is carded. spun and woven into clothing, theatrical scenery, lamp -wicks, ropes for hre- escapes and a thousand other surprising uses. Wood pulp paper. though a comparatively new manufacture. has been brought to a high day and its resultant paper is ready for the press the next. Some factories use as much as 500 cords of wood a day.
 One pound of shsep's wool produces yard of cloth.
 When Queen Victoria ascended the British throne 42 per cent. of the English people could not write their names. That proportion has been reduced to a trihe less than per cent. today
 Seven-tenths of the people of China are opium smokers and over z, 900 900 of them die annually from its effects.
 Some of our California brandy has been ex- ported to Germany and other European coun- tries for medicinal and other uses in their armies And lots more has been sent to France, bottled there and returned to this country as French brandy.
 Not one person in fifteen has perfect eyes ana the larger percentage of defectlveness prevails among blondes.
 An ordinary elephant produces I2o pounds of ivory.
 Alligators live to a ripe old age. They are known to reach 75 and even hundred years The smallest bird in the world is the 'any- eater'' of Cuba. It is but one-third the size Bf hummIngbird.
 The cost of rubber is greatly increasing. m India and the other rubber producing coun- ries, natives realizing the value of the pro- knaE have simply devaststed the forests. Yet