Amador ledger., 1905-08-18
PICKINGS from the DUMP !
By the Tenderfoot

scnool Doy KNOWS lG was l492. Of
course, 72 years isn't much when
you're looking backward and talking
about centuries, but if we are looking
ahead, it would mean a life time.
That's one drawback to setting:type
by machinery. We've been trying to
find some fault with it, and at last
have found tit has made Columbus
discover America before he was born.
think we'll have to send it back to
the factory and return to the case
and stick.
The little slip has proven one thing.
however, and that is that the Ledger
is read and the dump picked over.
for the TenderfOot has received no
less than 3S letters calling his atten.
tion to the error. That's certainly
worth something.
Now, just to test the machine. |
am going to spring a few more dates
on you and see how many cogs the
machine will slip. If there is an
error, drop a. line, and we III keep
tabs.
The original Pyramid of Egypt was
built 2l7O years before Christ. Think
of that for half minute. That same
Pyramid has stood there over 4O75
years, and is standing today, only a
trlfIe shell-worn in appearance, too.
Ihey don't build such structures
nowadays. I'll bet that if any boy
lives to see $3.50 he won't see the
Flatlron building standing in New
York.
I'LL years before the Christian era
the compass was discovered, and M
to that time, ] presume sailors had to
take their bearings from high tree
or the north star, but it is possible
they had not discovered the north
star at that time.
Water clocks we're used 155. B. c.
but Waterbury watches we're not
manufactured until few years later.
though it is said, on good authority.
that the inventor commenced to wind
them somewhere about the birth of
time.
Money was first coined in Rome SIG
BIC, and statisticians claim tbatJohn
u. Rockefeller was just old enough to
creep and picked up the first piece as
1t fell from. the crucible or mould,
and 1t is still on exhibition at his
home in Cleveland, though he has
placed most of the output since in
safe deposit vaults and stocks.
The Masons dedicated Solomon g
temple in Jerusalem, in 1923, B. G.
The first newspaper printed in
America was Issued in Boston in 1890.
and 10 years later Benjamin Franklin
was born, and established the Satur-
day Evening Post, in PHILADELPHIA
IN l72S, which is published today. and
served to customers in jackson every
Saturday afternoon by Del Norte
Winning, at 5 cents per copy.
The last half of the eighteenth CEN
Jury was record breaker, as far as
wonderful events and remarkable
happenings are concerned. 1t was
certainly a history-making epoch
second to none in the world 3 chrome.
logy. Note few of the events:
l759-Canada was taken from the
French.
1769-Napoleon was born.
l63-Steam engine perfected by
Watt.
l773-Tea destroyed in Boston harbor
l776-Fourth of July born.
1777-"OId Glory" born June 18th.
l7oS-First settlement in Australia.
1IS9-Washington inaugurated Pre-
sident.
17s9-French Revolution began.
1855 Cotton gin invented by
Whitney.
1796-Vaccination discovered by
Jenner.
1799-Death of Washington.
Isn't that bunch to crowd into so
years?
L can't account for my being so
remlnescent today, unless it is that l
was called upon this morning by an
agent who attempted to sell history
of the United States to me. l didn't
subscribe for it, however, not because
L did't want it, but expect soon to
be able to drop into the jackson
public library and read the best
histories published of every country.
L wonder If it is possible that Jack
son doesn't care for a public library?
Surely it is not because it is diff
cult to obtain, nor that it is going
to be expensive, tor the state library
association of Sacramento has offered
to supply the books, and is ready to
ship them on any time that we will
guarantee to receive them, place
them in a protected room and take
proper care of them. Nothing the
matter with that offer. And think of
the benefits and pleasure derived:
No charge for drawing a book and
keeping it until read.
All the new books at your disposal,
absolutely free.
A comfortable, light, and cheerful
reading room, where any man, woman
or child can spend all the time they
care to, day or night, when the
library Is and Innlr