Amador ledger., 1905-06-30
ssss ssessse,
ITEMS WORTHY
OF PERUSAL
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except i'll the treaty
ports, the sale of metal trimmed spec-
tacles. Tan shoes are also tabooed.
aud any one dealing III them renders
himself liable to deoapitation. The
latter drastic regulation is due to the
fact that yellow is there the imperial
color, to be worn 10y none save the
members of the royal family.
All we'll educated Spanish women
are taught from the earliest years to
handle the sword, and as result they
are noted for their admirable figures
and easy walk.
The deepest working coal r:ine in
Great Britain is at PendIeton, Man
chester. Here coal is being got at a
depth of 3, ,4S3 feet below the surface.
The deepest mine in the world is in
Belgium, coal being got at depth of
3, 773 feet below the surface.
A ships doctor who has made 100
voyages declares that the American
girl does not become seasick so read
lily as her European sisters. The Eng
lish girl is next in order of resistance.
while the French girl succumbs most
easily.
The average age of the Japanese
naval crews is lower than that of any
other navy. No one over twenty years
old is accepted for enlistment. The
average height is feet 4 inches-less
than that of any other navy.
In South Australia there exists a
language test for intending immi-
grants. Unless man can speak or
write English he is not permitted to
land.
There is no punishment in France
If the murderer is not discovered and
brough to trial III fifteen years. A
man who committed murder in Paris
twenty-five years ago has Just written
detiantly to the police confessing the
crime and saying he is about to return
to Paris
The wedding dress worn by the
Sultan of Turkeys daughter, who
was recently married to Abdur1aham
Pasha, cost $40, 600 1t was embroid-
cred with pearls by the palace dress
makers, who were guarded during
their work by an officer and two
soldiers.
Polish women are renowned for
their beauty and the perfection of
their hands and the smaIlness of
their feet. They place 6neness of the
bands above all other charms. 81 re-
gard my hands, not my faoe,'' said
one, and it is reported in Warsaw that
the Vienna shoe dealers keep separ-
ate case of shoes for the delicate feet
of their Polish customers. Polish
ladies maintain that when they shop
in Vienna and show their small feet
with the high instep to be fitted, the
tradesmen exclaim, "Ah, those are
Polish feetl''
Russia with population of TT,
00o,000 has only Is, 034 physicians. In
the United Safes, with a population
of about 10, 500, 600, there are 10, OOC
physicians.
In, hn icIo IS
Papua, the chief adornment of the
ladies is necktie made of black ants.
The native girls find the ants in the
gardens, they bite off and swallow the
lower end, throw away the head, and
thread the thorax. One woman, the
bride of a chief, wore a neck ace
eleven feet long, on which were the
bodies of l,SO0 ants.
The connection that exists between
Port Arthur and a peaceful village in
Devonshire, England, is little known.
Halt century ago the rector of Ather-
ington was the Rev. James Arthur,
the father of Lieutenant W. Arthur.
r. N, and great uncle of the present
rector, the Rev. W. w. Arthur; and
Lieutenant Arthur was somewhere
about 1859, sent in command of the
gunboat Algerine into Chinese waters.
The Algerine was attached to a sur
veying expedition prior to the land
ing made bV the English and French
in 1860, and when the flagship Acton
was disabled Lieutenant Arthur towed
her into the then unnamed harbor,
which was thenceforth known as Port
Arthur Lieutenant Arthur aferward
attained the rank of rear admiral.