Amador ledger., 1906-11-09
Curious Facts

immigrants from Italy outnum Der
those from Ireland four to one.
One Greenland whale weighs as
much as 50 elephants or 44O bears.
Smell is the only sense in which
man is not superior to the lower
animals.
Inc principal article of food for
about one-third of the human race Is
rice.
An inability to distinguish red is
the most common form of color
blindness.
There are more hunchbacks in
Spain than in any other country in
the world.
A bachelor is forced to wear skirts
in Korea and cannot don trousers
until he marries.
No goods that bear trade marks in
any way resembling a crescent can be
landed in Turkey.
The Convent of st. Catherine, on
Mt. Sinai, has not been entered by a
woman for 1,400 years.
London consumes only 10000, 900
gallons of water daily, while New
York uses 500, 0O0, 600 gallons.
The first South American country
to build railways was Chilli and that
country now has 5000 miles of track.
The hide from horse yields about
twenty pounds of leather. while that
from a COW gives thirty five pounds.
A man who fails to raise his hat
when funeral is passing in Chester,
England, is liable to fine and i'm
prisonment.
The Argentine Republic boasts of
the largest wheat field in the world.
1t covers little more than 100
square miles.
Marrying girl against the wishes
of her parents is, next to murder, the
most severely punishable crime in
Lapland.
Men under IL years of age cannot
marry in France and women must be
l6. In Spain the man must he Is
and the girl IA.
In Germany oak trees only live to
be about 300 years old, while in Nor
way and Sweden the pines will sur
vive for $40 years.
When Hawaii was discovered by
Capt. Cook in ITS it had population
of 200, 600. There are now only 81, :
700 natives on the island.
Brandy and water are supplied at
the expense OF the government to
every member of the Belgian parlla-
ment who makes long speech.
A Japanese woman's age can be
told by her dress. 1t is probably the
only country in the world where
women are not ashamed of their age.
10 Sweden the depot waiting rooms
are provided with beds for passengers
and porteIs call the travellers ten
minutes before the arrival of trains.
Fourteen thousand babies comprise
the annual crop of the biggest baby
farm in the world. 1t is located at
Moscow and has a branch IN st.
Petersburg that produces 5000
babies a year.
There are only ten persons in
France whose fortunes aggregate more
than S25, 900, 900; there are 100 who
have $1,000, 900 or over; 5000 who
possess $3.50, 900 and less than 10000
who own property valued at $500, 600.
There is an asylum for 1tffirm
animals and birds at Sodepur station,
about ten miles from Calcutta, which
at present houses 973 paupers, includ-
ing COWS. horses, buffalo, dogs, cats,
chickens, monkeys, goats, etc.
The "School for the Sons of the
EMPIRE" located at Pekin, China,
is the oldest university in the world.
1t has granite register. consisting
of 800 stone columns, on which are
inscribed the names of 10000 grad
yates.
Short clay pipes and tobacco are
furnished every mourner who attends
interments in the cemetery at Bah
ruck, Connemara. After the grave
has been filed in the mourners quit
smoking, the pipes are broken and
the ashes scattered over the mound.
Some form of silk is produced by
all moths.
An illinois preacher has arranged
to deliver his own funeral sermon by
means of phonograph.
The finest collection of orchids In
the world is said to be in the Aus
TITAN emperor's palace at Schonbrunn.
1t contains $1,000 plants.
There Is lighthouse made of BAN