The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-30
QUEER STATISTICS
AND CALCULATIONS
Figures in Odd Array That Will
Prove of Interest to
All.
GREAT LAKE OF P0RRlDGE
EATEN IN SCOTLAND
Mustard Wasted Daily in Lon
don Would Give st. Paul'S
Coat of Paint.

If the Aurora Borealis were trans
planted and stuck in the middle of Eu-
rope, says London Punch, it would take
employment away from 1,750,4S9 gas
workers in France, Germany, Holland,
Belgium, Switzerland, Russia and Tur-
KEY, with a saving of household expen-
ditures of fl2, 2,5Si,256 l3s "a annually,
while the fall in shares would bring
starvation TO 5i,il1 men, 1865
women (married and single), and 373,-
53S children under II years of age.
The amount of bloJling paper that
could b. turned out of British paper
mills, working two shifts week, dur
5nE - yearS, eight months, three weeks,
wou'd be enough to about soak up the
Pacific.
An eminent scientist has calculated
that ii the agricultural laborers OF
Great Britain would discard hobnail
boots in favor or pumps, the manufac-
ture OF the latter would provide work
for the whole continent of Europe, bar
one man The iron thus thrown aside
would suffice 10 make II armored cruis-
ers two-thirds the size OF the Black
Prince, with plates three-fourths of an
inch thicker.
Tokens for Lovers.
The quantity of hair exchanged an
nually between lovers in the United
Kingdom would suffice to stuff 999 gross
hair pillows or generate enough am
munia 10 iill 2l,203 carboys.,
III a man were TO walk on his hands
from London to Bourncmouth, ii would
take MN l13l longer than it would take
,en-pound salmon 10 swim from Var
stanger Ford in Norway 10 Calcutta
(via the SueZ canal).
lhc amount OF porrdge consumed
in Scotland during the last three cen
turios (including 1900 up to October II
won't tofm u lake two ana Onc-IuuEUu
times the size ~ Lock Lomond and
three and one-haif times as deep.
SupposlnG Il contract were made to
suspend linen buttons by single strings
aJ distances of six inches along the
branches OF all the palm trees in south
err India, II would take English manu-
tacturcrs nine years seven months three
weeks to supply the demand.
a month S accumulation OF the mus
tard wasted daily III London on the
edges of plates would suffice TO give
ST. Paul S beautiful coat of primrose
paint.
Natural Life Belts.
Two cocoanut husks form an ade-
Quate life belt ii the husks of all
the cocoanuts in southern India were
brought 10 TINS country and distributed
two husks per man. there would thus
be provided a sufficient number Of nat
ural life belts TO enable two-thirds Of
the population TO be swimming about
in the English channel at the same
time
Should some malicious person remove
the 10000 volumes in Coimbra library
TO Madrid, 1t would take CO.. students
carrying volume time and walking
20 miles day, seven years five months
three weeks two and half days TO
carry them back to Coimbra
If all the paraiIin lamps made in the
country in one year were brought TO
gether on Salisbury Plain and lit, the
heat thus produced, emanating from
the earth's surface, would be sufficient
in 1900 years nine months five days to
dry up all the minor courses on Jupiter,
Twenty million SIX hundred and sew
en- thousand and ten loads Of hay
would just be enough to block up the
Thames at Blackfriars