Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1907-09-27
ITEMS WORTHY
OF PERUSAI.

Jul VI every lUUU live by SeafarlnG.
The next best average in this parti-
oular is in England, where there are
IL per every 1000.
Argentina has &c, 72O-acre wheat
field.
Twenty -seven thousand vessels enter
the port OF London in the course of
year.
There are about $1,000 Chinese in
the Transvaal gold mines, which Is
giving the Britlshers some concern.
] The population of London is rapid
ly reaching the 1000, 900 mark.
The ancient Egyptians used a form
of blast furnace 1000 b. G.
mburg is said to have a fire re-
cord larger than that of any other
city in the world.
lndia's exports have increased 441s
per cent In ten years and her i'm ports
4S1a per cent.
King Edward has a collection of 10
curious walking sticks.
The mandril baboon has the most
brilliant colorings of any quadruped.
1t shows blue, red and purple of the
m ost vivid tints.
Palestine has 100000 Jews at the
present time.
Canada's trade with this country is
three times greater than with the
mother country.
The Ordnance Survey DEPARTING
of Great Britain makes use of cameras
carrying plates 42x3O inches.
France has NO old-age insurance
measure, but large amount is
annually spent in relief to aged
natives.
The Austrian government gives her
aged natives pension of nearly 81. so
per week.
The first-class railroad fare of
Belgium is the lowest of all the
worlds railroad services.
The third-cIass passenger service of
the English railroads is constantly
increasing 10 popularity at the ex-
pense of the other classes.
Paris has 46, 933 telephones, or
about one instrument to every fifty
seven inhabitants.
Hamilton, Ohio, has 6O-cent gas.
Key West has salt water fire and
sanitary flushing system.
A we'll at New Burlington, Ohio,
yields both salt and fresh water.
Steel piles are now economically
cut off by the use of the electric arc.
Niagara Falls as a power generating
plant Is worth SAC, 900. QUO per year.
The electric clothes dryer Is now
being put in the houses of the luxuri-
ant class.
Nevada seems apt to forge to the
first place in the production of preci-
GUS metals.
Colorado, Montana and Utah have
shown decided decline in the pro-
duction of precious metals.
Architects in many instances are
specifying electric plate warmers in
new houses being constructed.
The steel sleeping cars which the
Pullman Company Is building Will
weigh % per cent more than the pre-
sent cars.
The Edison Company of Milan,
Italy, is at the head of the largest
hydro-generating syndicate ever form
ed in that country.
The record of the six ducks which
laid POT eggs between March 4 and
May II is beaten by the performance
of four ducks belonging to Mr. Albert
Allmutt, Wittenham, Abingdon. In
the same period they laid 240 eggs.
Electricity is now being largely
used in the bookbindlng industry for
embossing and such work. With the
aid of the current it is possible to
make 4S0 impressions per minute,
which more than atones for the in
creased cost of the heat.
The English people eat more butter
than any other nation. The average
is ID pounds per head per year.
The largest sum OF money ever paid
for a collie was paid recently to an
English breeder, Mr. Mason of South
port, when he received s6250 for the
champion, Squire of Tytton.
Each person in the United States
uses ten matches every day.
The highest elevator service IN the
world is that at Burgenstock, noun
tain near the Lake of Lucerne, where
tourists are raised 500 feet to the top
of vertical rock.
But one EngIishman in four earns
over So week.
A Scottish bishops salary is only
SO, 600 year.
The Japanese bath is always heated
to ITO degrees.
The uniform of a British cabinet
minister costs $500.
lola claimed that tea was the best
intellectual stImulant.
Every male and female citizen of
Denmark over GO Is allowed a small
government pension.
Two colored women run a successful
in the Congo Free State,
King Leopold backs them.
Along London's busiest street, the |
Strand, LOCO vehicles an hour pass
throughout the afternoon.