Amador ledger., 1907-07-19
ITEMS WORTHY
OF PERUSAI.

Europe has $4,000 newspapers.
Paris eats 45O, 600, 600 eggs yearly.
Four hundred tons of beet root will
yield from twenty-five to thirty tons
of sugar.
The average weight of a full grown
elephant is 5000 pounds.
improvements made in surgery have
been the means of reducing the
mortality of amputation operations to
6 per cent.
lakes are lowest in China and high
est in France.
London has over 1000 post offices
and the mail delivery amounts to
727, 10000 pieces per year.
Some forms of animal life are so
tiny that $500, 700, 900 couIdsbe put in
space of one-thousandth part of a
cubic inch.
The average rise of the Nile is a
little more than "a feet.
The total area of the British empire
is nearly II, 400,0 square miles, or
rather more than one-tifth of the
earth's surface.
Germany's army on a peace footing
is 6l0, 900 men, and that of France is
GOT. 900.
The fastest elevators run at speed
equal to about seventeen miles an
hour.
Of million girl babies born, S71, :
266 are alive at II months. Of the
boys 10000 fewer live through sthe
first year.
Japan is perhaps the only country
in the world where the fashions in
women's dress have not changed
materially in $500 years.
Great Britain is rich in MOSES.
Three are 800 varieties found on the
British islands.
The worlds population is estimated
at 1,4S0, 600, 900. persons.
The African possessions of the
French government amount to 3,SO5. :
UOO square miles, and those. of Great
Britain 2.7l4, ZOO, including Egypt.
The county of London covers rs. 442
acres, but the London police area is
443, 42l acres.
A grasshopper can Jump 200 times
its own length.
The Abyssinian army has 2OU, 900
men and its equipment includes fifty
modern guns.
When the .chimneys of the royal
mint at Berlin are cleaned about $1,000
worth of gold is taken from the SCOT.
Flfty-ive vessels are constantly en-
ployed in laying and repairing the
submarine cables of the world.
The deepest sounding on record was
recently made in the North Pacific,
where the bottom is $3.50 fathoms,
or little less than SIX miles. The
abyss is called Nero Deep.
A cubic foot of newly fallen SLOW
weighs 81 pounds, and has twelve
times the bulk of the same weight of
water.
There are some 15-inoh bulIfrogs in
the New York aquarium.
In Iceland the horses are shod with
horn, while in the Sudan they wear
socks of camel skin.
The smallest dog in the world is
bred in Mexico.
1t is estimated that all the inhabit-
ants of the world could stand com
tortably IN the space of eighty square
miles.
In some countries the rabbit pro-
duces seven families in the course of
year.
The giraffe, porcupine and armadiIlo
are entirely voiceless.
The United States has the. largest
foreign population. Argentine, where
II out of every 100 are foreigners,
ranks second.
The average weight of a pair of
elephant tusks is $50 pounds, but a
single tusk has been known to weigh
200 pounds.
Taken the sworld over the annual
average rainfall is 60 inches.
AS near as can be ascertained. the
Incorporated and unreserved public
lands of this country amount to 1872. :
238, 707 acres.
The Indian population on Indian
reservations is 291, 581.
The District of Columbia has the
greatest population per square mile
OF any other section of this country.
The figures are slightly more than
1889. In Alaksa there is only one
person per ten square miles. Rhode
Island is second to Washington, with
40I persons per square mile.
There are tobacco lands lin this
country, which are bringing their
owners yearly profit of $1,000.
The begging business is more thor
oughiy organized in China than any
where else. The beggar chief of Soo-
chow, who is the king of the Chinese
beggars, has an income which is said
to be $1,000, per year.
The decline of the tea trade is
viewed with alarm in China.
The tobacco plant has grown larger
and more protuse in the United
States than in any other country.
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