The labor world., 1907-04-20
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The rate of fatal accidents. in balloon
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1887. It was sixteen miles long. :
The rate Of fatal accidents in balloon
ascents is, less than per 1000.
The total number of stars down to
the fourteenth magnitude is about 5o,-
100000.
There are more than 1000 different
editions Of the Bible in the British
Museum.
The output Of Italian marble quar-
ries is a million and a quarter tons
yearly.
At the age of 20, the average man
loses six days yearly by illness; at
sixtyflve he losses twenty-six days.
The average railway earnings for
the world are 81 per cent upon the
capital invested.
About $1,000 hounds, including stag
hounds. foxhounds, barriers and bea-
giles, are kept in England.
At a depth of sixty-six feet the wa
ter of the Dead Sea is twice as salt as
it is on the surface, and at 1000 feet
three times as salt.
legally claim two days week of un-
In 1910 Austrian noblemen could
paid labor from all their tenants, who
were at that date practically serfs.
There are more able-bodied men in
the total population in the Western
States of the United States and Cam
ada than anywhere else in the world.
The Escurial, the royal palace near
Madrid, is SO large that it would take
four days to go through all the rooms
and apartments, the distance which
would have to be traversed being
about 120 miles.
The longest horse car line in the
world is in the Argentine Republic,
from Buenos Ayres to San Martin a
distance Of f1fty-four miles.
The tobacco monopoly has yielded
the Austrian government the enormous
net profit of $26,000,000 for one year.
Denmark has so perfect an educa-
tional system that throughout the en-
tire country there is not an illiterate
family.
In London there are 10000 municipal
employees; in England generally there
are close upon 100000.
The highest inhabited place in the
world is the Buddhist monastery of
Ilane, in Tibet, which Is situated about
1900 feet above sea level.
The long tails of the Shah of Per-
sia's horses are dyed crimson for six
inches at their tips-a jealously-
guarded privilege Of the ruler and his
sons.
There are $4,000 acres under cocoa
nut palms in Ceylon.
A kangaroo consumes as much grass
as four to six sheep.
Only 6 per cent Of all the paper
made is used for making books.
Sixty-four balloons were sent out
Of Paris during the Siege Of 1901.
Taking mans strength at 100, that
of draught horse is equal to 750
An Atherington, England, sweep,
named Joshua Folland, was sweeping
the chimney Of a house which had
been unoccupied for some little time
when, to his great surprise, he swept
down seven full grown, live wild rab-
bits, which he bagged.
The chamber in which the Irish
| peers used to sit in Dublin is still to
| be seen in the Bank of Ireland, almost
exactly as 1t was when Ireland had a
Parliament Of her own. The only diff
| ference is that a state Of George III
| has taken the place of the woolsack
| The old House Of Commons is now
used for banking purposes.
The soldiers Of the English Sixty
third Foot Regiment at Saint Mihie]
| have adopted a. baby which was found
asleep in a sentry-box recently. II
had wooden horse clasped In Its
arms, and pinned to its jacket was a
note saying: please look after my
little Jacques, whom I am unable to
support" Jacques was, therefore,
taken into barracks, where the men
promptly decided that he should re-
main. He will wear a little suit of
regimentals, and the soldiers will take
1t in turn to look after him.