Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1907-09-13
ITEMS WORTHY
OF PERUSAI.

Less tnan oOOO people own all the
land of Great Britain.
Tobacco is served out to the italian
soldiers as part of their regular
rations.
England has 1000 golf clubs, with
30O, 600 members who use 500, QUO golf
balls per week and walk over the links
about go, 900, QUO miles per year.
The cloud formations known as
"mare's talls'' and "mackereI SKYE
are invariably three miles high. The
highest clouds are ten miles high, and
these are composed of minute PARTICLES
of ice.
The Lena is the stralghtest of all
the great rivers. to1 sou miles it
runs in almost direct line to the
sea.
Motors killed twenty-five on Lon
don's streets last year.
King Leopold has offered a prize OF
$50, 600 for remedy for the sleeping
sickness which Is wiplng out his SUBJ
jects in Africa.
Chill. which has the reputation of
b5ppiaRHhisfi .FspeaRf66ae 6od6fffsS,, mas over
5000 miles of railroad and II, 200
miles of telegraph.
English locomotives, which we're
built i'll the year of 1856, are still
used on Swedish railroads.
Ten million people have opened ac-
counts with the Post Office Savings
Bank of England.
Russia has 80, QUO miles of navigable
rivers and $50 miles of railroads.
At last accounts the river traffic
amounted to 80, QUO tons per year.
For IS steam will do the work
which would cost $500 if done by
hand.
There are 200, QUO, QUO copies of the
Bible scattered throughout the world.
About 48 per cent of all the crimes
committed is the work of habItual
criminals.
In all races the mans brain aver
ages 10 per cent heavier than the
brain of the woman.
Japan has 2237 banks, with 1926,
244, 1874 capital, Five new banks have
opened since February.
A birds wing is. in proportion to
its owners weight, twenty times as
strong as mans arm
The Danes seem most addicted to
suicide. Their average is 256 self
murders per million persons per year.
China and Japan produce 1900
tons of silk annually; but about 80
per cent of this is retained for home
use.
The blood thrown out by the heart
travels seven miles in an hour, or A.
292, 600 miles in a lifetime of 10 years.
The meteorites which hurl them
selves at this sphere add about 1000
tons to it's weight every three years.
Excluding about $4,000 small
vessels, the commerce of the world Is
carried on by 30, 100 vessels of total
tonnage of about %, 100000
About Is cents per square yard is
spent per year to keep the streets Of
Paris clean. Berlin spends 4 cents
for the same purpose.
The Paris Academy of Medicine
offers prize every year for the dis
coveIy of an absolute cure for tuber-
culosls. So far no one has won it.
The largest serpent ever measured
was an anaconda, which DIR. Gardner
found desd in Mexico. 1t was 81 feet
long, and it took two horses to drag
it.
Orders for -four from the Orient are
going to Manitoba because of the in
ability of the Pacific coast flour mer-
chants of the United State to fill
them.
In the United States 49, per 100, 600
are in prison on any given day, in
Italy pit and in the United Kingdom
As per 100, 200 inhabitants are in pri-
son.
The gross earnings of the Toxic
street railways are from $4,000 to 5000
day, and will probably reach So, ZOO
day when the flower season COM
mences.
Suffered day and night the tor
ment of itching piles. Nothing help
ed me until l used Doan's Ointment.
| 1t cured me permanently. Hon.
Ohm K. Garrett, Mayor, Girard, Ala
Ledger & Chicago Inter- Ocean, $3.50.