Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1908-12-18
ITEMS WORTHY
OF PERUSAL

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lug the past 10 years.
Berlin's new Peoples opera house
is to cost 81, OO0,O00. The best seats
will cost S71a cents and the cheapest
1919 cents.
During the next 16 years Italy ex-
poets to spend in building new rail
roads and extending old ones 5lO7,-
600, 700.
Many match factories in Kobe and
Osaka, Japan, have been closed down
because of the depression of trade in
China due to the decline of silver.
The industry is in a critical condi.
ton.
Enormous sums of money have been
invested in tho empire of Japan tor
electricity. Every city of note
possesses an electric System of tram
cars, omnibuses or motor cars and
almost every important place or
pleasure resort is connected with the
main cities by one of the means of
locomotion mentioned.
Horses in Iceland are shod with
sheep horns and in the Soudan with
socks made of camels hair. Not long
ago a German invented a horseshoe of
paper, prepared by saturatlng with
oil. turpentine and other ingredients.
The layers are glued to the hoof until
the .proper thickness is obtained.
The shoe thus made is durable and
lmpenetrable by moisture.
In the Russian army tests of falcons
for carrying dispatches in time of
war have shown that their speed is
four times as fast as that of the
carrier pigeon.
Canada's shipping shows the first
gain since 1878.
At Ellsworth, Me-, $500, 600
horse power dam is being constructed
in the Union river at a cost of nearly
$500, 900.
A breech loader called the Ferguson
was IN use in the Revolutionary war.
The first United States patent for a
breech-loadlng musket was granted to
Thornton q Hill of North Yarmouth,
Mass, May u, 1911. The first sue
cessful breech-loading shotgun was
that OF Lefa 1cheauX, invented about
1852, following many impractical de
vices.
In good beet-root there is an aver.
age of Y per cent of sugar.
There are about 5000 lawyers il
New York and a like number O.
actors.
According to the customs service
the population of China is 439, ia,
900.
Onethird Of all the children Eo1r
in New York die before the age of 3.
During the year 1906 in the Ameri
can secondary schools there were 925,
600 pupils-742, 600 at the public
schools and 1873, 900 at private schools
According to j. Cadenbach, a Ger
man inventor, the piano improved
and its sound increased by setting
wooden cups into the back of the
sounding board.
Copra and ivory, brought from the
mainland, and cloves form the princI
pal items of export from the island o.
Zanzibar and Pemba.
The total area of the United States
Is 3,002, $40 square miles and that O.
Canada 1903, 800 square miles.
For use in the collection of Letters
the Mexican government is importing
tricycles from Bohemia.
The eyeilds of the average man, ac
cording to estimates, open and clos
1900, 600 times each year.
Furnace Stag is to be manufacture
into brick at BeIlefonte, Pa.
The British admiralty, in order t.
reduce the number of accidents Of
warshps, proposes to soool the maya
, zines with refrigerating plants.
Long before the invention CT print
ing, regularly prepared manuscript
! sheets were circulated as newspaper
in.China, Rome and Venice.
) A New Yorker of long experience
says the hardest people to collec
: money from are those who hav
J none and those who have plenty of it
The Tayo of Toxic says the "whit
peril' is to the west. 1t says Chin
J and Japan should combine to kee
! Americans and Europeans from cor
nering the industrial and commercial
) markets in the Far East.
Experiments with American cor
and sorghum are to DO tried next yea