Amador ledger., 1908-11-20
ITEMS WORTHY
OF PERUSAL


the normal this winter. Leading
operators have estimated cut from
70 to 30 per cent below that of any
of the last few season.
According to figures presented to
the Institute OF Electrical Engineers,
the net saving over steam by the use
of electricity on the railroads of the
United States averages s63S per mile,
which, IL applied to the entire rail
road system, would effect saving of
s13S, 500, 900 per annum.
1t is estimated that more than 65,
600, 100000 cigarettes we're smoked
last year in the United States.
Men have agreed to paint the inside
of the + irst Congregational church
at West Torrington, Conn, If the
women who are not cooking will sung
hymns for them and furnish a good
dinner.
Transportation facilities are more
inadequate today than at any time in
New York s history. The first omni-
buses, put in the streets in 1880, came
nearer to accomm odating the travel
ing public of those days than the
great network of railways does now,
for the demand for transportation
continually keeps ahead of the
facilities provided.
After 25 years of operation of the
postal savings bank of India the de-
positors number /, 1870, 900 and the de-
posits amount to SAG, ,223, 2S3
Among the latest horticultural pro-
ducts exhibited in England is a rose
so dark to be almost black. Many
gardeners are eagerly trying to get
blue rose; success in this line
means fortune.
The beet sugar industry is growing
in this country. Sixteen of the
states have factories for the manu-
facture of the product, with total of
"a such plants in the United States.
At Shamokin, Pr, five prominent
women, unarmed, broke into a poker
establishment, several surprising their
husbands.
Every piece of plate glass in the
world today is due to be broken with
in ten years, according to the law of
average.
The greater portion of the tele
graph and telephone poles of this
country come from the northern
peninsula of Michigan.
In recently built Italian steam
ship there is special cabin with a
dental outfit. dentist will be
carried in the vessel.
State laws require the American
flag to fly over schoolhouses during
school hours IN California, Oregon
and Kansas.
A hen attains her best laying capac-
ity her third year. She will lay in
an average lifetime from 30J to 500
eggs.
An elephants burden is from l, 800
to $500 pounds, and that of a horse
from 20O to 250 pounds.
The first English regatta took place
upon the Thames, between London
bridge and Millbank, on Friday.
June %. 1775.
has a record pendulum, its length
being two feet and the weight of the
ball 200 pounds.
In all the civilized countries Of
the world 60 per cent of the persons
over 10 years of age have to work for
their living.
Mrs Elizabeth Lehman of Mount
Joy, Pa, aged, 104. took her first
ride the other day in a trolley Car
and an auto.
The average lite of ship is about
twenty six years.
A race horse galloping at full speed
clears 20 feet to "a feet every bound.
Every shilling turned out by the
English Mint shows profit of nearly
threepence.
breathing exercises we're introduced
in some Parisian schools not long
ago, and beneficial results were soon
manifested.
The population of Canada is now
about 6.500. 600.
In Belgium a revenue of S65, 900 is
derived from roadside fruit trees.
In the matter of paper production
New York, Maine and Wisconsin rank
first, second and third, respectively.
A two-mile railroad bridge has
Eeen recently completed across the
| Cnlnmhia river in the stata of Maah-