Amador ledger., 1908-11-27

for the past III years.
It is proposed to establish a postal
and telegraph college in Pekin, with
Chinese aud foreign teachers, for the
purpose of training young men for
positions in these departments. The
annual expenditure Will be about S46,-
00O in gold.
The Cherokee Indians, as a nation
or tribe, are the wealthiest people In
the world. The Doki Indians in
Canada are to be made rich by the
sale of their pine lands. The total
revenue from the sale will approx
mate 100000, and some families
will receive as much as $40, 900.
Because of lower prices paid for
labor, Americans cannot compete
with Germans in the manufacture OF
crystals for watches. The glasses are
made by hand.
More than half the people of the
world live In countries bordering on
the Pacific Ocean. These countries,
exclusive of the United States, have
a population of 0O4, 1863, 600.
In South America there is one
species of palm which has a leaf
measuring fifty feet long and twevle
feet broad.
There are 6l9 bridges and viaducts
and 40 tunnels on railroad 30 miles
long, which runs through the noun
talns of the North Adriatic Sea.
During 1907 the United States pro-
duced %, ISL ,361 tons of pig iron.
Electric meat saws, driven by cleo
trio motors, are IN use in many up
to-date butcher shops.
During the year 1907 the fishing
industry of the Pacific Coast exceed
ed S26,000,000. The pack of canned
salmon during 1907 for the whole
coast was A ,Ol5, 1863 cases, as compared
with 3,9l7, 3l6 cases in 1906. The pack
in Alaska was exceeded in only one
other year that of 1902.
cuEic foot of rain water weighs
sixty-two pounds eight ounces, and
a cubic foot OF ice tiftysev pounds
and eight ounces.
The state of Sac Paulo, Brazil, has
organized a company for the purpose
of conducting propaganda of coffee
drinking IN Europe. Coffee houses
will be established in London and an
effort will he made to change the
English appetite from tea to coffee.
Names lobster catch for 1907
amounted to $1,000, 462.
New York City and state received
their names in l644 in honor OF the
Duke of York, afterward James ii of
England.
France has ll,315, 600 families of
which l, 804, 100 have no children.
The cheaper grades of coats are
largely made from the skins of musk
rats.
1t will soon be necessary to double
the cables between Japan and Man
churia. One thousand messages a
day pass over the present wires.
Ink for rubber stamps is made of
aniline dye mixed with gIycerine.
There are 1927 volumes in the
Slavonic section of the New York
public library.
The year-old spanish Crown Prince
has already been enrolled as an officer
in a regiment.
Four hundred million hrecrackers
were imported from China this year.
During the year 1907 Germany
printed 30,073 new books.
Only little more than half the
land surface of the world is fertile.
Deserts cover "a per cent of the
earth's surface and the polar regions
a 1888. 900 square miles.
Ginger, which grows wild in South
east Asia, is extensively cultivated in
South America and the West Indies,
particularly Jamaica. 1t is the dried
underground stem of the plant that
IS used.
There are eighty-three species of
mosquitoes on the canal zone.
Acorns for planting purposes are
shipped from Tennessee to the North.
They sell for as high as "a busheI.
Dew is influenced by color. 1t falls
thickest on board painted yellow,
but not at all on red or black.
Only blind beggars are allowed on
the streets of Madrid.
Last year Canadian waters yielded
about 100000 Holsters. About halt
are canned.