Amador ledger., 1908-05-29
ITEMS WORTHY
OF PERUSAI.

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The timber output of Maine last
winter was 9O0,OO0,0O0, feet, and the
Indications are that these figures will
be about equaled this year. The
scarcity of labor prevented operations
to large degree.
The society for tho destruction of
vermin is an English organization,
with che object of warning on the rats
in that country.
The railroad stations of Berlin are
about to be provided with automatic
machines which, upon the insertion
of the proper coin, an umbrella will
be delivered. After making use OF 1t
the Umbrella may be returned and a
portion of the money recovered.
The Tooth anniversary of the open
ing OF the Port of Rio Janeiro,
Brazil, to international commerce, is
to be celebrated in that city next
year by national exhibition of
Industrial, pastoral and art products,
from June 10 to September I.
Wheat natures in Canada in from
ninety to 100 days.
The skin of muskrats IS largely
made use of in the manufacture of
the cheaper grades of fur coats.
iate wood of Australia has the
tensile strength of good cast iron.
The Lusitania has forty clocks
on board, all controlled by a master
clock in the charthouse.
A young inventor of Lyons, France,
is said to have solved the problem of
the transmission of electrical energy
without the use of wires.
The estimated cost of the Roosevelt
dam, which is part of the Salt River
irrigation scheme, has been cut down
by $1,000, 900, by the establishment
of government cement mill on the
spot
Switzerland is best supplied with
postoffices There is one for every GIG
inhabitants.
The Swiss railway companies have
adopted a method whereby all pass
engers applying for half-fare tickets
must be measured. A measuring ma
chine is part of the equipment of
each booking Office. All children
under two feet one inch in height
pass for half fare.
The most remarkable gold and
silver beetles are found in Central
America. Some have the appearance
of FURNISHED gold and closely re-
semble metal, while others are silver
color. Their market value is about
S35.
A factory in Amsterdam cuts 40U,
600 diamonds every year.
Women in Madagascar drape stheir
shawls precisely as the old Roman
senators did their togas.
1t is estimated that 5000, 600 teIe-
phones are now in use in the world.
Accident insurance is compulsory
among the workmen of Holland, but
other insurance is optional.
len per cent of the inhabitants of
the Philippines speak Spanish.
The bones of all flying birds are
hollow, thus combining the greatest
strength with the least weight.
Some 5000 or 5000 feet of nets
are stretched in the North sea at the
height of the herring fishing season.
Pennsylvania leads all other states
in the country in steam power, using
20 per cent of that used in the entire
United States.
Vanilla grows OH sort of elm bling
orchid, which is very plentiful in the
tropics.
The value of the famous "peacock 1"
throne IN Persia is estimated to be
between SIC, 900, 900 and Sl5, 600, 600.
The difficulties of sending wireless
messages during the hours of daylight
have been greatly overcome.
There are fish that never sleep a
moment in the whole time of their OK
I istence. Pike, salmon and goldfish
never sleep. There are other fish that
sleep only few moments each month.
There are dozens of kinds of les that
never indulge in slumber.
1t takes eight times the amount of
strength for one to walk upstairs that
it does to walk on level ground.
A caterpillar eats six thousand times
its own weight in its lifetime.
The Sahara Is not such a barren
place after all. Some time in the past
there we're nine million sheep in the
Algerian Sahara alone two million
onato on1 500 OO0 Ia 10 uoi Il