Amador ledger., 1908-11-06
ITEMS WORTHY
OF PERUSAL

The greatest drinkers of French
champagne are the Belgians.
The English lead In the consump-
tion of Bordeaux wines.
On and after October l, 1908, the
rate on postage between the United
States and Great Britain and Ireland
will be the same as present domestic
postage, two cents per ounce.
Indians III the United States own
about S35, 900, 900.
In Valdez, Alaska, when there is a
heavy fall of snow the fire department
is called out to clear off the side
walks.
AS memorial of the visit of the
Prince of Wales in 1905, it IS pro-
posed to build college at Lucknow,
India, at cost of 81 $50, 900.
Forty thousand cans are filled with
peas by machinery daily at factory
in Longmont, Calf.
Sixty thousand persons emigrate
from England every year.
During 1907 the following number
uf animals we're officially inspected
and slaughtered for food: Oxen,
575, ,67l; bulls, 427, 1872; COWS, l,Gl1,
366; heifers, over three months, 939, =
936; calves, up to three months, A.
3S4, ,942; hogs, 16, 49,, 983; sheep, o.
1856. l13; goats, 4S9, 749; horses and
other. solipeds, 135, ,239; dogs, GAP.
Five hundred and five dollars was
paid in New York Erecently for a
Virginia shilling dated 1774 and bear
ing the head of George Ill.
IN 1906 the value of the telephone
poles in this country was estimated
at S9,47l,l Ill.
Fifty thousand men are employed
by the New York Central Railroad,
the pay roll running from $4,000, QUO
to So, 800, 600 "a month.
One of the features of a Presbyterian
church in Chicago is "courting
room" 1t is provided with chape-
rons, cozy corners, etc.
Australia has s2O4, 600, 900 on deposit
in her postal savings banks and Japan
S64 100000.
Buenos Ayres is now giving munich
pal aid to mission work.
In England there is an organization
known as the Guild of the House of
God. Its sole duty is to care for
English cathedIals.
The only skyscraper in Rio de
Janelro is newspaper office and is
nine stories high.
During the year 1907 a briquette
company at Nagasaki manufactured
30, 900 tons of briquettes, nearly all
of which we're taken by the japanese
navy.
Raiz faction is a fibrous root which
grows in Mexico. 1t is known as
broom root and is imported in large
quantities to Havre, where it is made
into brushes and brooms.
In northwest Mexico the Huichol
Indians, who resist the efforts of
missionaries, have Noah's ark
legend in which they all believe.
-Four hundred thousand ounces of
gold are produced each month in the
YIansvaal.
The largest picture gallery in the
world is owned by the Duke of Port
land.
Ivy, instead of inluring wall, i'm
proves it by absorbing the moisture.
Although not operated on Sunday
the Wlnona Interurban Railway does
as great a business as any other line
~ proportion to mileage, With two
exceptions the officials serve without
pay aud the profits 90 to the support
OF the Wiuona School of Technology
at indianapolis
In 1928, when the first passenger
train in England made its trial trip
along the Stockton and Darlington
road. horseman with a red flag
galIoped ahead TO warn the people.
Ia order to enable them TO sink
wells aud build EN- mbankments TOR
irrigation purposes, the Indian
has made an appropria-
tion Of over 500, GOO, 600, which will
be Ioaua1 to tarmqr1