Amador ledger., 1908-11-27
ITEMS WORTHY
OF PERUSAL

1
Lancet argues that as the horse, un-
like the OK, is immune from tuber-
culosis, there is no physiological rea-
son against the use of 1t.
Cape Cod Is now an island, having
been made so by the deepening and
lengthening of the Annisquam river.
1t is claimed that as compared with
horses for certain work on farms, oil
or gas engines save from 20 to so per
cent.
Koshaburo t'utimatsu, resident of
the province of Chiokugo, Japan, is
said to be 10 years old. One of his
great-great- is living with
him.
There are only about 1900 flour
mills of all classes in Great Britain
and Ireland. Of these 1000 produce
hve-sixths of all the -four made in
the Kingdom.
Duke Carl Theodore. of Bavaria is
the only royal doctor in Europe.
Poor people flock to his hospital,
where they are treated free. He
charges only those who can afford to
pay. With the assistance of his wife
he has recently completed his 5,O00th
operation for cataract.
James Ten Eyck, the famous oars
man, coach of Syracuse, has been en-
ployed by E. Ii. Hartman to teach
his two sons to row.
In Brazil the railroads have seven
different gauges, ranging from feet
inches to feet 6 inches in width.
The narrowest road, the Antafogasta
and bolivian, is the most important,
and when completed will be 800 miles
long.
The longest multiple unit train in
use any where is said to be that
operated by the Metropolitan Dis
trict Railway Company of London.
1t is a nlne-coach train, 400 feet long
and will accommodate LOCO passen-
gers.
In advocating the closing of the
Franco British exhibition on Sun
days, a canon of Canterbury quoted
figures to show that the st. Louis
and Philadelphia fairs, which closed
on Sundays, made much more money
than the Chicago and Buffalo eXposi-
tions, which kept open on Sundays.
The latest addition to the carpen-
ter's kit is a self .chalkipg chalk line.
That there is money in pennies was
demonstrated by "a Philadelphia
woman, who died leaving an estate
of 500. 900 which she accumulated by
selling candies, etc., to children at
one cent package.
In Lyons, France, the people fare
just beginning to install bathrooms.
Last year Australia shipped over
$1,000 tons of rabbit meat to London.
The ruins of Pompeii, at the pre-
sent rate of excavation will not be
entirely uncovered until 1870.
OIL of jasmine, next, to altar of
roses, is the most costly of perfumes.
1t is valued at $3.50 pound.
1t is claimed that teaspoonful of
graduated sugar and three drops of
vinegar or lemon juice will cure
hiccoughs.
France has expended $40, 900 on
railways in East Africa during the
past 20 years. The brigand chiefs of
that territory have thus been brought
under the dominion of the French.
That fresh air is good preventive
of what is called catching cold," is
shown by the fact that we have fewer
colds in summer than in winter be-
cause we live more in the open air.
The Virginia plover makes the most
wonderful light OF any of the migra-
tory birds. Leaving its haunts in
North America it flies directly to the
coast of Brazil, covering the distance
of 5000 miles in 10 hours, which is
at the rate of 2O0 miles an hour.
1t is estimated that during every
minute of the twenty four hours g..
OOO,O matches are struck. AmerI-
cans alone use up 100000, 900, OOO, a
year. Some of the match plants are
very large, one on the Pacific Coast
covering 240 acres, with 80 miles of
railroad which supply the match
machines with 100000 feet of sugar
pine and yellow pine logs a day.
The per capita circulation of money
in the United States is placed at s35.
The rankest Kentucky tobacco con-
tains eight per cent of nicotine, while
the finest Cuban tobacco contains