Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1909-07-02
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80. 30 or more per cent of the metal.
In Austria most of the schools are
owned and operated by the state
governments under the supervision
of the federal minister of public In
struction.
Maine, in proportion to its area,
is the best supplied with surface
water of any of the states 1t has a
square mile of water to every ID
square miles of land.
Near Kodarma, India, $50 miles
from Calcutta, 100 hands are employ
ed by an American company in
operating mica mine.
Over $50, 600 has been appropriated
by the Brazilian government to fight
the spread of tuberculosis in that
country.
During the year 1908 more than
800, 900, 900 telephone messages were
sent in the United States, the num-
Der of instruments in service having
grown to exceed 100000.
Birmingham, England, has the
largest pin factory in the world.
1t turns out 81, 000,0 900 pins day.
At the close of 1908 New Zealand g
population was estimated at l,020, 600,
the death rate being 9.57 per thou
sand.
The oldest man in The world Is said
to be Jose Guadalupe AleTtd, of
Jalostitlan, state of Jalisco, Mexico.
According to the church records he
was born in ITO. He is now l39
years old and in good physical con-
ditlon.
With the exception of Belgium,
more bread is consumed per capita in
France than in any other European
country.
There are seven Smiths in congress
three in the senate and four in the
house. Michigan furnishes two,
Mary land, Texas. Iowa, California
and South Carolina one each.
A prize of SO, 900 has been offered
by the Mexican Academy of Science
for cure for typhus fever, like
prize for serum that will kill the
germ in the blood, while $1,000 will
be distributed among persons aiding
in solving the problem.
The hottest place on earth is the
| Arabian desert between Oman and
the Red sea. Scarcely any life is
known. to exist In the interior, and
even on the coast temperatures have
been recorded higher than any other
place in the tropics.
More than 400 different colored
dyes are produced from coal.
I In the United States there is an
average of one physician to each 7O9
persons.
Parliament has prohibited the sale
of white PHOSPHORUS matches in
Great Britain.
Ohio, Vermont and New York have
led in the production of maple sugar
continuously since 1850.
In Denmark there is a society es-
tablished by Frau Wlehe Bereny
which insures women. Women pay
on policy and if they marry before
they are forty they are supposed to
have had their moneys worth, and
the policy Iapses. A woman I'M
married after the age of forty re-
ceives an annual pension as long as
she lives.
The gloss can be restored to limo
leum by washing it in a weak soIu-
tion of glue and allowing it to dry
thoroughly.
Alcohol IS obtained from peat by
treating the fiber with sulphuric acid
and fermenting with special yeast.
By chemical process rubber is
extracted from leaves in rubber
factory at Sourabaya, Dutch West
Indies.
Silicide and boride of titanium,
products of the electric furnace, are
said to be as hard as the diamond.
Although Swansea is in the heart or
the anthracite district OF Wales, there
are no stoves in which to burn the
coal.
False teeth of ivory on "a plate of
the same material and held in place
by gold wire, were in comparatively
common use as early as 1000 b. q.
AS the result of the demonstrated
success of wireless telegraphy, the
British admiralty has abolished the
use of carrier pigeons.
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