Amador Ledger-Dispatch, 23 October 1908 — ITEMS WORTHY OF PERUSAL [ARTICLE]

ITEMS WORTHY OF PERUSAL

The 14 public libraries of Chicago OOUtnlU ],4.'sJ,ft:n volume?, not Ineluiling ruimpliiet.-i ami map*.

Charlotte in tho center ot the gientrst elpctticnl power development In tho South, or in the United Stales, except at, Niiigain I'nllc Tho Southern I'owei Company has n capital of 110,000,000.

Only 4 per cent of tho territory of (.heat lintiiiri la covered with forest*, and during the year IDOti that country imported lumber to the value of Bino,6ul,7r>o. tietinauy has still 20 per cent of Its tcirltory covered by forests, yet tbo lumber imports in liKHi amounted to BuliUß6,ooo.

Seventy thousand acres iv the West have been set npide as a reservation for birds. Wiint methods will ■be employed to prevent them from leaving the reservation and going ou tbo wnr path we do not know.

lv l!)0:> tho sum of 827, (508,000 wns expended by wmployers in Germany for tho direct nid of their employes. More than two-thirds of this waa given as voluntary contributions by private firms and individuals. It is eaid that Krnnco objects to having Hungarian rentes dealt iv ou the r'lench bourses in retaliation for tbe high duties ou I'reuch , wines in Hungary.

The population of (icrmnny is incteasiug at tbe rate uf 1)20,000 a year. About the middle ot this year it was

The clock at St. Cloud's, Shrewsbury, has a record pendulum, its length being 22 feet nnd the weight of the ball 200 po iihlf. 1