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Nearly three millions of persons have deposits in the savings banks of New York City. Telegraph instruments in New York City tick off 23,000 measages each day in the year. The microbe population of a 12 -ounce piece of cheese has been any Manteds,at 5,000,800000. Stamps up to the denomination of $500 have been issued by the govern ment of Victoria, Australia, on average potato commece in An animal with the strength of a lon and the jumping capacity of a flea would hop one-third of a mile. The caissona for the foundation work of the ‘Singer tower, New York City, i to bedrock through =1. Hungarian has invented a wash ing machine which, with electrified water, will cleanse 300 garments in less than 16 minutes without the aid for soap. . On the largest tobacco farm in the world, a 25,000-acre affair near Am sterdam, Ga., is grown about a third of all the Sumatra tobacco used for cigar’ wrappers in the United States. One day recently a dog left tempor arily on Pitchwood Island. In Lake Winnipesaukee, N. H., swam a mile and a half to The Weira to join its mistress who had started on a visit ing trip. A Broadway dealer in candy says that he has sold sweets.in New, York City, Chicago,, Philadelphia, London and’ Paris, but that the New Yorkers consume, more per capita than the ‘people of any of the other citing, ’ about 100,000,000 heads of lettuce ed_annually.in the Jardins ma eee of.‘Paris, the greater part of which are shipped to London and Cologne during the ‘winter and spring ‘after being wrapped in paper and related..‘ ‘ Japanese” ‘ia not an easy... language even for the native ,born subject of the Mikado, but it is very difficult of ‘acqquirement. by the westerners.” It takes a Japanese child seven years, it is said,to learn the essential parts of the Japanese alphabet. The ‘residence of an ambassador is regarded as part of soil“d €~ country ‘whose flag It fies, and is therefore be~ yond jurisdiction of the United States government. Por esta Soe crantiabe
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Cranford Chronicle
Cranford, New Jersey, US
Thu, Oct 15, 1908
Page 15
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