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Gleanings

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Parent Issue
Day
5
Month
December
Year
1902
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

Less than half the people struck by lightning are killed.

In California alfalfa sends its roots twenty feet into the soil and produces three crops of hay a season.

Of prime importance in the suppression of contagion in all its forms is an efficient system of medical inspection in schools.

In the Yukon territory debts are generally liquidated with merchantable (cleaned) gold dust, which is worth on an average $16 per ounce.

Within the last two years the Canadian government has constructed good wagon roads to all of the gold creeks within a radius of fifty miles of Dawson.

Some of the finest forests in the White mountains, including the northern slopes of Mounts Madison and Adams and part of Jefferson, are doomed to the ax unless the state or the nation interferes.