Show INTERESTING FACTS ij There Is an alabaster mine In Italy that has been worked continuously continuously con con- lp since it was opened by bythe bythe bytho the tho Etruscans moro more than 2000 years ago Tho The temperature of ot the tho moon t is Ir said to vary ary from degrees Fahrenheit I when the sun Is shining shining shin shin- ing on it H to degrees deore-cs below zero when awa away from tho the sun Japan is estimated to havo o produced produced produced pro pro- pounds of rayon raon yarn arn this year which Is pounds more than titan in 1929 The rho American birth rate for 1929 1923 was 9 per 1000 of or population population- the lowest since comprehensive records on tho ho subject were ero started started start start- ed In 1915 by the tle U. U S. S bureau of cens census There Thero aro are about 90 SO lawyers Jawers and nearl nearly 20 doctors In the tho British house of ot commons In Scotland a n. drop op used to be regarded as ns sixteenth one-sixteenth of a liquid ounce According to tho tIm last complete newspaper census there thero are arc now 2427 2421 daily dally newspapers published In the United States I Flogging in tho the American army was not abolished until the same amo year tIre the Civil war began That form torm of oC punishment was officially oal- oal daily abolished in the thc navy in 1850 Nearly tons of or caustic soda aro are produced in th the United I States annually |