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Show The latest English dictionaries COn tain nearly 500,000 different words. The average output of the wor,r, gold mines is now more than $350,0uo' 000 a year. More than GOO out 6f every ii00, workers engaged in the manufacture 0 silk and textiles in the United State are women. There are about 1,500,000,000 lnhabi tants on the globe. Of these 50,000,00 die every year, 137,780 per day, 5,55 per hour, about 90 per minute, or tare In every two seconds. The legal weight of a bushel 0 wheat is 00 pounds in every state i the Union. That of corn on the cob 70 pounds In all the states except Ind ana, where It is 68 pounds ; Mlsslsslj pi, 72 pounds, and Ohio, 68. |