,An American lady computed not long ago that in tiio United States alone, half a toil of puro gold, equivalent, to 500,000ilo!., 13 t annually put as filling into, the teeth of the living. Inasmuch as none of this precious metal is ever extracted after death, the. shrewd calculator further reckoned that at the rate stated a quantity of gold equal to all that is now in circulation will, in the cours6 of 'j three centuries, be lying in the ground again.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 287, 28 August 1908, Page 10
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