Modern machinery makes it possible to generate one unit of electricity from 2.29 lb of coal, where as 4.90 lb were required ten years ago. One pair of sparrows multiplying for ten years without hindrance would number more than 275' billion descendants at the end of that period. The risk of being struck by lightning is five times greater in the country than in cities, and twenty times greater at sea than in a railway carriage.
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Evening Star, Issue 19762, 12 January 1928, Page 1
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76Page 1 Advertisements Column 6 Evening Star, Issue 19762, 12 January 1928, Page 1
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