Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1862-10-04
Railways Of tho World.

Onlto0 0tatee, OF Whlch there are 2Vo6o,
in the free and but 11,11l, in the slave
States. The total cost of the entire lines has
been $l,192,3o2,ol5. Last year there were
only GAL miles built. against previous annu-
al average of 1000 miles. But although the
construction Of roads decreased, the traffic on
all the the northern roads was greater than ON
any previous year. The co dition of our
railroads is favorable at present.
The length Of railways in operation in
Great Britain and ireland is 1O750 miles,
300 miles of which were built last years.
Their entire cost of construction amounts to
1885, 100000 (about sl.755, 5,oOO,OoO) There
are 5,s0l locomotives. 15,076 passengers car
riages and ls0,574 freight cars used on these
railways. Last year they carried 163,435.
67S passengers. eO,ooo,ooO tons of minerals
and 29,5OO,O0o of general merchandise.
France has s,147 miles of railway. worked
by 5000 locomotives; $500 miles of new
lines are being constructed. Total cost of
completed lines 1922 100000.
Prussia has 3,162 miles in operation
Austria 3,165 miles; the other German
States have 3.239; Spair1, 1,450 miles; Italy.
1850 Rome, so; Russia, 2.2S9; Denmark,
262; Norway, g.; Sweden, 2ss; Belgium,
s55; Holland, 3Os; Switzerland, 600; Por-
tugal. 30; Egypt. 2o4.
In the British colonies, there are LAOS in
the East Indies; Canada, 1896; New
Brunswick, IT'S; Nova Scotia. 90; Victoria,
1882; New South Wales. 1875; Cape of Good
Hope. 26. Making total of l4,277 miles in
operation in the British Empire; the entire
cost of which has been $2,0s6, ,7656OO.
In Mexico there are 20 miles of railway
Cuba, 500; New Granada, 49a Panama
Railway;) Brazil, Ill; Chill, 1876; Peru,
so; Paraguay, 8.
The total length of railways in the world
is 69,733 miles, Their estimate cost is about
$5,s77 100000. Nearly one-half the length
Of lines belong to the United States and
one-fourth to Great Britain and Colonies.
The cost of the latter, however, is about twice
that of our railroads.
BRILLIANT Word PIcTURE.-T. Starr
King, in ono of his addresses. linned the Sc
cessionist in California and his sympathizer,
thus:
"A Secessionist in Northern State is an
orphan, forlorn and pitable. No, he is despic-
able rather. He has not the manliness to 60
and fight for the flag he hopes will triumph.
He stays and nourishes his wretched breath
where it is safe. Lie stays under tho flag he
hates, which generously protects him, to plot
against it by undermining patriotism. He is
perpetual spy. cunning and cowardly. He
measures accurately the pressure and fervor
of public sentiment, and talks against the
Government that blesses him, just to the limit
Of serious peril. his face is just prudently
radiant when news ~of disaster comes. lie
taps the public man as the woodpecker does
tree tor decay and worms, and finds who
has the tainted spots in their hearts that
makes them fit for him to vote for. And he
lives ON this month after month, loading his
table and perhaps filling his Golfers with the
bounty that flows to him under a flag whose
halliards he would like to cut, whose power
he would like to ha,nstring-a traitor without
the one CLEAN Of nobleness which the open
conspiratvrs show who set their life upon
the cast and 'stand the hazard Of the die
Is there character meaner than thisl Yes,
the pretended Union man who allows such
men to have influence who treats them
as an open. respectable power in the State
who fits his words to win their appreciation"
EARLY RIssRs-One Of our cotemporaries.
who doubtless loves to whisper soft things by
moonlight. and dose drsamily in the morning.