The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-10-26
CHUNKS OF INFORMATION.

Its 3,155 miles from Washington to
San Francisco.
Gas was first introduced into the
White House in 1S4S.
The dome of the United States Capitol
is 3071l feet high. B
There are 101 different counterfeits of
national bank notes.
The new State Department has $50
rooms. and cost SIS, 900, 900.
Back OF the army is a possible Ameri-
can militia force of five million men.
/ The landscape architect or Capitol
grounds gardener, gets SIS, 900 per year.
The weight of the iron alone in the
dome of the Capitol is 8,0O9, 200 pounds.
There are over 1 800 men and women
employed in the Government Printing
Office.
assembled in Washington met in Eovem-
Der, 1900.
The Soldiers Home grounds near
Washington, embraces 800 acres OF land.
For seven years past breadstuffs alone
have brought more money from abroad
than cotton.
1t is said the distillers pay $50, 600, 900
into the treasury annually, and the
dealers as much more.
The Scott statue in Washington, which
is made OF bronze, weighs ], 200 pounds,
and cost $40, 900. E
The District of Columbia comprises
sixty four square miles, and lies entirely
within the State of Maryland.
Brewers, wholesale and retail liquor
dealers, and tobacco dealers, pay their
taxes to the general Government.
Pennsylvania avenue, from the Treas
vide and almost as smooth as an ice
pond. @ ~ Oh. a1ersihri GA
Since 1861. the American people have
ury built &c, 900 miles OF railroad the best
railroads son the whole in the world.
There is more money in the sub-treas-
at San Francisco than there is in the
United States Treasury at Washington.
The great bronze door of the east
front entrance of the rotunda of the
Capitol weighs 10000 pounds, and cost
$4,000, IL.
OF the domes to large buildings in the
world, the dome of the United States
Capitolranks fifth in height and fourth
in diameter.
The muster-roll of the United States
army and navy, show that in the war
between the States. there were enlisted
2,O4 900 men.
George Washingtons plantations on
the Potomac River, south of Washing
ton City, originally contained sou
acres. ,l-,.--- ~
1t is said that the capitol of the United
States is unquestionablv the largest and
finest building of the kind on the face
of the earth. 49,
The total volume of money in this
country NAV be set down at 500, 0O0, 900
in paper, $500, 0O9, 900 in gold, and $780,
600 600 in silver. T
The appropriation, made by Congress
from 1900 to date, for the erection and
remodelhng of the Capitol, amounts to
over SIS, 100000.
The 6O4,000 dead soldiers left 307 900
widows, who have applied for pensions,
as shown by the report of the Commits
sioner of Pensions,
The statue of General Mcpherson,
located in Mcpherson Square in Wash
ington City, cost $23, 500, and weighs
Z, zoe pounds.
When the war closed nearly. three
million men, who were serving in the
armies on both sides, were discharged
and returned to civil llfe.
The water used in the White House
for drinking purposes is conveyed to
the mansion by pipes from spring IN
Franklin Park, several squares distant.
1t can besafely estimated that at least
50 per cent. of the men discharged from
/ the army IN 1885, at the average age OF
/ 30 years. are now married
There are fifty-one and half acres OF
ground around the Capitol, which are
known IS the Capitol grounds and
cost the government 1854 ,iss.
The new reservoir which the govern
ment is now constructing for the water
supply nj Washington VIII have capa-
city for 100. 900 Geo gallons of water