Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1891-12-31
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ephants have lived 200 years.

Elephants have lived 200 years.
France has . mine 4, 900 feet deep.
All trees are evergreen in the tropics
China has only forty miles OF rail-
road.
Canaens were first used in the year
1912.
The biggest diamond is worth $2,-
OOO. 900.
There are 100000 blind people in
Europe.
Potatoes were introduced in Ireland
in 1850.
North Dakota has a 25O,OOO acre
barley farm.
The moon is said to move 8, ,333 feet
per second.
The cemeteries of London cover
2 900 acres.
Musical notes as now used were in
vented in 1880.
One-half of the people die before the
age of sixteen.
OF the 1000 policemen in Chicago
1 ,555 are Iri shmen.
1t takes nearly 5000 silk worms to
produce one pound of silk.
More people born in Vermont reside
outside OF the state than in it.
Some insects are in state OF matu-
rity thirty minutes after birth.
Streets in Chinese cities are not often
more than eight feet wide.
More than two out of every seven
survivors OF the war are dead.
No one has ever gone over the Falls
of Niagara and escaped death.
Only one couple in IL, 500 live to
celebrate their diamond wedding.
Alexandria, Ind, is to have a plate
glass mill to employ 1000 men.
Fifty thousand Christmas trees were
sent from Maine to New York this
season.
At the present rate of increase the
population OF the earth will double
itself in 26O years.
The next leap year will be 1892
Four years later, 1896, will also be
leap year, but 1900 will only be an
ordinary year, with 365 days.
Iowa, 331, 562 bushels; Illinois, 24l, :
O76, 900; Missouri, pol JIG, 900; Kan
sas, 16S 1868, 900; Nebraska, las ,O04,- :
600; Indiana, 116, ,49O, 900; Ohio, 96,-
100000; Texas, SO, ,122, 900; Ken
lucky, S6,040,00O, and Tennessee,
81, ,S24 900, are the ten leading corn
growing States.
The actual weight OF paper money
which the Treasury sends by express
every year to all parts of the country
is in the aggregate enormous. Since
July it has dispatched $3S 900, 900,
nearly all of it's small notes, to the
South and West for the purpose of
moving the crops. The banks lend
this cash to the farmers on whatever
they grow, and thus the products of
the field are harvested and shipped.
Hon. Patrick Walsh of Georgia,
president of the Augusta Exposition,
has written letter to President Har-
rison in response to a request for in
formation in regard to the industrial
progress OF the South, in which he
says: "Ths south is developing rap
idly. AID her manufacturing possibili-
ties cannot be exaggerated. The
South's cotton mills used last year
over 10000 bales OF the 2, 100000
consumed by the Uunited States. In
1880 the South took only 100000
bales. OF the 5000, 900 tons OF iron
produced last year the south contribu-
ted 2, 1000, 900 tons, or more than the
entire production of the Union in 1860.
England fell behind our country last
year 100000 tons. 1t is one of the
most encouraging evidences of the
Souths' industrial progress that she
produced last year nearly one-fourth
the amount of iron produced in Great
Britain. The figures given are approx
mately correct. The South's future
for the manufacture of cotton is as
sured. Her production OF iron and
the manufacture thereof afford profit
able fields for investment"