The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-05-29
SUNDAY. 1ssa-s1xTEEN
STATISTICAL FACTS
Herald's Compendium of Things
Out of the Ordinary.
All Sources Explored for Interesting and
Entertaining Points of Popular
Science and information.

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The entire coast line of the globe is about
10000 miles.
The Atlantic ocean is said to be higher
than the Pacific by 612 feet.
The total income of the Church Of Eng
lard is about 81 ,0OO,O 900 week.
In Wall street, New York, the failures
outnumber 1000 to the successes.
There are between 1000 and LOO law
yers in Boston, with scarcely business for
The density of population is greatest in
Europe, where it averages 81 to the square
mile.
Many watches make FIVE beats per second,
$50 each minute, 900 per hour, or 432. 900
per day.
On an average there are twenty-three
and one-half hours of sunshine week in
this country.
Three times as much spirits are consumed
in Scotland, according to the population, as
in England
Chronographs are now being made that
are capable of measuring TO the en-thou
sandth part of q second
British naval expenditures for this year
were fixed at S75,000,000, an increase of
$125, 600 over last year.
Berlin university is the third largest in
The world. Paris, with 9,2l5 students, and
Vienna with 6, 220 are larger.
Twenty-three thousand travellers re-
ceived hospitality in the snow-bound Con-
vent OF st. Bernard during the past year.
The Washington Office of the Western
Union Telegraph company has sent out
over 100000 words in single evening.
With some 5000 homicides IN the United
States, there were but 1913 legal executions.
Judge Lynch officlated at 1875 more.
In the United States one railroad passen-
ger in every 2,S00,000 is killed, but in
france the ratio is only one to every
"a, 100000.
company has just been formed in
Chicago TO rum buses on the bouleyards, pro
PEELED by accumulators or other electrical
appliances.
In Germany 27,4S5 children between 10
and IA years worked in the factories in
1890 In England, S6,499 under ID years
were employed.
The New York society for the Suppress.
sion of Vice has seized forty-four tons Of
obscene literature during the twenty years
OF its existence.
The families Of unnaturalized Italians
who were lynched at New Orleans brought
suit for damages Rggregating between
S1oOiOOO duu S%OU,UUU against Tue CITY.
What is believed to be the highest electric
| central station in the world is located at
Pontresina, in the Swiss Alps, the altitude
being 5000 feet above the sea level.
A writer in the Boston Transcript has
figured up that heaven contains 500. UO0. 600
souls against population in hell of rs, 600.
100000.
1t is estimated that the three best sugar
factories of California, the two in Nebraska
and the ons at Lehi, will each produce
100000 pounds of sugar during the pres
ent season.
The Salvation Army publishes thirty one
weekly newspapers and five monthly mag
azines in thirty-seven different colonies
and countries. with total annual circula-
ton of 45,O00,000 coptes.
There are over 400 fertilizer factories in
the United States, which produce more
than S20,000,000 worth OF fertilizers annu-
ally. Less than half century ago a fertil-
lzer factory had not been heard of.
The New York commissioners state that
12O persons were killed and LIS Injured on
railways in that state during the year end =
ing September 80 1891, as compared with
695 killed and ABA injured the previous
year.
/ The officers and sailors of the navy get
81, 100000, and the officers and soldiers of
the army Sl0,000,000 Uncle Sam spends
| $4,000 for horses for his cavalry and artil-
| lery, and pays his retired army officers a
million and half of good round dollars.
A Second Adventist of Hartford, Conn,
in his will set aside farm to his son with
the provision that it was not 20 be sold for
299 years. He expected tt at within few
years he would return to earth, and he did
not want his property squandered during
his enforced absence
Japan has now school system somewhat
similar to our own. Controlled by local
authorities are more than 2S, 900 schools, of
which 26, 600 are elementary. The teachers
number nearly $4,000, and the scholars
3,4lO,OOO, or nearly half the total population
Of school age. The total annual expense OF
the system is about 81, 000 600.
No fewer than Il, 600 600 acres of barren
land have been made fruitful in the Sahara
desert, an enterprise representing perhaps
the most remarkable example of irrigation
by means of artesian wells which can anv
where be found Algeria owes to this
method of cultivation that it is becoming q
most important wine producing country, as
may be gagged from the fact that it sent tC
France in 1856 10, 100000 gallons.
1t is stated that there are in France 45
OO0 goo hens, which, at an average price oil
2 francs so centimes per head, represent E
value of 112, 050,000 francs. Two millior
cocks, worth 100000 francs, are also sole
as food. The number of laying hens is pu
down at 81, 100000, and the annual value Of
their eggs is 1873, 100000 francs
Librarian Spofford says that our nationa
library now contains nearly 100000 bounc
volumes and 1000 pamphlets, and tina
the yearly increase Of books is from Is .O0(
to 10000. The library is now abominably
crowded, space allotted to it in the Capito
| hp fI11l
Probably the new building will not be ready
for occupancy for four years to come. i
is to cover three acres, and will hole
200, 600 volumes.
That Tired FeaIiu0