The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-09-22
VOL. XxIx.-NO. At.


United States is but S25.
The worlds money forms very small
part of its wealth. The amount now in
use is. estimated by Mulhall as ESQ 600.
900 of gold, e801 900, 900 silver, 9s46,-
000, 900 paper; total C., ,437 ,0O0, 900.
In Denmark the value of real estate has
increased 9l92, 100000 in 81 years. This
result is due to the breaking up of the
large estates of the nobility and their pur-
chase by the peasantry.
The value of land in Great Britain rose
enormously during the Canadian and Amer
icau wars Of the last century, and increased
still further during the French wars, owing
to the demand for grain and its advanced
price.
Statisticians estimate that in Great Brit
ain there are 700 millionaire families. g.
$50 families "very rich, " 14S,250 families
'rich," 73O,500 in moderate circumstan
ces," 2,00S,O0O Struggling to keep up"
and 3,916,sOO poor.
In the number of houses Russia is second
to the United States, having I1,436. 900,
valued at S3,5O5, 900, 900, while France
comes third with 9,OSO,OOO, valued at ss,-
$4,000, and Great Britain has Z, 100 900.
worth S12, 2,120,000,000.
Of all the States New York has the
greatest number of savings bank depositors,
1,516,3S9, and also the greatest amount of
deposits, s5SS,425,421 Massachusetts
comes next with l ,131 ,2O3 depositors, hav
ing on deposit $369, ,526, 1856.
Mulhall estimates that the land in the
United States is worth S12,5OO, ,OOO, 900;
the cattle, 81, 800, 0,0OO, 900; the houses S14.-
2OO.OOO,OO0; the furniture, &c, $1,000
100000, the railroads, $40, ,O00, ,OO0, 600;
the shipping, s3OO,OO0,OOO; the total
wealth per inhabitant, 81 ,O5O.
In England 233 families live IN honses
which pay over 81, 1000 year rent; 9,214
pay between 9500 and 81 900; 8, ,6s3 nav
between s20O and $500; 101 ,94S between
95O and 91O0, and 3,624, ,6O8 pay less
than EGO or under 500 a year for the
houses in which they live.
Great Britain has 180, 900 miles of roads
which cost ego, ,000,0 900, and 5000 miles
of streets, which cost 960,000,00O.
According to the Bureau of Statistics
the United States in 1892 exported goods
and products valued at 81 ,075, ,81S,42O,
and the imports of the same year amounted
to 1897, ,O57,OO
The II greatest banks in Europe have
an aggregate issue of 9457 900, 600; specie,
9253 100000; deposits Eli, 400, 900.
Mulhall estimates that the total manu-
factures of the world annually equal in
value the enormous sum of S22, 100000.
The spare change of Great Britain, left
on deposit in the banks, generally without
drawing interest, amounts to So, 100000
900.
According to the census of 1880 the
value of house property in St. Louis was
placed at S160,000,000; New York, ST.
55,OOO,OOO.
The estimated value of all the lands in
Europe, the United States and Canada,
Australia and the Cape colonies is 917,-
05S,0OO,OO0.
Great Britain has the greatest sum in
vested in commerce, doing an actual bust
ness, in exports and imports, of 9740, ,OO0,-
900 year.
France, as shown by the window tax,
has 2,047 900 houses Of one window each,
3,658, 600 of two to four, and :, ,376, 900 of
five or more.
The value of the railroads in the United
States is greater than the combined railroad
valuation of Great Britain, France and
Germany.
Mulhall says that of our national wealth
S3l, l5O, 100000 are owned by native-born
Americans, being over six-ssvenths of the
whole.
The United States is first in value of
house furnishing and furniture, Great
Britain being second, France third and
Germany fourth.
In 1921 Great Britain had 3,572, 900
houses, whose rental value was EGO, ,OOO,-
600; now there are 100000 houses, rem
tai value e134, 100000.
The Japanese have 100 national banks,
with an aggregate capital of S35,000,0 900.
Of these So paid, in 1890, dividends of 10
to 20 per cent.
The highest price paid for property in
London until 1886 was 1,285 square feet
on Old Broad street, sold for a37 900;
FL ,260,00 an acre, or Sc 100000.
Statisticians say that the increase of
wealth in the United Statet during the past
30 years is without parallel in the history
of the world.
The first United States census, taken in
1870, gives the value of real estate at S479,-
100000; of houses and personal property
1t S141 900.
In 1860 the land of Great Britain con-
'tituted 81 per cent. of the country's wealth
md was valued at 9250, 100000. Land
vas then worth 95 an acre.
France comes next after the United
States in the number of depositors in the
aVings banks, having 4, 100, 600, and hav-
ng on deposit the sum of 1858, 100000
Germany has the greatest number of de-
'ositors in the savings banks, over 5000.
100, but the aggregate of their deposits is
lot given in the government report.
In Switzerland 360 inhabitants in the
900 have money on deposit in the saw
ngs banks; in Germany, 1S0; in France,
40; in Great Britain, 1876; 10 the United
states, 67.
Loring says that during 3S years in one
Western State, whose name he does not
i've, the number of mortgages executed
vas 100000, and their nominal value
'180,000,00G.
Immense as is the value of the gold
AIKEN from the California mines since the