The Washington times., 1894-05-20
LITTLE TYPES TALK ABOUT
NEARLY EVERYTHING

Minneapolis saws S6O,OOO,OOo feet of lumber
every year
Carpet tacks are consumed at the rate OF
| 5O,O0O,0UO q day.
The world annually raises s,laa 10000 bushels
| of grain.
Michigan has produced O. I2s 9is barrels of salt
| since 1851
Mail is distributed in 6s,4O3 post Offices in the
United States.
Iron and steel are made by native tribes in the
| interior of Africa
North Dakota has several wheat farms of 0,0Oo
TO 1900 acres each
Great Britain imposes tariff for revenue upon
about twenty articles
good sewing machine is supposed to do the
work OF twelve women
One pound of sleeps wool is capable Of pro-
ducing one yard OF cloth.
The most Of the trade of Cuba and Porto Rica
| Is handled by the English
Most of the trade of the Portuguese colonies
has fallen into the hands of England.
England commands the gateways of many seas
and most of the great CULTS Of the world.
The cash surplus of the whisky trust is 81 ,264, :
000. How much OF it did you contributed
The number of cigar factories in the United
States Is placed at little more than 33 ,oUO
Ceylon has 2, 2,760,000 population and does an
annual trade with Great Britain of e, 100000.
The use Of domestic wines in 1893 was 10 per
cent. greater than in the three previous years
Eight thousand tons of gold have been mined
throughout the world during the present GEN.
tury.
The cooper's craft was first employed among
the wine-growers OF Italy about the tenth cen-
tury.
The amount of candy consumed in the United
States every year has been estimated at 20 0tO
tons.
which is said to be the only one in the United
States
Russia In Asia contains 100000 square miles
of land suitable for pastoral and agricultural
purposes.
The seven colonies of Australia do an annual
business Of sl2 600 900. and have 10000 miles Of
railway.
The average cost of a fully-equipped lifeboat,
with transportation carriage, life belts, etc, is
$500.
The sugar cane product of Louisiana amounts
to 6O3, ,35S, ,0S7 pounds emitting the planters to
81, ,634, ,s6l bounty.
Out of 1892 answers to letters sent to Kansas
farmers asking if farming paid 1,25l answered
emphatically mo"
Krupp claims to have invented machine the:
will roll iron thin that it would take / 500
sheets to make an inch.
The first steam vessel on Lake Titicaca, Peru,
has Just been completed there, at an elevation
of 1900 feet above sea level
Gutta percha was first introduced into Europe
from Malaga in 1852. The annual consumption
now amounts to 100000 pounds
A Chicago dentist advertises a choice OF 160
Worlds Fair views with every tooth he pulls. He
expects 1t to prove a drawing card
1t Is estimated that the United States has pro-
duced two-thirds of the cotton consumed by the
world for the last sixty-seven years.
Nearly all the electrical, inventions, excepting
the lightning rod and the telegraph, have come
in use since the Centennial exposition.
Probably the first three-masted schooner built
in the United States was the William L. Bur-
roughs, which was launched at Greenpoint, L. l.,
in 1855
The annual salary of the Queen of England is
81 925 ,OOO the Prince of Wales gets 100000, and
the rest of the royal family somewhat smaller
amounts
Montana has produced nearly one-third of the
gold, silver, copper, and lead in the United
states, The mines of the state have yielded
over 500 000, 900