The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1896-01-16
CuriOsities of War.

On January 1, 1895, the armies Of
the world included 4,2o9,ooo men.
On peace footing the regular army
of China comprises nearly 100000.
Great Britain owns 3,212 cannons,
France, sara, and Germany, 5,92o.
The total cost of our navy during
the civil war, 1S61-65, was s3I2, 2,ooo,-
900.
After the great battle of Canna 52,-
312 dead men were found on the field.
On July I, 1895, there were 26I,-
900 men serving the navies of the
world.
The Jews war was the twenty years
war between France and Algeria, 1927
to 1S47.
The largest Krupp guns have range
of seventeen miles, and fire two shots
minute.
Switzerland has population of less
than 100000 and a standing army
of 10000.
During our great civil war 6I,362
men on the union side were killed
outright in battle.
In time OF war France reckons on
putting out $40 men TO every 1000 Of
her population.
In our celebrated "war with Tripolt,"
| 1904, the United States did not lose a
single man.
1t cost the government at Washing
ton S345, 543, $50 to clothe the Fed
eral army from 1861 to 1865.
The Queen Of England can declare
war without consulting her ministers
if she wills so to do.
At the present time all Europe is a
well-armed camp and has SO been for
more than quarter of a century.
The war of the Lovers was the sew
enth religious war of France, waged
between the years I 1576 and 1878.
The first standing army of history
was that of Macedonia-about three
and half centuries before Christ.
The most expensive army of the
world is that of Germany, which cost
from SS6,ooo,ooo to sIo5,ooo,o 900
per year.
France boasts of a navy of 4o8 ships
of 100000 tons and 612,ooo horse
power and 80 others in process of con-
struction.
Since the Mannlicher gun came
into use the ratio is four killed to one
wounded-just the opposite to what it
formerly was.
The Forum: gives figures to prove
that the vaunted earned peace" oi
Europe cost the people more than ST.
900, 100000 per year.
Britain brags that the guns now used
by her army will send bullet through
four ranks of men at distance of 45o
yards.
1t is estimated that over 1900, ,coo,-
900 human beings have perished in
the wars OF the world since the opening
of the Christian era.
The great gun factory at Washing
ton-one of the largest in the world
employing 1900 men-turns out gun:
valued at $50, 1000 apiece.
J The Italian navy is composed Of 275
war vessels of 329,ooo tons, and 500
900 horsepower, including some o
the best battle ships of the world.
| Wnen Germany warred agains
France in 1901, she put 1,oo3,ooe
troops in the field. In the same wal
the French employed 10000 men
! The Russian feet comprises I73 wal
vessels, exclusive of the Black sea squad
ron. These vessels show an average
displacement of 1900 tons.
One of the expense items of the lat
war, as shown by the books Of war de
, partment, is the s97,o31 which it cos'
to capture Jefferson Davis.
The statement issued by the treasur.
department on January J., 1880, CAV
, figures showing that the total cost G
f the war of 1861-65 was exactly Sc,
189,929,9oo.
President Lincoln made fourteen
different calls for troops, asking for a
aggregate of 2,842,74S men. OF tn
. above number he succeeded in obtain
, ing 2,69o,4o1 men.
!, Every State in the union furnishe
, some federal troops during the val
, Louisiana, 8,224; Mississippi, 54s
, Texas, 1865; Florida, I,29o, and eve
y Alabama furnished 7,576.
If the armies of Europe should marc
, at an Smile gait, five abreast, fiftee1
y inches apart, it would require min
and one-half days for them to pass
given point.
Ifthere should be general Europea
war, as many anticipate. the daily e.
: penses of carrying on the same will b
about s7o,ooo,ooo. Between I78
;, and 1875 Napoleon lost 2,a5o,oo
;. French soldiers in his attempt to COZ
IS quer Europe.
is There has been a decided change
|, the weather the past few days, but nj