The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1898-08-13
Do You Know It 2

Russia has "A, 900 coal miners.
France leads in egg production.
Venezuela has 10, 900, 900 cattle.
Indiana makes glass monuments.
Texas has 3, 260, 000-acre ranch.
Finland boasts of women bricklayers.
Texas has 6, SIS, 900 acres eff cotton.
A word cabled to Manila cost So. 35.
Uncle Sam is first in coff ee consumption
Newark, n. j., tans 1000 hides daily.
San Francisco has a Chinese telephone
girl.
The world S railroads employ 5, 600, 900
people.
The Philippines have considerable cop
per.
Mexico's oldest cotton mill was started
in 1868.
Chillicothe, Ohio has women car con-
ductors
A japanese sky scraper is a three-story
building
The world telegraph lines stretch A.
9O8, O2l miles.
Atlanta has abolished the office of po-
lice matron.
Not nail is used in Japan house,
construction
War has increased the price of sulph
from $22 to $50 ton
Cashmere shawls take upward of eight
months to manufacture.
Lake Superior mines output this sea-
son was 1000, 600 tons Of ore.
Production of pig iron in Germany in
! April, 5S3, AS tons; United States, L.
| 600, 900.
England mail department earns a profit
of $40, 900, 900 annually.
The acts against the importation of pris-
n-made articles into Great Britain and
her colonies are being strictly enforced
The stocks of cut meats at the four
principal packing centres are 81, ,000,O 900
pounds, against 27O, 600, 900 last year.
The cost of railroads all over the world
thus far has been $50, 685, 900, 900, and
it is estimated that the street railways cost
50, 500, 900, 900.
The Suez Canal net tonnage declined
660, 910 tons in 1897, compared with
1896. The British percentage of the to-
tai tonnage fell from us in 1895 to 68
| III ICOO W VI y III 1OJI
Ireland has long enjoyed the primacy
in linen manufacturing, but threat has
arisen against it in the Far East Japan
is in the field or at least intends to enter
as a competitor.
San Francisco is the banner port OF
this country for the importation of opium
for smoking purposes The importations
last year aggregated 121 ,4O1 pounds, and
the duty of Sc pound amounted to $728,-
| 400
The May exports of corn were larger
than those of any month in the history of
the country, and the total exports for the
fiscal year, over 200, 900, 900 bushels,
will be more than double those of any
preceding year except 1897, and largely
in excess of that year.
The supply Of spruce in Europe is even
now becoming exhausted, and Canada,
says the Montreal Star, will succeed to the
position of paper producer for the world.
There is now demand in England for our
ground wood pulp, and it will grow rapidly.
The Gafney (S. CO. Manufacturing
Company is building two-story addition
to it's cotton mills 1t will be 80 by IS
feet, and will be fitted up with twisters.
The new carpet mills, which are to be 123
by II feet, besides offices, engine and
boiler rooms and dyehOuse, are now being
erected.
The latest addition to the iron -produc-
ing districts of Lake Superior is the great
l. Il Il.
II, $50 tons, and at the close of 1895
headed the list of ore producers on Lake
Superior, having shipped an approximate
of 2, $50, 900 tons of ore
DR.. Strong declares that the merchar-
disc carried by rail in the United States is
double the amount of land carriage of all
the other nations of the earth collectively
This means that ''the 20, 900, 900 people
Of the United States transport twice as
much merchandise as the remaining L.
400, 900, 900 of mankind. -
The largest cargo of wool ever received
at Boston arrived the other DAY on the
British ship Commonwealth, from Sydney,
n. S. w. The vessel had in all 1921
bales of best quality of greasy Australian
wool. The weight of this big amount of
wool is close to $500, 900 pounds, and
values duty paid about s8OO,OO
During May 80 vessels were launched
from the Clyde shipyards, with a tonnage
of Al, 1884, compared with % vessels and
33, O1O tons in May, 1897. The output
of new shipping on the Clyde in the past
five months embrace lis vessels, aggre-
eating 100, 233 tons, compared with 81
vessels of12O, 573 tons, in the same period
of last year.