The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-06-07
Gathered From the Most Re-
liable Sources.
PUNGENT POINTERS
Many Facts and Figures, Statistical
and Otherwise, of General Pub
lie Interest, Collected for Imme-
diate Use for the Busy, Busting
Business Things in q
Nutshell as You Like Them.

Notwithstanding the fact that the
UnIted States raises vast amount
or potatoes, she IS compelled to I'M
pOlL equally as many more IN order
70 supply her markets. during the
year enulng June ~, 1900, tnere
were loo,o ,ooI bushels OF potatoes im-
ported Into the United States. There
were also pickles and sauces import
ed to the value OF $323,O0O.
A monograph has been invented
that IrlllS d lullaby which readily
puts babies to sleep, which saves the
mothers the trouble OF trying to do
the same thing.
Green or gunpowder tea is col
ored by mixture OF Prussian blue
and Chinese soapstone, which is
added during the process of firing.
The government has completed q
publication of 127 volumes OF the
civil war documents, winch has cost
91,115,UUO.
ror the month Of April, 1901, the
receipts from the war revenue act
amounted to $500, 1877 ,844, of which
SIO5, ,7O2, ,142 came from documen-
tary stamps, $94,361,1 ,128 from beer,
anu $45,S64, ia from tobacco.
The city Of Dayton, Ohio, is 70
have new market establishment
which is to cost, in round numbers,
$15O,0OO.
Thomas A. Edison, the electrical
inventor, who has been deaf for the
past year or more, refuses to be
cured Of his defect, as he says he
can think undisturbed, regardless Of
the fact that any amount of noise is
going on about him.
The Riviera, which is winter re-
sort lasting $50 days, has on an aver
age of 27,700 visitors annually, who,
it is claimed, spend f12,OO0,O0O.
-Four bills have been passed by the
New York legislature which have
for their objects better tenement
house regulations in the larger cities
of that state, and one of the bills
makes the landlord responsible for
disorderly tenants, sickness and dis
ease, if the same can be attributed
to lack of fresh air and light.
In the state of New York there
are 1879 labor unions with men,
bership Of 243,484 working men and
women. This is an increase Of forty
four organizations over the last quar-
terly report.
}. B. johnson has recently been
released from the government prison
at Leavenworth, having served a
twenty-four years sentence, lacking
two months. He was pardoned by the
governor, providing he would leave
the state, which he did. During the
time he was confined he spent SIX
teen years in solitary confinement,
and In that time in walking to and
fro in his narrow cell he wore out
three hardwood oak floors. In his
loneliness he learned to make pets
OF mice, cockroaches and spiders,
and taught them to carry notes to
and from the other prisoners.
According to a leading financial
journal Of Belgium, the negotiable
securities all over the civilized coun-
tries of the world in 1900 were equal
to $800,OOO,OOO.
The public debt of France in 1900
was $714,OOO,OOO; in 1915 it was
81 1,272,O 100000; in 1880 it was ST.
426,OOO,0OO; in 1848 it was S., 5,913,-
100000; in 1852 it was $685. ,OOO,-
900; in 1889 it was $21,251, 100000;
and in 1900 it was $3O,O5 900, 900,
which shows that during the century
the public debt of France increased
forty fold, while her population only
increased from 27,349,OO0 to 49,
$4,000, which is her present status.
In the current number of The
Common Carrier some interesting
figures are presented showing the
capitalization Of sixteen Of the prin-
cipal railway systems of the United
States, as follows:
Union Pacific ......................$2 1896, 10000
Grand Trunk ...................... 28O, 900 900
pennsylvania .....-.. ...... Isl 600
Atchlson' Topeka & Santa Fe.... ZIG, 900
southern Pacific ................... 19S, 900
southern Railway ............4.... 180, ,000 900
ERIE ....'...... ....... ........... III, ,0O0o 900
Canaolan Paclhc NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 149, 600, 900
Readlng ........... ....... lao, 100000
New York Central ................ 115, 900, 900
northern Pacif1c ................... lis, ,OOO 900
Baltimore & Ohio ................. los, 0,OOO
Southern Pacific ................ 1O1. 900. 900
Great northern .................... 100 900, 600
Missouri 1nn nno nnn.