The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-01-31

fhcts ms TO reputation. Commerce, Agri-
culture, Communication, Transporta-
tion, Social Progress and Literature--
There Were No "store Clothes" in 1900
The New York World publishes the
following remarkable compilation
showing in Il nutshell the great for
ward strides that were made in the
nineteenth century:
POPULATION.
In 1900 New York. Philadelphia. Bal
timore and Boston contained fewer
people than the present population OF
Rochester, N. Y.
There are sixty-two cities to-day
larger than New York was hundred
years ago.
In 1880 Chicago was an unsurveyed
swamp.
When the century began the centre
of population was eighteen miles west
of Baltimore.
Greater New York contains four
flfths as many people as composed the
whole republic in 1900.
In 1900 there were four large cities;
to-day there are 150.
Number of immigrants in 1900. 5000:
number in 1899, 311,715.
Total number of immigrants during
the century, 1S.500.000.
Total number of Indians who have
survived until the new century. 210-
900.
Chicago in 1884. n village in n will
derness; Chicago IN 1894, the Worlds
Fair.
Three times MS many people cross
Brooklyn Bridge every day as there
were in the city of New York in 1900.
President Jefferson presided over n
country of 100000 square miles: Presl-
dent Mckinley presdes over coun-
try of 3,602,99 square miles,
PERSONAL.
George Washington died before the
nineteenth century was born-D1cem-
Der IA. 1899.
Benjamin ID. Silliman, of New York.
is the oldest living graduate of Yale;
born 1906.
Sole survivor of the war Of 1912, Hi
ram Cronk, of New York, aged 100
years.
COMMERCE,
New York's exports in 1900, $1l,-
100000; in 1900, $46O,O00000.
First coal mine, 1906: first iron fac
tory, 1872; first cotton mill, 1872; first
stereotyplng, 1913: first gas, 1876 first
savings bank. 1916; first sewing ma.
chine, 1878; first steam-power press,
1923; first matches, 1920; first revolver,
1885, first gold from California, 1S4S.
In 1900 the first patent ever issued to
woman was granted-for straw
weaving.
No pins were made until 1S11-S1
paper
Total number of patents granted in
the last sixty-two years, 1,013,950
There are more people engaged In
manufactures alone than there were
IN the entire country in 1900.
Sugar consumed in 1900, none; in
1900, 10 pounds annually per capita.
Coffee imported in 1S00 none; coffee
imported in 1900, 900,OOO00O pounds
Business offices have grown from
two to thirty stories.
AGRICULTURE.
A hundred years ago there were no
farms west of the Mississippi; to-day
the Western wheat crop Is 5000, 900
bushels. or one-quarter that of the
world.
In 1900 domestic animals were few;
to-day there are 14000,000 horses,
100000 mules; 100000 cattle, no.
100000 sheep and 39,000,00O swine.
The early American settlers ate their
bread with lard or gravy; butter was
rare; last year America produced one
third of all the butter III the world.
In 1920 our cotton crop was S7O,415
bales in 1899 it had grown 20 II ,235,-
3S3 bales, or ninety per cent. of the
total crop grown in the world.
century ago farmers reaped their
grain with sickles, two acres being a
good days work
The plow of 1900 was "crotch
drag" the plow of the Western bo-
nanza farms is run by steam and turns
eight burrows at once.
COMMUNICATIONS.
First Atlantic cable, 1858.
There have been 21,000 patents
granted for carriages and wagons in
the last century.
The distance from Paris to Moscow
is less than that between New York
and Wyoming.
In 1900, 903 postoffices; in 1900. To-
900 postoffices.
When Erie Canal was opened the
news of 1t was carried $50 miles In
eighty-one minutes by the firing of
cannon ten miles apart. To-day the
news would come In one second by tel
egraph.
Number of telephones In 1860. none
number Of telephones in 1890. 1,124S46.
In 1900. one mail week; in 1900
one mail an hour.
TRANSPORTATION.
In 1900, twelve weeks to Europe; in |