The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-10-25
Tersely Told Facts
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trees to make 800. 000.6a6 spools a year.
about which are ultimately wound 5c.-
ooo.oOo-oOo yards Of thread.
New York has had eTty-hve United
states Senators in 10 years.
Australia has more churches per cap
ita than any other country. She has
no churches to every 100000 people; Eng
land has ia. and Russia but So
One-half the worlds production OF
conee comes TO the United States Wa
/ pay over A,co0.0OO week for our cof-
Fee and send the money out Of the
country Germany and France together
consumed last year only half as much
as we did We consume our 500 600, 600.
or about ten and one-haIf pounds
apiece. every year. Most OF this coffee
comes from South and Central America.
some from Porto Rico, the Philippines.
and Hawaii
The United Kingdom has increased its
export trade but IA per cent since 1877.
Its population has increased 30 per cent
In the same time. Il exported to the
! United States and Germany $3.50. 900. 900 /
worth of goods in 1872. and only $685.
100000 in 1902.
In India nearly $500 people die every.I
year as result of snake bites.
1t is figured out by some one that the
average travelling man, preacher or
teacher, talks 1900 words a day.
Some statisticisn has figured that
there are 100000 Smiths in the United
States. Three thousand are employed
by the United States Government, and
nineteen Smiths die every day. In Newt
York alone there are 126,Oo0 Includin9l
the Smythes. the Schmidts. Srnidts. and.
other variations. the family is roughlyt
estimated to comprise 1000, 900 in this
country,
There are in round numbers $500, 0o0s
telephones in use in the United States
Their use has increased ten fold In thai
past six years. There are nearly go
600 telephones In farm houses
There are q. 400 publishing houses in
the United States. with a working cap 1
itaI Of 1914. 100000. The census figures I
show US that in 1850 the value OF the
product OF the industry was $s47. 055. 600.
TO produce which involved an outlay OF
$50, 100000 in salaries for officers. SIS Co.,
600 for wages. SIS. 0oO. 600 for rents. taxes.
tNN-s anu PeAsv-ysyyJ IDT materials. SUD-
plies. and freight; 1890. 100000 pounds OF
paper were used last year, and 80 per 4
cent OF that went to the newspapers.
London's social condition is Distress
ing Inside the so-cailed Outer Belt Il
has pauper population OF 1G7. 500 souls.
and this figure does not include Migrants
or the insane poor. Twenty-One per
cent of the entire population over sixty
five years Of age. exclusive again OF va
grants or insane. are paupers.
The United States has gone into the
propagating business to the extent OF
Matching and distributing nearly 1901
ooO.OoO FISH a year.
According to an English authority. we
eat more than any other people IL
takes q pence a day per capita to feed
US; the Briton grows fat on Is pence. the
German on q pence. a Frenchman on
IS. and an Italian on 3 The same au-
thority tells US that we work and pro-
duce in proportion to our eating. Our
annual exports are about in the same
proportion But we are not as sweetiy
inclined as our British cousins. they
eat seventy pounds OF sugar a year and
we but sixty-seven. per capita
We export over 500 900 worth OF coal
year. France produces about 34.0o0-
600 tons Of coal year and has TO by
100000 more.
Railroads use 40 per cent Of our steel
output in rails. rolling stock. bridges.
etc Structural steel comes next on the
list: then the electric railways, ma
chinery. agricultural implements. uten-
efr- nd ha fglhfr,c- farrraIrfes h.
remainder.
Lumber has increased in value a hun
bred per cent in the past fifteen years.
while clay products have been greatly
cheapened- A man might just as we'll as
not build his store, apartment house,
church or residence hreproof. The first
investment will not be more than per
cent increase above what II would cost
him to build I'm the cheapest and most
hre-trappy manner What with increased
conveniences and the higher price OF
labor our buildings cost us Il per cent
more than they averaged twenty years
ago.
We paid s.. 10000 for MISUNDERSTANDING
it's new boundary Iine-and have taken
SO. 600. 600 worth of gold out of it since gold
was discovered; its fish have Melted US
SIS. O00, 600. and its fur trade has totaled
UP nearly S4O.OOo.00o.
We manufacture every year a greater
total product than England. France,
and Germany combined
We have per cent OF the worlds
area and per cent OF its population,
and that population is increasing faster
than is that of any other country.
We nave ii per cent of the worlds
total railroad mileage and 1900 more
miles than the trackage of all European
countries put together
Five years ago there were only few
over 5.O00.OO0 savings bank depositors in
the country; today there are $500, 600
with S2,640.OOo.OOO 10 their credit.