The Washington times., 1903-11-29
Tersely Told Facts
Picked at Random

: During the past nine months there
I have been S.176 failures En- tEis country.
600 fewer than in the same period last
year. but the liabilities Of the iusolvents
/ in the past nine months amounted to
Sl0l 655. $50. or So So. 205 more than those
/ for the same period in 1892
One hundred and ten passengers on
railroad trains operating IN the United
States were killed IN railnesd accidents
during the past year, asid 2SS pas
/ sengers were injured IN those accidents.
The total Of lives lost. including rail-
road employees. ia this country. IN the
same time. amounts 60 &C. and GIL
people injured. We operate ls3,50f miles
OF railroad and we carry eO7.27S III pas
sengers; the English railways In the
! United Kingdom have not over 22.000
miles of road. but carry Lbs. 0o0. 900 pas
/ sengers- II would be natural to suppose
that with so many passengers on such
a limited mileage there would be more
+ accidents there than here, bat that is
not the case. Last year showed a rec
ord OF but IS killed and less injured, i'm
GLIDING passengers and employees, on
/ English railroads
We exported from this country &c.,
. -c-1s4l- HOLAu Oh GDLADn TINS 4dA1A A|-
tober; October year ago the exports
/ were $42.OOo,O00: October, 1901. s45, ,O00.
and October. 1900. SEQ, 474 49,. The average
i price this year is 101 cents a pound
/ The total value OF cotton exported IN
the fiscal year OF 1903 was S576. 757.645
over S1,0o0,oOo day in one product IL
not 50 bad gecord-
i Ten years ago sc imported $1,5o0.OOO
{ g.,
We buy but $4,000 worth per year.
! London slaughters 5000 horses every
year and receives 10000 others from else
/ where.
Pensions in this country cost SIS per
head OF population
The population OF London has IN
creased II per cent in fourteen years.
Fifty per cent Of deaths from consump-
! ton are people under forty-five years OF
I age, % per cent from forty-1ve to sixty,
and u per cent Of people over sixty.
There are z2.S1z printing establish
ments in the United States and the
value of the finished product is about
$3.50. 0O0, 600 per year. One and a quarter
billion pounds Of paper are used IN a
year. Forty thousand salalfed officers.
| clerks and so on are employed in the
business and 10000 workmen.
Seven thousand eight hundred and
sixty-seven building permits were taken
out in October IN twenty-fOur Of the
principal cities Of the country. These
permits involve an expenditure OF Sz6.-
100000 During the same month OF last
| year 62S fewer permits were taken out
and nearly $4,000 less money expended
Taxes in Italy amount 70 S11eo per
head. or per cent more than the av-
1 erage income Of its people 1t spends 8
/ cents head for education. but * spends
over s5,ooo,eoe a year on lotteries
Onions contain g per cent Of waters
potatoes, So per cent; tomatoes, 81 per
cent green corn, IS per cent: celery, IS
per cent cabbage, - per cent; string
beans, 81 per. cent
1t is at least a peculiar coincidence
4 that the exports Of a country run az
about the same ratio as the eonsunp-
/ ton of food per capita of the peoples
/ We export a billion and a quarter and
/ spend 50 cents a day each FOR food
i England comes next in exports and 81
cents per capita. Germany third and
A. cents per capita France next and
40 cents. Russia next and % cents. and
little Italy exports $275. 000.0o0 worth, and
its inhabitants spend Is cents per day.
including macaroni, TO keep alive.
There are 100000 farms in the United .
States and the average is 40 acres
Some think that Russia Is unrrogres-
sive. In the last fifty years she has nc
quired new territory larger than all OF
the United States. And Just watch her
moves on the political chess board
Fish oils are no small item OF our
production. We get L. $4,000 gallons OF
that product per year-5.5oo.ooo from
whales and seals. $4,000 from cod and
shark Iivers. and 100000 from menhaden
herring. etc.
Mayer Amschel was the first OF the
Rothschild family to attain eminence IN
the financial world he hourished in
1876 as a peddler. He had five sons To-
day the family is worth s.. 100000 II
/ was ennobled by the Emperor Of Aus
tria in 1915. 1t financed the French loan
latter the FrancO-Prussian war and made
$50 900, 900 out of that weeks work. The
marriage settlement OF one OF the ttiA6A II
tiers recently welded was S75,ooo00o.
II you think it is TOO cold in your sec
ton go to Bahrein on the Persian Gull
/ There is only one place hotter The
mean temperature for the year IS 50.
OFTEN in summer it IS 10 in the shade
and 100 at midnight
The metropolitan Art Museum. Of New
York. has Just purchased an old chariot
for $4,000. 1t was unearthed near Rome
some time ago, is 200 years old, and
] spIeudidly preserved
Indiana does not permit consumptives
10 teach school.
The United States produces 100000
bales of cotton this year; the worlds
production is 600 bales of about 500
pounds each
One million and quarter Of our day
tIaborers belong 70 national labor unions