The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-29
If You Do Not Know,
 You Ought to Know That

Emperor of Austria in 1915. It financed the French loan after the Franco Prussian wa and made SEQ. ooo. 900 out of that week. work. The marriage settlement of one of the daughters recently welded was S75 oOO OOO With such wealth concentrated in a few hand the possibilities of manipulation are beyond conception; why couldn't they get up a few more wars?
 One hundred million dollars a year changes hands through the curb-stone brokers of Wall Street They are at it in all kinds of weather have certain rigid ethics and in the absence of telephones and tickers resort to shouting large writing slates seen through telescopes in brokers windows and other expedents a. effective as amusing.
 Chicagos street car strike bids fair to make quite a hole in that citys finances Those things are costly. The St. Louis street ca strike cost the merchants company and strik- CTS over 2.ooo. 900. but it lasted a lon tiIne The Cleeland vstrike of '99 cost 6 |, . ooo.ooo and New Orleans. San Francisco ant many other cities know how those things feel
 There are 22.3l2 printing establishments in the United States and the value of the finished product is about S25o, COG. 900 per year One ana quarter billion pounds of paper are use6 in year. Forty thousand salaried officers clerks and so on are employed in the busI- ness and I7s.ooo workmen
 tiousdnu elBnt hundred and aiRhtV- seven building permits were taken in October in 24 of the principal cities of the country These permits involve an expenditure of Soa . 900, 900. During the same month of last vear SSS lewer permits were taken out and nearly $500, 900 less money expended.
 During the past nine months there have been 8, l70 failures in this country, 500 fewer thar in the same period last year. but the liabili ties of the insolvents in the past nine months amounted to SIol,655.e55. or Sa2, 3se oos more than those for the same period in Ieo2
 Fish oils are no small item of our nro5,o tion. We get l9,3oo, 900 gallons of that pro. duct per year-5, 500. 900 from whales anf seals. $500, 900 from cod and shark liver and 7Soo, 900 from menhaden herring, etc.
 If you think 1t is too cold fin your section go to Bahrein on the Persian Gulf There ia only one place hotter The mean temperature for the year Is 9e. Often in Summer it is I4o in the shade and 100 at midnight.
 Taxes in Italy amount to SlIIo per head or 3 per cent. more than the average income of its people. It spends s4 cents a head fo education, but 1t spends S5.ooo, 900 !, year on lotteries.
 Some think that Russia is unprogressive Ir the last fifty years she has acquired new ter ritory larger than all of the United States And just watch her moves on the political chess board.
 The Metropolitan Art Museum of New York has just purchased old chariot for $50 900. It was unearthed near Rome some time ago and is 2. 500 years old and splendIdly pre- served.
 Fifty per cent. of deaths from consumption are people under AS years of age: 39 per cent from 45 to 60 and I2 per cent. of people over 60.
 Ten years ago we imported SI 500, 900 z year in hosiery from England; today we buy but S2oo, 900 worth per year. Onions contain 79 per cent. of water; DO tatoes 63 per cent; tomatoes. s4 per cent