The Washington times., 1903-11-01
Tersely Told Facts
Picked at Random

parties on real estate IN the city OF New
York alone.
There are nearly 100000 square miles
Of looking glass made in Europe every
year.
The average weight OF a mans brain
is three pounds eight ounces. a woman's.
Z two pounds four ounces. Mans brain
/ decreases in weight after forty. womans
after thirty years Of age
There are over 100000 nerves.
branches. and minute ramiications tfat
connect with the brain.
An English postman died recently
/ leaving an authenticated record Of bav-
ing walked z11.OOO miles in the forty-two
years he was employed in the postohioe.
! According 10 the London police records
( % per cent of the habitual drunkards In
that city who were imprisoned last year
were women.
II all the dressmakers in the United
states should work for twelve hours a
day for whole year they would only
/ oe able te make a dress apiece Tor half
the women in the country.
I -Four million OF our families live on
less than $500 a year and so per cent
/ Of our families live on less than s1.000
a year.
II takes eight days. three hours. and
twenty minutes 70 count million il Won
count 200 minute for ten hours day.
The value Of the me- nufactured prod
ucts IN the State Of New York for a year
equals s2.175, 900, 900; Pennsylvania. 81 So
10000; Illinois. 81 ESQ. 10000; Massaehu-
sets, s.. O85, 10000 Minnesota comes
thirteenth on the list with SIS. 900. 0o0.
and the District OF Columbia SIS. O0O,e90
as thirty-hfth on the list.
/ It is estimated that 5000. 900 people
died last century. This. OF course, takes
in the whole world. and is necessarily
/ approximate
One OF the smaller sequoia trees IN
{ California has recently been cut. 1t was
only fifteen feet in diameter. yet its an
nular rings showed it TO be 1.ssO years
old.
The Mississippi River discharges an
nnally 10 500. 600. 100000 cubic feet Of water
I
in that water. washed from the upper
/ sections, would make a deposit OF 2f0
+ feet deep over a square mile OF area
Siberia exported nearly 100000
pounds Of butter last year
! A child OF either sex seven years old
should weigh forty-nine pounds should
be forty-six inches high, and have
chest girth Of twenty-three and one-half
inches
Bible Society agents sold Bibles print.
/ ed IN 50 languages in the Russian En-
! pire last year; q languages in BurInahs
90 in South Malaysia. and 50 in Egyp-
tian agencies.
There are more than seven thousand
Episcopal ministers in England who are
bringing up families on less than 500 a
year, while a great many receive but
/ 500 year, and hundreds but 500
/
/ In London about 10000 persons re-
ceive less than 8 per week per family.
and one-third Of that usually goes TO
rent.
Two hundred million dollars was spent
last year by the railroads for new cars
and engines This means that the car
rying capacity of the railroads has been
increased some 100000 tons
/ The increase in railroad rolling stock
last year was $4,000 freight cars, $3.50
passenger cars-including baggage. mail.
and express-and $3.50 locomotives. The
average price OF a locomotive is $1,000.
a passenger car $1,000. and a freight car
s7Oo.
In 1870 railroad capital amounted to
| 1856. 600 600, in 1900 it had reached 81
/ 500, 100000. There were no electric rail-
ways in 1870, and the capital invested
in them in 1900 was Ss'75o,ooo.ooo
The great Siberian railway is going to
| cost $500. 900 900. or just three times what
It was estimated to cost
From 1887 10 1885 there were 6z5,5S5 pat
ents granted by the United States The
/ Patent once has taken in over S40,OO0.oOs
in fees since its creation
There are 100000 miles of telephone
wires in use in this country. and they
carry nearly 2OOO.OO.oOo calls per year
/
Electric lights in use IN this country
every day equal s2o.OOO,OOO candles.
Things have changed radically In
housebuilding F'ireproOfng for resi-
dences and smaller buildings used 10
be prohibitive on account OF its cost;
TODAY by new combination Of thing
and wire a construction has been oe-
vised that. according to the very latest
bids actually costs less than the ordi-
nary wood floor joists and lath and plas-
! ter partitions
| In 1865 individual deposits in national
banks amounted to $500 900, ooo; in 1873.
Ss1s. 900. 600: in 1855. 81. III. 600 900. and in
1895. 81, 720. 600 COO and in 1902 $, .OoQ,-
600. In savings bank deposits aggre-
! gated $3.50. GOO coo in 1865. and were s.. co.
900. 600 last year. IN private banks there
were $3.50 OO0. 900 in 1865. and 81, e00, 0o0. 900
last year. In loan and trust companies
records only go back 10 1875. when there
were So. 900. 600 in deposit; last year there
We're 81, 2SO. 0Oo. coo.
| The wealth Of this country is nearly
500 OO0. 900. 600; that Of the United King
dom. $50 600 coo 900; France. $50, 600 000, 600;
Germany. $4,000 00O. 900; Russia. SIS. O00.-