The Washington times., 1903-11-08
Tersely Told Facts
Picked at Random

/ thirty have a hundred miles Of line or
more. In The same length of time the
number of passengers carried in year
has increased TO nearly i've billions.
/ The Lutheran Church has the greatest
number of followers Of any Protestant
church in the world II has eSooo0
m smbers; the Episcopalian 20,0Do 090; the
4 Methodist 100000; the Baptist 100000;
the Presbyterian s.ooo.o0o; the Congre-
gationalist 100000.
/ France coins more gold than other
countries, 900 tons or that precious
metal turned into gold coin in the last
forty years is her record. Great Britain
has used up but LOO tons in the same
/ space Of time for the same purpose.
The British workingmen have man
aged to put away a gOodly little nest
egg in friendly, building, cooperative.
and trades union societies and savings
banks. The records show that e7.5so.oo0
of them have S1,s14oooOoo in such saw
ings.
! II a man could use his legs proper
tionately as fast as an ant he would
travel somewhere about SOD miles an
hour.
In the past year sixty-hve new freight
vessels have been built and launched on
the Great Lakes with a gross tonnage
capacity of 4,75e,ce0 tons.
Portugal IS the most HHterate coun-
try in Europe. Nearly 6S per. cent Of her
population cannot write. In Italy the
proportion of nliterates is So per cent
in Russia IS per cent, in Spain per
cent. and in Britain not quite per
cent
In Chicago there are twenty-five
branches of woman Iaborers organized
in unions. having $1,000 members.
There are 10000 domestic servants OF
all descriptions in England; some @G0o0
Of these are charwomen-
Railroad men last year were paid $57o.-
o29.o 900. as compared with s445,5os,oo0 in
1885
More than 5e,W0.oo0 pounds OF rubber.
valued in its raw state at so Oo0.eo0.
was imported into this country last year.
In Germany the increase in crime com
mitted by youthful criminals has been
40 per cent during the past few years.
while the population has increased but
10 per cent in the same period
The entire Indebtedness Of the United
States is 1886. 100000. and most Of it is
owedrto our own citizens. for but a little
over 5000 900 of United States bonds ara
in foreign hands. The strange feature
OF the matter is that most of the holders
OF these bonds are in Cuba. In France
and England. which come second and
third, there are perhaps 100000 OF
bonds while in Germany there are but
81, coo Of our securities held.
The Postofice revenues for the past
fiscal year were S134. Us GOO: the expendi-
lures. s1Ss,7ss. 900. and there were $685.
600 600 Of money orders isssssd- There
are 74.o31 postmasters in eoHzmlssiOn,
and there We're &c. 600. 600 domestic money
orders issued.
The late depreciation of stock has. OF
course. not actually Impoverished US so
very much. but we feel. nevertheless,
that we are about s., 900. 900. 900 poorer.
Taking 100 industrial combinations or
trusts. whose capital steck at par value
is quoted at So. So. 0000 coo. prices had been
quoted as high as 81 Os0. 100000. while
their lowest recent quotation was 81
s96 eoO.o0
In the United States the excess Of
births over deaths was . per 1909 in
1890. today IL IS %; the French rate was
. in 1874. p in 1894 and p today. or a
drop of 4.3 during the period for which
returns We're available. During the cor
responding period the English rate has
fallen 6, the Italian 90. in Germany ~.
In Russia the rate Is advancing. 1t
was III in 1892 and is over 80 today. IN
Australia the rate is falling most
alarmingly: in 1861 it was 40, and to-
day it is but 27.S5.
The cost of lumber has increased over
100 per cent in twenty years. the cost
of burnt clay products has been de-
creasing steadily. improved methods in
manufacture more than compensating
for increased cost of labor. There IS
no longer any excuse for not building
houses absolutely nreprOof. building the
floors and partitions Of hreprOOf tile in
stead of timber. Bids taken for the
two ways of constructing house re-
Gently show a difference in favor OF the
ureprOOf- BullL TINS way the helSs
will cost S5.l3S while built OF wood it
viii cost $3.50.
1t costs somewhere near S6.5ooeoe
year to run our Government Printing
Office. There are nearly 5000 people en-
ployed there. receiving 100000 IN
wages; consumption Of paper amounts
10 S75o.o0O per year: lithographing ana
engraving cost $4,000; Sl5.O0O for thread
and Irvine; $500 for sponges, and so on.
Documents TO the number of 1,6i5.Sls
are handled in a year, and the new
building has cost S2.5e000o-
II is estimated that by 1915 England
will have exhausted an her coal that
lies in less than 2.OO0 feet depths, but
the same engineers estimate that she
viii stil have enough to supply her
own needs for 80 years more. BY that
time the English VIII be using some
heat-producing American invention.
In Illinois damage suits amounting =
e. 600 600 were tried in 1890. in 1892 som