The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-11-22
TerseIy Told Facts
Picked at Random

tricts. There is "A patch in Burnett
county OF FIVE acres where may be found
nickel gold silver, lead tin, eerium.
iantharum. erbium, thorium. and ura-
MUM. not TO mention several other valG-
able metals.
Once every fifteen years we get read
close TO Mars, something like 55.oo0o00
miles The rest OF the time we are
only 14l,O00.oa0 miles away from IT,
Until the beginning Of the eighteenth
century Great Britain's national debt
was never over S3.500.000. since then BY
reason OF her wars. she has gotten wei
beyond the $500. 100000 mark.
The Armenians have been a so-cailed
Christian nation without break for I.500
years. and have been in constant rows
with their neighbors since long before
that period. They are a very old race.
/ We find mention OF them in the cunci-
form inscriptions Of Babylon and Assy-
ria. and they are mentioned By Keno
phon and Ezekiel.
/ They have some queer laws in Mexico.
/ If person is wounded by an assault
! the assaflant is kept in iaI as long a.
4 the other one IS incapacitated from
/ work; if he is so incapacitated for more
4 than forty days, then the assaiIant gets
/ twice that tire. FL is twice as much an
I offense 10 mutilate a woman's face as II
/ is mans.
The process Of stereotyping is 10
years old today
It is estimated that the respiratory
surface of the human lungs is 1860
square feet.
The death rate on the globe in So per
| minute. the birth rate %, or yearly
average Of 35.7l7,7s0 deaths and ss.slLsoO
births.
If people living in damp houses or
marshy neighborhoods would only plant
laurel and sunaowers they would have
fewer doctors. bids to pay.
Since 1910. the worlds production OF
meat has increased 81 per cent. and
grain 40 Der cent
BY means of irrigation something
ike 3.5Oo.OO0 acres Of land in Dakota have
been increased in value over s2sa09o00o.
We do a good many things in a
minutes; for instance. we are whirIed on
the outside of the earth just thirteen
miles. and have gone around the sun
LOSS miles; ray Of light has Travelled
lL1ol.fJ00 miles: the lowest sound your
ear can catch has made $50 vibrations,
the ioudest tone. 222s000 vibrations.
twenty-four barrels of beer have gone
down 12096 throats; e.673 cigars have
been made; 300 tons OF coal have been
q ..f
extracted from mother earth.
The South is making great strides to-
ward high place IN the commereiaI
world In ten years the value Of real
and personal property there has in
creased y Der cent. while in New Eng
land and the Middle States the increase
vas only y per cent. The per capita
wealth in the South during the same ne
Rod increased y per cent. while in New
England increase was but per cent
and in the Middle States 3 per cent
The population per square mile OF
country in Germany is 81; in Belgium.
81; in Great Britain. s15; in France. 1ss;
in Turkey. 50; Russia, 3; in The United
States p, and the Southern States
proper 3.
The summer and autumn temperature
Of AshevilIe, y. G.; Augusta Ga; Chat
tanooga, Tenn; Louisville. Ky. is about
the same as that of St. Paul. Mimi; the
winters show a different record, the
Southern cities rarely 20 below S. while
St Paul is liable to g to IS below.
England gets about 100000 worth Of
new gold from Africa every month and
100000 worth out of Australia.
IN the last thirteen years over 5.ooo. 900
human beings starved 10 death in India;
at she same time wheat and corn were
being fed to the cattle in this country
or used as fuel
We are producing about 5000 600 worth
Of gold per month, and today we have
s.. ~, ss4 SIS OF money in circulation in
this country. In 1886 We had s1.6z7, oo0,-
coo
Latest statistics show US that the
average income per family of some 300
families selected at random in thirty
three States is SS27.l9 per annum, and
that the average expenditure FOR All
purposes was S76S54- The food expen-
diture included was Ss26.9o. and the aver
age sized family is 5.31. The cost Of
food reached the highest poinE in 1902,
and was then 1O9 per cent above the
average for the ten years preceding or
Isl per cent higher than 1886 when food
was lowest
The pension issue last year was the
largest in ten years; the issue from the
first quarter OF the present year eN-
ceeds the same period last year by >
per cent
The Germans are beginning 10 get on
TO the idea of combinations and trusts.
two of the big banks have just com
bined. the united capital aggregating
ST. go. 600. the second strongest aggre-
cation of banking capital in the world.
only exceeded by the Bank OF England.
The union is for thirty years.
You can buy an elephant for $500. and
if Won are running menagerie and you
get him when he is not too old he is
likely TO stand YOU in good stead for