Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1904-04-15

at 1910, 202. GA and extraordinary expendi-
Japan's public debt Is s2oo. 1856, 1894. or
"a IS per capita Of population; Russias 5, 3d.
Japan's exports from the United States
aggregate S21,162,477 annually; Russia s.
Sc sod s5T.
Japans Imports into the United States
total S36,s54,602 yearly; Russia s. $3.50
100
Japans total exports annually aggregate
S124.209, 1928; Russia's S36S, 955, 242;
Japan's total imports yearly reach value
of 1927 1896, $50. Ruesias, 1922, 5S3, O82.
In one year in Japan 16S,976 arrests for
crime are made IN Russia, 603,974-
In 1888 Japan's merchant navy Included
I ,13o steamers Of European type, 1,914 sail
ing vessels and 1a097 native craft; Russia
in 1899 consisted of 657 steamers and 2,14S
In 1899 Japan had $50 miles of state rail-
ways and 1852 miles of railways owned by
private companies; Russia had 81, 4S5 miles
of railway, of which 9,591 miles belonged to
private companies.
Passengers carried on Japans railway in
year totaled 9s,537 ill; Russia's So, 1oS'-
In 1900 Japan had 1888 miles of the teIe-
graph, or %, 1896 miles of wire In operation;
Russia, 98,052 or 271, 024.
The total number of kilograms handled
In Japan In year was 15,5o3,7 700; Russia,
IS, 217, 238.
In 1900 Japan had 1852 miles of tele-
phone or 31,273 miles OF wire; Russia mad
In 1900 Japan's postal service, including
4.404 postofflces, handled 635, 1856, $40 letters
and parcels; Russia's handled 632,9T2,SlI
letters and parcels.
Japan is 200 miles distant from Korea;
from Moscow, Russia, the distance, as the
crow flies, is 1900 miles.
Japan has 1lS separate, or 2,022 miles OF
submarine cables; Russia has 10, with to-
tai of 819 miles,
Japan's schools are non-sectarian, practi-
cal, and tend to enltghten liberalism; Rus
sia's are ruled by a tyrannical religion OF
which the Gar Is the head.
The number of horses In Japan at last
report was 1887 ,697; in Russia. 5,3o4, 900.
The number OF cattle in Japan at the last
e eSBB0Ft was 1'2S0'OOO' IN Russia S''4i''-
The forests of Japan cover 1885,, 785
acres; Russia, 474, 100000.
Japans annual production of silk. cotton
and other textiles is valued according to
last reports, at $71 $50, 500; Russia's cotton
Industry proper employs more than 100000
LOOMS and is valued at $2SS, 100000 a year.
Japan's postoffices act as savings banks.
and, according to last reports, .5e5, 1913 per-
sons made deposits In one year aggregafingl
| S1s,950 754 In the 5,351 state, municipal
and postal savings banks of Russia 3,o0,-
140 depositors put total of 1919, 967, 900.
The Nippon Ginko, Bank Of Japan, has
paid up capital OF $4,000 900, deposits
aggregating $780, sS4, 900, loans tntsling ST.,
| 329 5B2 400 and eight branch Offices; the
Bank of Russia has 118 branches, capital
and reserve of more than $4,000, 900, de-
posits and current accounts aggregating
| over Slio,otJ,UUO.
| Japan's Mikado is the 121st descendant of
the Emperor Jimlnu. who founded the pres
ent dynasty In ego b. c.; the reigning fam
lily in Russia descend from Michael Roman
OF, elected Gear III 1913
Tobacco yields Japan an annual revenue
Of but 81, 1853, 600; In Russia there are ESQ.,
254 tobacco plantations and the manufac-
ture Of tobacco, cigars and cigarettes ex-
| ceeds 50, $50 tons annually, the revenue
yielded the government being near S25,000,-
900 annually.
Japan produces large quantities Of sake
and soy, but little other spirits; In Russia
| there are 2055 dlstilerles, producing an
nually 2,245, 700 tons of spirits, and LOTT
beer brewerles producing annually 115, s00,-
| O00 gallons Of beer.
Japan secures an annual revenue of more
than 500, 100000 on spirits; Russias totals
are more than $17d,00o,OO0.
In Japan the sale of spirits Is regulated
/ by strict local laws; In Russia the Crown
has a monopoly In handling the sale OF
| spirits in many provinces, the total guam
| tity Of vodka sold in a year at 301 spirit
! depots In 20 provinces amounting to a. 665.-
| 500 gallons.
Last reports give the total marriages In
! Japan In one year at All ,217. births i $685.
| go, deaths 1914. 437; In Russia 500, S74 mar
! riages 1884, 500 births and S,063,047 deaths
| The average height Of a Japanese is s
| feet inches; of a Russian, feet inches
! The average weight Of n Japanese Is 100
/ pounds; OF a Russian, 10 pounds.
| The japanese have no oaths In their lam
! guage and never swear; the Russians are
! notorious for their use of explosives
/ The average density of the population
! throughout japan is 296 to the square
| miles; in Russia the average density count
ing all provinces of the great empire, is but
| IL per square mile.