The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-28
If You Do Not Know,
 You Ought to Know That

Senator Depew stated once that there were nearly 100000 millionaires in the world. Strange how some wise men get tangled on figures. There are not over 10000 millionaires in the entire world. Seven thousand of those live in the Unit ed States and a cool 1000 of that number hold forth in New York State. It Is doubtful if there are more than 15000 people in the world who are worth over $500, GOO.
 There were 94 fatalities on the Great Lakes last year; fl men were lost over board, g perished in laundering vessels, Il fell into the holds, 10 were killed by machinery, 5 in collision, ? fell from the masts, one perished by fire, and one was shot by mistake.
 The final figures are fin for the com merce of 1908; our total imports were $995. AIS. 1O1. and our exports $1.4s4, ,66S, ,127 or just double our exports of 1888.
 There is Chinese bank note in the British museum that was printed in 1869 or nearly 100 years before the birth of Gutenberg. And yet we call the Chi nese uncivilized
 The weather bureau contends that but per CeHl. OI llS WCdlhCl AOASSoSho AoSh year were inaccurate.
 The United States is using up 3O,0OO ounces of cocaine a year and not tenth of that is needed for medical purposes. Our "fends" must be increasing.
 Some one has calculated that a good head of hair means about 160000 individ- ual sprouts.
 The records of speed stands as follows: The best swimmOg record is mile in 21 minutes Il 2-5 seconds by R. s. Cavill, an Australian; canoe g minutes and 29 sec onds by McKendrick, an American; walk ing E minutes and 23 seconds, by Perkins, an Englishman; snow shoeing minutes 42A seconds; rowing minutes and 40 sec onds; sailing minutes 1874 seconds by an American schooner; running minutes 12% seconds, w. J. George, an English man; skating ? minutes 123s seconds; Don ohue, an American; trotting, l:5SA by Lou Dillon, an American; racing 1-56h, Dan Patch; steamship minute 55 2-5 sec onds, Deutchland; bicycle, 1:5S 2-5; run ming horse 1:391s, Salvador; torpedo boat 1-16. English; automobile, S9 seconds, w. K. Vanderbilt; railroad 32 seconds, Elm hire State Express; electric car 27ha sec onds, German.
 It is estimated that we humans pay out S1O,OOO,OOO every year for adulterated food preparations that are distinctly burtfui and poisonous and $9O,0OO,0OO for foods that while not poisonous are not what they purport to be.
 Tn 1s03 there were 12O0O failures with lla- bilities of $156.444,OoO; 1902, failures amounted only to $117476,0OO.
 In 1903 there were s,97O deaths in this country caused by violence; 4O6 murders committed by thugs and hold-up men twice as many as the preceding year 5g7 suicides; 123 legal executions.
 The temperature of the earth 5000 feet heIow the surface is about 9S degrees body heat
 In Spain there are 15OO0 monks, 1000 Jesuits, 6.OC0 lay clergy and 10000 nuns. All are exempt from taxation under the ordinary laws of the country and sub sist chiefly upon the charity of the faith full.
 Luther's defiance of the Pope may be | looked upon as the act of personal he- roism that has most influenced the his | tory of the world.
 l bar of steel worth $1 can be worked into $350 worth of needles or $3,2SO worth of knife blades.
 Gloves pass through nearly 200 hands during the process of manufacturer be- | fore they reach the hands of the wearer It is estimated and the writer firmly believes it to be under-estima ted that the average mau cats fourteen two horse wagon loads of food more than is good l for him during his lifetime. Incidentally the largest apes have but Is ounces of brain while the stupidest of men, even those who eat twenty loads too much food, have g ounces Of pralh'
 The great Pyramid contains S2'OVV'oOO cubic feet of stone.
 Our women have grow8 ccnsiderapis their average height to-6E ss sW0 lhches