The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-31

Mexicos Congress is composed of Sen- ators elected for four years and Reple- sentatives elected for two years. They all draw 5000 a year. There are two yearly sessions and q committee of both Houses sits during the recesses,
 Where the elephant is mostly used for transportation the natives call an "c.c- phant load" two tons which may be term ed their relative value of horse power. In gathering statistics it has been shown that in tho States Tn which brewing has much grown there are fewer homicides than there were before beer became tie popular beverage. It Is supposed that a great many whiskey drinkers became un- der that condition beer drinkers, and that the latter does not conduce to murderous notions as much as does the former.
 The roar of the lion is the loudest noise made by living thing. Next in the line of noises is the hyena, then the screech owl, the panther and the jackal. The donkey can be heard fifty times further than the horse, tho cat ten times further than the dog and the hare-when in fear farther than either dog or cat.
 Of 1,53o cities and towns in the Unit sd States of more than 3O00 inhabitants, i.4I5 have waterw orks, 1,47l electric lights, l, i66 telephone service. 1,G9G sewers for house. hold waste. 9S1 gas works, DPS street rail- ways Key West. Fla. is the largest city in the United states which reports no Wa ter worKsf Nearly 10000 people there draw water from wells, cistorns, etc.
 
 It is estimated that there arc 29,000,0 900 more or less active church members in this country Catholics, of course, pre- dorinlatc in numbers over any one other sect. The Methodists have 5,JCO,OO0, Pres byterians, 1,6O0,0O0; Episcopalians, 7i3000; Congregationalists 653.00e. The UnitariaAs have but 13,000.
 The era of great endowments is surely upon us. Colleges, churches and parks and museums are getting money in chunks of four and six and ten million dollars from men like Rockefeller, Car negie, Field, Gordon Mckay.
 Cur religion comes high. Not the build ing of churches but the mere maintenance of all the churches in America costs us annually some $260, 0,00OO09. Besides this We pay out something like S75,00O,000 into for eign and other missions and church work of greater or less practical utility. With out any irTeverence or disparagement may 1t not be suggested that a very great part of this vast sum could be diverted into other channels of greater moral and nI- man benefit?
 Our exports to Russia this year amount ed to over $17,OO0O00, $1OO0O.OO0 more than the year before. and our exports to Japan amounted to $21 100000. decline of about $I0O0,OO0 from the year prior From a selfish point of view, trouble between theee two countries would greatly benefit our commerce.
 In Chicago during tho six winter mont.is it is estimated that deaths from pneu- monia will reach 2,1G0 and those from con sumption 1,30O. The increase in the deaths ffem pneumonia in that city is something appalling.
 Our German immigrants rank high in every way. Fife thousand eight hundred and eighty-two of them landed in New York one month last year. they brought $260 600 with them and only 103 were ilit- crate. The same month nearly 10,1G0 Italians landed and they had but $1l0, IV0 and 3.710 of them were illiteratc.
 During 1903 there were AO6 murders com mitted in this country, S,597 cases of sui- eide, (40J0 of these suicides were by pol son), 12S legal executions. deaths at sea and on our inland waters by shipwrcok