The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-09-11

world There have recently been dis
covered vast deposits OF Iron ore on the
Norwegian coast. deposits that warrant
the assertion that that section viii he
the greatest producer of iron in the world
very shortly. There is already one com
pany that is taking out ten thousand tons
Of ore a day-ore that easily runs to 60
per cent pure
In Tennessee there are 10000 men engae-
ed in mining and they received last
year s6,200,000 in wages In round nnm-
bers. The average wage per man was
s1.s2 per man per working day, and few
had work for more than $50 days. The
total value of the product was 81 100000
Deducf1ng wages and all expenses the
mine owners received about ss.ooo,OoO in
profit.
In 1893 the average of persons killed to
every thousand employed in the mining
industries Of the country was 25s; in
1902 the fatalities had increased to 352 per
cent.
New York spends about twice as much
for its amusement as for its education
and fifteen times as much for It's drink
as for its education.
In the recently fought battles at Lao
Yang it is estimated that 10000 of the
approximately 100000 troops involved were
killed. or nearly 10 per cent of the forces
actively engaged This percentage COM
pletely over-shadows the losses at Aus
terlitz, Waterloo, Liepss Antietam and
Gettysburg, probably the greatest per-.
centage of loss in modern warfare. Some
would have us believe 1t the worst battle
in history but 1t is recorded that ut the
Hattie of Platea the Persians, under Mar.
donius lost 100000 out of an army of
100000; in the battle of Silarius GO B. c.
100000 men were engaged and the lnsur-
gents alone under Spartacus, lost 260-
900 while the Roman |. sses were nat re-
corded; at thu ba,t,e Of Tssus .,leSan-
der, with $1,000 men, inflicted loss If
10000 on Darius who hId brought $4,000
into the conflict; 1t Is also recorded that
at different times Caesar confronted ell
emies aggregating 3.0e10Jo N number. of
whom he killed 1,O0O,519 and took aroth-
or 1,00p00O prisoners.
TIL most destructive epidemic that his
tory tells of was the BLACK Death, that
in the 14th century destroyed 70,0OO,0OO of
people.
The average speed of a good walker is
a trif1e over three miles an hour that
can be accelerated to a quick step that
will average five mile an hour for shorS
distances. Long marches over even tx
cellent roads rarely ever average ove-
is miles a day. The average speed in
swimming Is about 80 inches a second,
skater from nine to ten yards a Sec
ond, on skees "a yards and jumping with
skees 40 yards A 120 foot jump has been
made with skees. Ice Dor S will cover
Sc yards second, bicycle 66 feet, the fast
Russian wolf hound rs feet, a gazelle 80
feet, an ostrich 9S feet, a whale 300 yards
a minute, the European swallow 5000
yards a minute, but none of these speeds
equal that made by many small Insects
Thus an African jumping mouse leaps
through the air at the rate of 500 feet
a second, and a common flea jumps at
the velocity of $50 feet a second. But
all these speeds fade into utter insignifi-
canoe when compared with the travel of
clouds that have been known to cover
Is miles a minute, or an earthquake shock
that was observed to move at the rate
of 600 yards a second
The Belgians use dogs as draught ami
mails to a very large extent and a good
dog Is rated at the average strength of
500 pounds. That good people must la
ment the wastefullness of us Americans
who are allowing 100000 900 of good dog
strength to go to the waste.
There were 591 homicides the past year
in Japan. The total population is As ,OO0,-
900 and the average number of homicides
for the past ten years has been but 800.
During one years time in the city of
Chicago alone 567 assaults were made with
intent to KILL so people were arrested
for murder and for manslaughter. Last
years convictions In the criminal court of
Japan numbered las, 239 but of those con-
victions 10000 were for what we would
call petty msdemeanors. But 1868 peo-