The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-03

covers two square miles or l,2i0 acres. A larger territory than was covered by the last Chicago. Omaha, Buffalo and Paris Propositions combined, hut some say 1t will be far less artistic than any of the latter.
 There have been excavated something like S1 GOO. 900 cubic yards for the Panama canal. The Frepch Company actually collected S26O,0O0,0 0O0 and expended about $15d co, GOO in work. We propose diff ferept construction and 1t will make use of but about half the work that has been done and the total cost to this govern ment, including purchase price is esti- mated at $1s4,OO00Oo but 1t is liable to run to $212, ,000, 900.
 There are 5000 colored teachers in the United States, 300 lawyers, and 800 doctors.
 In the prisons of the Eastern States fully one-third of the convicts are edu- cated men.
 Presidents of two of our large insurance companies draw $150,000 per year salaries. Mir. Rudd's salary as director of the South African Gold Company was $s50. coco: one of the rollers in the United States Steel Company's mills gets $2l 000--not bad AOk udy ldDOA--AAlillOu OdWhlhSB DAilhSt in London gets $250, 600; Madame Heglon of the Paris Opera, draws S2O,0o0 per year; the Lord Chancellor of England gets $SO.- 600, the Archbishop of York $65, GOO The Turkish Minister of Finance gets $40,000: the Grand Vizier $sO.0O0; Samuel Spencer. the railroad man gets $125,00O a year and all things considered, though 1t is said money cannot be saved on a slary. some salaries are not bad things to have. The world is producing T00.O0O0Oo tons of coal of which amount the United States produces 26S.O 900 and the United Kingdom 227,OO0yOo0.
 The world produces 5000. OOOO gallons of wine per year.
 The death rate in the City of Chicago has been reduced fifty per cent in fifty years. New York's death rate is 20.61 per 1000. Philadelphia, 1o.3S; Boston. 20.S2 and Chicago, 14.6S. San Francisco expends for it's Health Department 64 cents per capita, New York, 90 cents; Boston, 90 cents; Philadelphia, 9 cents and Chicago, 10 cents. So that Chicago's good health can hardly be attributed to any care on the part of the municipality perhaps Chicago people go away to die.
 l ne dNeTdSe CieaTlnBS or tne NeW 1Ork Clearing House amount to $263, ,000, 900!
 There are 273 life sations on our sea and lake coasts, the cost of the main tenance of which is $1, ,7220OO. The record for the past year shows fifty-seven ves- sells totally lost the number of lives lost were twenty-four out of a total of 4329 imperilled. Property amounting to nearly $10OO0,oOO was imperilled and but $1,16t0Oo was lost
 It is estimated that the deepening of the Erie canal that will cost $lO1, 900 900 will reduce the expense of carrying corn from Buffalo to New York just one cent per bushel, vet 1t will be a profitable under taking. The productiveness and possibii- ties of the West are such that if this canal were three times its carrying capa- city and there were four more transcon- tinental railroads, all these lines of traf- fife as we'll as the existing ones would still be taxed to their utmost capacity in carrying what the West could and would raise did we have the necessary transportation.
 The highest wind ever recorded was some years ago at North Platt. Nebras- ka, when it attained velocity of 96 miles an hour: Buffalo. New York. has seen ninety miles an hour, Galveston. Texas, & and Chicago S4. while New York and many other cities have experienced little breeEes of 80 miles or SO.
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