The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-06-19
If You Do Not Know,
 You Ought to Know That

Since January khe 1st, 1899. upon which date were consolidated the diff ferent boroughs forming Greater New York city that city has spent, or IS winding up appropriations of $531,0o0,- 900 in public improvements and ex- banding of its municipal systems. Rapid transit has cost s25o,000,0 900. ed- ueation sioO, ,o00,o 900, bridges $60.0oo,- 900, beAutifying the city $35,o0o,oo0, public health and philanthropy $23,- O0O, 900, q bettered water supply $21.- 900. 900. municipal buildings S10,000,- 900, etc, etc. In the boroughs of Man. haitian and Bronx alone since that time there have been spent $500,000,000 in building operations. Altogether it may
 he stated that taking public and pri-
 vate improvements into consideration benefits to the city, there has been spent there nearly a billion and three quarters dollars-$1, 750, ,00o, ,000! There are now actually being built in Chicago 687 buildings for which permits were taken out during May. They aggregate 1S,212 feet of front age and will cost $3,663,000. It is a most excellent showing judging from the May record dating back to '93; i; only in '95 in 1901 and 1902 has that record been exceeded.
 
 There is not much danger of the dis turbances in Wall street very serious ly affecting the country generally as
 long as farming conditions are as good as they have been, and bid fair to be. After feeding our live stock,
 our farms will yield this year some- thing over s4,50O,0o0,O00 of surplus products.
 For the ten months ending April
 1st our exports reached a value of
 s371, ,712,00o, the highest point ever
 reached excepting in the year 1900,
 when we went to the s433, 900, 900 mark.
 Few people realize the importance of
 the Portland cement industry. It is
 getting to be one of the great manu-
 factured products Germany has an
 output of something like 20.000,000
 barrels a year, in this country we
 manufacture about 10.000.000, Eng
 land s.oo0,0oo and France 100000.
 Statistics tells us that there are 27,-
 800, ,00o married persons in the United States and only iS9, ,0o0 divorced. This is cited as a proof that divorce is not as common as 1t has sometimes been thought But on the other hand it
  pie very soon remarry and therefore are these figures robbed of all signifi- canoe.
 The interest bearing debt of the United States is $S95, ,157. 900; debt on which interest has ceased since ma turity, $2.110,0oo; debt bearing no in- terest, $391, ,321, ,O0o. Total $1.2SS, S,590, 900. This amount however. does not include $97s, s,000.000 in certificates and treas ury notes outstanding which are offset by an equal amount of cash held for their redemption. t
 According to the last census there are 2,751,70s males in Canada and but S,619,607 females; a good chance for some of our surplus Eastern girls.
 Rose bushes sometimes become rose trees. At Cologne there is one 300 years old that has a trunk feet in and at Ventura, in the State of big things, is one that Is feet in circumference at | the ground. It was only planted in 1876, but shades an area of 2,000 feet. |
 One of the best ways of testing a | diamond is to make small dot with a pencil on a piece of paper. Look at that dot through the diamond, if you see but one dot, 1t Is a diamond-if you see many don't let anyone bamfoozle | you into buying it.
 Including the refined products of | gold, silver and other metals our | mines and quarries have produced | about $916,o00,00o this year, an esti- mate based upon the production of | SSS4, 000,00 in 1902. That means 260,- 900, 900 tons of bituminous coal, 37,O0O,- TIRFN OF NOCTORlN(c 1