Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1904-10-27
WORTH REMEMBERING.
Facts aud statistics showing the Trcm-
cndoUs Frog r~sS of the world.

|
Tie following interesting paragraphs
| We're cull"d from various articles In the
| november issue of Success"
There arc 800. dry goods stores in the
United states.
The population Of tho world is now
| estimated to be l.jp3.Ec,Uuo
Waste leather * no longer thrown
away. Manufacturers use it. in - COM
pressed form, inst I'D of iron. to make
cog-w heels.
Thc Ambd"Xtrous soci,tv oi London
has been formed with the object OF en-
| courne ins people 60 use both hands with
equal facility.
Ants are tn" most brainy of all Great
nfcS. In proportion to- its siZc. an ant
brain is larger than that OF any other liv-
ing being.
Moro than 2.ooo skilled worl>m,n have,
l"it the rr"pch silk factories Of Roi,lAiN
ana Turc"ing within a vcd' for tho
lnit"d stats
The countries hat have the largest nn,i-
rl"tion Chna. India ani Russia. ar, Not
inc strongest nations either ndusris.lly
c"mm"rcihllT. or n ANY oth", war.
rive women at Washington. y. e.. arc
SIM drawing pensions as widows If sol
'i'"r* who served iu tho War OF tho Rcg,-
lution, which ,ndod ono hundred ,,rI
twenty years ago.
1lb"ts six million people haze to sup
port an a'1av Of rur hundred aud thirty
Thousand priests. who produce nothing
hnt beautifully illuminated comics of ,he
sacred writings. They hold all th" puhli:
Offices
IN" nWuhrr of tiub"r slccporS On tho
railways ~ the world is calculaIcd To- he
ah"ut lfi"""". aud thor value is csti-
mated at about SmO,EUcn This tom
makes u serious drain on the timber sup
plioS of the world.
Though tn" ocean covers about three
ipurthS ~ thu surface Of tho Garth IT
docs not. in the same proportion. provide
for tho wants of man. 1t is estimated
that only about three per cent or the
I''oplc in tn" world oOtain their living
directly from tho sea-
An English naval cadet who on his
framing ship. took eleven first prizes. and
IN tn" first examination obtained rtuctN-
seven and siX-tonths per cont. ,Vts r.
j''t'd ii til" medical "Haniudtirn On &c
count Of a small defect in one li.tlo toe.
Tll" development of the dairy indus
try i'm the United States is scarcely
realized by business men In 1>9N the
butter haul over the Minneapolis Il st.
Louis railroad was 400. 400 pounds last
year il was nearly 1900 900, the gain
coming wholly from developments of
cr"am"rioS along tn railroad.
Last year coal constituted about 40
rcr cont Of the total tonnage Of the
American railways To carry a tom in
England from the Yorkshire coal fields
+" London. q distance of 15S miles. costs
$lN7. while coal is carried from the
Carboudalc co,d region in Illinois to
Chicago, 80 miles. for - cents a ton.
novelty in stoves is "a battlcshiJi
range with steel racks for preventing
TIA" pots and pans from going hcltcr-
SHELTER ia nigh son. and with ingon-
ious braces FOR holding the range it.
self in place.
Welding by clco tricity is brought to such
perfection. that Welding apparatus AN he
carried To Il railroad track ana two rails
joined as soldly as if they had come out
of the rolling mill ono piece
An interesting exhibit ut the 81 Louis
exposition is \ locomotive that mas rlin
cishty-tw" miles an hour in railroad yItd
tests. and another locomotive that pulls
Il train w'i@hirg four hundred tons at Il
speed Of siNtY miles an hour
recent mechanical wonder IS Il too-
Srll hio instrument which sends one thou
sand words minut" over lines g. thor
s"nd miles in length \ human operator
can transmit fifty words minute.
Tho ~. Louis exposition proves That tho
inventions and discoveries which arc do
ing uost to change tn" world are rldiun
the submarine boat, wireless teleGraphy.
the a"rnplau", tn" automobile and tho
gas producor-a Simple machine tu rc-
place coal for manufacturing usos.
over thirteen million persons 'r. ,u-
rolled u ia" Sunday schools of This ,riIu-
Try. I'm tn, public 4chool-. the ,urolhurnt
j. over sixteen million. or only tr"e mill
lion moro.
Georgia has h,ld tile had ill., tho .,o,Iu.-
tiou of p'arh"- for tho E'~t-rn market
s..' r"3. anI for >c.r- TO COM" i- ukfv
t. 10" the leading peach state IN Tho
luiuu 81. has over 7G6ooUp trD.s m.
supremacy Wa Wrc-itd from Nnr' md