Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-03-22
Russia and Japan
At a Glance


at 500 202,6 and extraordinary expendi-
lures at SIS, 631, 121.
Japan's public debt is $206 zoe. 9e4. or
$5.i5 per capita Of population; Russia's 49,
Japan's exports from the United States
aggregate $2l, l62,477 annually; Russia's.
Japan's imports into the United states
100,
yapan's total exports annually aggregate
~l@4,-Vo, S2S; Russia's, 1865. 955, 242.
Japan total imports yearly reach a value
OF $l27. See. $50; Russia's. 1922. $50, oGa.
In one year In Japan 16S,976 arrests for
crime are made; In Russia, 6OS.974.
ia IN asss Japan n merchant navy included S
ing vessels and 1907 native craft; Russia's
in 1899 consisted Of 65T steamers and 2142
sailing vessels.
In 1899 Japan had 500 miles Of state rail-
ways and 1852 miles Of railways owned by
private companies; Russia had "a. 4S5 miles
OF railway, Of which 9,591 miles belonged 4
private companies.
Passengers carried on Japan's railway in
year totaled 9S,5ST, III; Russia's S3,70S,-
In 1900 Japan had 1889 miles of the teie-
graph, or 59, 1896 miles Of wire in operation;
Russia, 93,052 or 271 .o24
The total number OF kilograms handled
IN Japan in year was 15,5O3,7oo; Russia,
In 1900 Japan had 1852 miles of tele,
phone or 1928 miles Of wire; Russia had
30, 300
In 1900 Japan's postal service including
4,4O4 postediceS handled 1856, $50, $40 letters
and parcels; Russla's handled $50, 972, 81
letters and parcels.
Japan is 200 miles distant from Korea
from Moscow, Russia. the distance, as the
crow flies. is $500 miles
Japan has 11S separate, or 2,022 miles Of
submarine cables; Russia has TO- with to-
tai of $40 miles.
Japan's schools are Ron-sectarian. practi
cal, and tend to enlighten liberalism; Rus
sia's are ruled by a tyrannical religion of
which the Gear is the head.
The number of horses in japan at last
report was ], 1887 ,697; in Russia, 25, $4,000.
The number of cattle in Japan at the last
report was 100000; in Russia, 3I,4l3,-
The forests Of Japan cover 1861. 766
acres; Russia, 474 600. 900.
Japan's annual production Of silk. cotton
and other textiles Is valued, according to
last reports at 81 500 500: Russias cotton
industry proper employs more than 100000
looms and is valued at $2SS, 100000 year
Japan's postof1ces act as savings banks,
and, according to last reports, 1,565, 49s per-
sons made depe-its in one year aggregating
SIS $50, 1854; in the 6,351 state, municipal
and postal savings banks of Russia 3,oO4,-
140 depositors put total of $319,967, 600.
The Nippon Ginko, or Bank of Japan, has
a paid up capital Of S15,000.000, deposits
aggregating $4,000, SS4, coo, loans t0tgling ST.
329, 532, 400 and eight branch Offices; the
Bank of Russia has lib branches, capital
and reserve of more than $27, 500, 600, de-
posits and current accounts aggregating
over S173, 379, 600.
Japan's Mikado is the 121st descendant Of
the Emperor Jimmu, who founded the pres
ent dynasty in $50 b. c.; the reignlng fam
lily In Russia descend from Michael Roman
Of elected Gar In 1913.
Tobacco yields Japan an annual revenue
Of but 81, 463, 600; In Russia there are $780,
254 tobacco plantations and the manufac-
ture of tobacco, cigars and cigarettes ex-
ceeds 81, 250 tons annually, the revenue
yielded the government being near $25,000,-
900 annually.
Japan produces large quantities of sake
and SOW but little other spirits; in Russia
there are 2,O55 dstillerics, producing an
nually 2,245, 100 tors Of spirits, and LOTT
beer breweries producing Annually 115, $780,
600 gallons Of beer
japan sncures az annual revenue Of more
than 500 10000 spirits; Russia's totals
are more than $170,O00,O0O
In Japan the sale of spirits is regulated
by strict local laws; in Russia the Crown
has a monopoly In handling the sale OF
spirits in many provinces, the total guam
tity of vodka sold in a year at 301 spirit
depots In 20 provinces amounting 10 1865
Last reports give the total marriages in
Japan In one gear at All ,217, births 1,369,-
623 deaths Se4,437; In Russia S09,S74 mar
rIages. 4634, 800 births and S,O63,o4 deaths.
The average height Of japanese Is 8
feet inches; of Russian, feet inches.
The average weight Of japanese Is 100
pounds; of a Russian, ITO pounds.
The japanese have no oaths In their lam
Onage and never swear; the Russians are
55otorrsus FOR their use of explosives.
The average density of the population
throughout Japan is 296 to the square
miles: In Russia the average density, count
ing ali provinces Of the great empire, Is but
10 per square mile