The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-09-11

to tho waite Of s5,ooo, 600; during the first
half OF this year $500, 90 900 worth Of build
ting was done. 1ncidently, Manitoba's
wheat from which Winnipeg derives a
certain slgnorage. Will yield tS,tHlcV9
bushels this year. .ss
storks ils many hundreds OF miles at
the rate Of 100 per hour: bees ny short
distances at the rate OF $50 miles an
hour
There Is q carnation farm IN l8 San Mon
Sica. alifornIa, OF twenty ores iii cxt tent.
and where 10000 blooms are cut every
day.
F,ifty-fivc per cent of the divorced wo-
men lii this country cart, their own
living, tllirty-two per cent. OF the widows
and thirty-ono per cent. OF the single;
women do likewise, while but SIX per
cent of the married women have any
ftilihS to do With the financial end Of the
livelihood making, though Heaven knows
most OF the others have enough hnstil lin
10 do. The figures would Indicate, how
evcr, Tint nihety-four pcr cent. OF the
married inen earn the family bread. @
There are fcw fences In Japan, ground 1
is too valuable, they plant mulberry
trees as division lines; there are 40 1000
acres 5of tliesc productive fences, De-
sides $1,000 acres of mulberry furns. The
Jap uses every inch of land.
The strikes lnfthe mines oil, Colora
have been tho means OF dropping llear ny
$40, 600 600 III that states and other peo;-
8ple's money. That Isl the Keeping Of
troops In the field, the loss of wages !, 70
the men and sother directly calculable
loss and expenses amount TO nat ~ Z ucl,
willie the Indirect losses to business.
caused by those strl kes to III the 81 . .irc
country, must amount 70 ~ lct's ll Y LA I've
times that sufe 3.
The increase In population during the
past 1 twenty-five years has averaged - Z
the II, .of lid per thousand per year n
tho United Kingdom, 89.S in Austria W. %.
In Hungary. 12.s in the German Empir Y;
g. a Sin France, and 10 in Italy. VI Will
thus be seen that OF all IS our Eur peani
friends france stands most In need 81 p
some Rooseyeltlan an Trace suietd j ~ ~
vice. 81 Y. 5 IA K s5
The Ncsaba 4 IRON Range iron lness
near. Duluth bid fair to- lose their pr es-S
stige MS tire grentost ore producers y, "
covered vast deposits OF iron ore on he
sNorWcgail/ Coast d els Sts Int warrant
the .aasertor that that section. Will be
the grentest rrodlic OF iron IN the world y
very shortly. There Is already one g m;S
S,,any that taking out tent nousa1id {.
tons of ore a dpyorc that casil Y runs Is
to 60 per cen I, pure g1z S8@
sss IL III expected that Oregon, Washing;
ton, ard idaho wi stlnarko Ct q GRO POT
As, 600, 900 bushels !lea Whtctl siss oouL
600 900 shy of Il the crop estimate made
some time e ,,:n !, I, ,s .as
this will be the crop lsrS thesej
Suites since hen q hco 4 ~
y 00, 900. q III .s
asI IL Tennessee there ;lrc 16, 900 men Il NJ
gagged TinElnining and they receiyet & iast
year $6,eO wa Ees, round II cures.
The average wa Sc pcl mn fls}SYas. ~ ~
per. ma par work. 1g day. and few had
work orginore I than go 3da The total
value o the product was SOC De-
Quoting wages and eXpslisess the 2 me
owners received about 50 o0o. COO IN prof :.
II 1893 the avera go Of persons X lied to$
every thousand empl Dyed sSin the mining
industries of the co unit vas 2,S3 ~ 3o. q
the fatalitie had V 49, s1.
New 81 ork spends about tyi ceE MS much.
FOR i t. amusement us for It's cd uca = ions
and fifteen times as much for ts$ drink a All
Tor III educa ton .s$3S 81 l
FL The most destrnct,yc epidemic tina I'll is
tory tells of WAS the Bla Ok ea lltt +,
Bin8the Fourteenth Century destroy ed D. 4,
100000 or people,
Thc#average speed M good wa IS
as d trine over three lies an hour hal
can be accelerated % q quic k-step # I hat
Ewill8averGge five miles an hour FOR short
dis stances. Long marches y over ever 4 t'1-5
&cellent roads rarely average over elglt cen
miles d day. lie ID vera &c peed. In svyln
ming is about thirty-nine Inches a s. &C.
#ond & a. skater from nine to ten I'd $ B Al
second Il; o,,Hskecs went our yards, and "a
jumping With skees forty YARDS l2o
feet Jump has been mac dc wit SIX ees---lce&
boats viii cover thirty-si SIX ,5y;lr ds a sec-
8ond !; bicycle sixty-six feet; he fast RUS
sian wolf-hound seYenty5tiye Get u ~ 81
sazel gelg htya1 feet; III an ostrich ninety
eight feet; u whale 300 yards ia MINI tie =
8thc European swa Ito W, Is. COO yards ~ m ir-
ute But none of N these It speed 81 ca ual
tina made by many small insec IS, i nus
D an African jumping mouse leaps throus u
tho air atYthe rate Of 500 feet a second
and tile common Il ga iu nlpsI q e q yelo tyS
81 SO feet n second. But I'LL theses speeds
Jade into$uttcr insi nitlcance wi hen co n, -
spared With the trayel OF clouds that
have been known to cover lfteen miles
a minute or an ca rthquake shock that
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