The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-24
If You Do Not Know,
 You Ought to Know That

We eat 90 per cent more bread in 9ln- teF than we do in summer.
 Andrew Carnegie has endowed l,O0o n- braries. The aggregate of his benefac- xions in that line reaches something like heecpae smart enough to be able to give sway that much money.
 The leg of a well-formed man should be hah the distance from tip to tip of his owtstretched hands.
 In Tinland thunder storms are wholly nnknown.
 gt is not unusual for ocean liners to take in over AsU,OOo of passenger fares an one trip.
 Railroad mileage of United States has reached 2Oe.000 miles of line; gross earn lngs for the year were sl.69i ,000,O0o. Opes- atinx expenses were N24s, ,OOoOoO. Both the operating and the earnings average have increased in the past year. One hundred and sixty-four passengers were killed in train accidents and 4.224 injured and e2s employes killed and $40 injured Casualties from other causes than train acc30ents swell the total to 32l passengers and e.233 employees killed and 6,s73 passen- gers injured and 5000 employees injured.
 1903 was an active year in the building trades. We have the statistics from 2i of the leading cities that show that in those cities 76.0H new buildings were erected costing $2s6. ,l2s (some of these bE1i}dingE. of course. are still under con- atruckion and will be so for some time ht6t the permits were originated in le0S). This total represents one per cent less shan for the year 1902. New York had per cent loss on its record of 1902, Chi cag0 % per cent loss, Philadelphia B Der can't gain, PittsbuFg per cent loss St Louis g per cent gain, Washington 33 per cent gain. Los Angeles S6 per cent gain. san Francisco 10 per cent loss. Atlanta showed the greatest gain of them all. 69 pnr cent while Chicago showed the Rneateet loss. The totals for the differ enk cities are interestinE-&930 000,O for New York, es4.00OyeO0 for Chicago, sas ,0OO. = 600 for Philadelphia, 600 for Pitts burg, &I4.000y000 for St. Louis. slS,99O,O ,OOe for Washington
 For the first time in years there has been q falling of in the 6Oe Canal traf- ne. But 34,67s,<N tons passed through the Canal this season, l,2Sg, 70g tons less than In 1902. As # stands its commerce ls three times greater than the Sue2 Ca. nal and it was confidently expected that AooQQ.Qo0 would be carried this last year
 Our mails travel 50o.0oo.0OO in a year on our own roads and waterways. There are sal1eo domestic routes of all classes foI the mails and extend over 507,000 miles The total receipts from all sources in the p0sfal service have been for 1903 s1S4,224,- zss, or ely660, 600 less than the cost of the service. lB,Ss9, ,6O2 900 pieces of ordinary mall were handled and so.OO0.O00 packages and pieces of registered mail. The trans porfatson of our foreign mail cost B. aSk0O0.
 Reports hays been received from all the oDantries kees;ing statistics and records klaak 5natined the estimate that there are 1eDa. .oa0.Do0 people in the world; that the aagEagate of the worlds commerce is S22. . e00noQ.D0D: that the revenues of these coun- tries equal S7.s64.0 600 and their expendi- fures S7,83s, ,000, 600; that the stock of money in the countries is $l2,oO0. .oOe, 600; that the largest imports of any nation are those