The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-07-10

in Alaska and his winters in Patago-
MIA; the bobolink of the Middle States
winters in Brazil and travels 100 miles
over the sea at one stretch; the Amer
lean Gold Plover covers something like
10000 miles of territory in seasons
flight.
Our trade with Cuba is growing, but
our business with the Philippines is
falling off. The Philippine imports
show an approximate increase of 10 per
cent. last year. More than three-auar-
tiers of the trade was captured by Eng
lfsh and European competitors; our per
ccntage of the trade for 1902 was a
trifle less than rs, for 1908 a trifie over
%.
Argentina did a trade of s364, o00, 00O
with the outside world last year; we
got but s24.000,000 of it. There are
seven lines of swift steamers between
the Argentine capital and various ports
of Europe; all the connection we have
is by very ow-going freight steam
GERS. We have enormous resources
great skill, and all that, but are rath-
er much of a fizzle when 1t comes To
getting trade that is legitimately and
naturally ours geographically.
Our people expended during the last
fiscal year secs. 690.000 for tea. coffee
and soft drinks, and S1,24S, 000, 900 for
beer, whisky and wine, or $3.50 per in
divijual The average consumption OF
alcoholic beverages mot including pat
ent medicines) has grown from 1850
gallons to 1928 gallons per citizen in
twenty-three years. The use of cof-
fee has also grown from S.25 to 1913
pounds per inhabitant. But the use of
tea has somewhat decreased. One
fourth of our population uses alcoholic
beverages, therefore the annual outlay
for the drinkers is $62.16. How many
OF those drinkers have that sum in a
bank.
There are many arguments pro and
con as to whether the average work
man Is better off today than he was a
few years ago. He may have steadier
employment, but there is no question
but that the cost of living has in
creased so--not taking into considera-
ton the perhaps higher standard OF
living he INDUCES in-that 1t is almost
Impossible for the average man to save
anything from his wage. Manufacture
ed commodities are higher by 21.5 pei
cent than In 1897. Fifty raw com
modities, embracing meat, beans, eggs
milk, rice. ETC.. and copper. rubber, etc.
rose 33 per cent. above the thirteen
year average. OF twenty-six articles
In the lumber and building materials
twenty have gone above that average
Fifty-six of seventy articles of cloth
ing were higher by from threatening
of one to 90 per cent. OF fifty-three
articles of food thirty-five show an in
crease ranging from half of one to II
per cent. Bacon and salt pork have
gone mp AZ per cent, corn meal % pei
sent, herring 81 per cent Coal has
gone from 81 to "a per cent. higher
refined petroleum, SO per cent. Not
particularly encouraging figures.
The first police force in the city OF
New York was organized in 1868. II
comprised nine members. Their wages
were fifty cents a night, lone or two
beavers" and from two to three hun
bred sticks of fire wood" The cap
tain of the watch collected a dollar q
month from each house in order to de-
fray the expenses. From o'clock al
night until day break these men call
ed out the hour on every street cor
ner they also arrested anyone heard
to blaspheme the name of God, or any
one insolent or unreasonable in his be-
haviour" The present force is other
wise engaged
Birds, of all created things, have
the most acute vision and the sense Is
also more widely diffused over the re-
tinue than is the case with most ami
mails and consequently can see side
ways as we'll as straight ahead.
It is estimated that from 1000 B. c
until about 100 A. D., during which
period the Egyptians practiced theil
art OF embalming, something like 420,
900, 900 corpses were so treated. Thu
traffic in mummies is still very profita
BILE.
In New Brunswick there is a deposi
of natural paint so perfect that 1t need
no refining or manufacture. but Il
ready, with the addition of oil, for use
The first recorded glass mirror wa
made in Germany in the Fifteenth Cen
fury and the first glass mirror factor!
was established in Venice in the earl!
part of the Sixteenth Century.
After a fight between male ostriche
the victor always assumes paterna
care of the vanquished's brood. A rea
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