The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-07
MARLEY % BAUMAN.
 1924 list Ave.
THINGS TO KNOW.

For the year ending June 50. 1904, there were 2S3,S22 miles of railway track in operation, increase of nearly 10000 miles during the year. There were 43,- S1 locomotives in operation, an increase of 2,646 over last year. We also had 1,753,S9o cars of all descriptions, an in crease 11S,OoO during the year. The num- Der of persons on the payrolls of the rail , roads of the United States that date was l 1,3l25S7. an increase of 123.Oo0 during the year. The amount of wages and salaries paid was $757,S21. 415. The par value of railway capital outstanding was $12599,- 990. 25S, or 8 capitalization of $63,1S per mile. The number of passengers carried was 694,S91,0O0, an increase of 45, coo and the number ot tons of freight carried was 1,904.S94 323, which exceeded the ton age of the preceding year by 104000, 900 tons. The average revenue per passenger per mile was 2.006 cents while the average revenue per ton per mile was 90. 763 cents, revenue per ton per mile was 0.763 cents, The average cost of running a train one mile appears to have increased between s and cents, the ratio of operating ex- penses to earnings 6616 per cent. is also an increase. The gross earnings of the railways of the UDited States for the
 
 greater than previous years, while the operating expenses were 1,257. 523,S52 or $141, 290,0 900 more than last year.
 The finances of the wear ending June 30. 1904 as reported by the secretary of the treasury are as follows:
 Our governmental receipts from all sour ces reached $541 ,1S6.745 dhey were esti- mated at $530, 000,000). Our expenui.ures reached s527, ,936,071 (estlmated at s516, ,000- COO. These figures take In all receipts and expenditures, civil and miscellaneous exclusive of Panama Canal purchase and the loan to the Louisan exposition.
 Forty years ago there was no news raper in Japan; today 500 are published, some having a circulation of over 10O,- coo copies Q day.
 Our cotton crop. large as it promises to be, Is but half of what 1t ought to be. and the boil weevil is to blame and each pair of the little cusses Is good for mll- lions and millions of progeny.
 There are 10000 oil and other paintings now on exhibition at the St Louis expo- sition, of this number 1900 are by Amer ican artists. In the gallery Of sculpture France has 250 pieoea Italy 100, Great Britain 10, Belgium 6a Russia 50. Japan 75, Germany 100.
 The largest library of shs wurid is that Iof Paris. It has 1No, 0oovolunes, i80.- eco manuscripts. eoo.oOo uapss and 15O,- GOO coins.
 statisticians claim tnaA 4ha earth will mot support Co exceed 6,seAooo GOO peon1e At the present rate of our increase we inhabitants of this mundane sphere. this vale of tears etc., may expect to reach the limit in the year 2072s What then?
 More than ninety per cent of tho busi- pes of this country is done hx ohecks,
 The increase of wheat ana oats pro- duction is not at all keeping pace with cur increase in population. The wheat acreage this year Is actually smaller than in any one of the three preceding years. The cause of this shortage and our ultimate dearth of food products is clearly seen when we note that the in- crease in our population of towns and cities Is at the rate of 49 per cent. per decade while the increase of the rest of the United States. the farming districts, is but 14 per cent. in decade.
 Miss Faith Moore of New York seems to hold the record as paving the highest rent for a flat in New York-sl5,0O0 per year.