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


If YOU DO NOT KNOW YOU
OUGHT TO KNOW, THAT
Russia Is lucky I'M one thing. at least,
4 her grain crop this ycsr is larger than
1T has been for many, many seasopa, her
wheat and other grains fl the Eastern
part Of her European possessions a!ois
will aggregate nearly billion bushels :
,rlic salmon fisherica 4of the Northern
Pacific. aspu,d about Vancouver pnrtic,i-
larry, are u failure This season Tile catch
Will aggregate iess than half aof last
years, which, too, was under the normal
1'harc arc standing orders for over 100, \
900 servants III the city of New York..
The authorities at Ellis Island are boz
seiged by people who wish to procure
Immigrants for domestic service. Tho
officers state they could place 40, 900 Tins
migrants as domestic servants within
three fours after arrival.
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trwcnty years ago the people Of Wis
sconslt and Minnesota boasted that they
had timber enough Il q supply the country
for an hundred years. Owing TO ruthless
and extravagant ciittlng and forest ilresI
those same people arc buying their tim-f
Der to-day from Oregon, North Cnrolinas
and California. The forests OF tho far
West arc being devastated In tho same
ruthless manner, and now on top Of tile
3dcpredations OF man como forest fires
ithls season that surrass all records. Mil
lions upon millions Of feet II inagrin-T
cent lumber have already been destroyed
The smoke from these fires is so dense
that navigation upon rivers hundreds Of
miles distant is seriously impcdcd.
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Statistics. are Queer things at best md
wonderfully easily juggled to the interest
and advantage q. polit'c clans and the, the
crafty ones OF Garth writer sometime
ago compared tho cost OF government In
the United States and lin New Zealand
much 10 the advantage Of the latter colrl-
try that was cited as costing each liz
slinbitant $33. 80. while the per capita cost
In the United States is but 81. 81. a
matter of fact the figures given for. News
Zealand comprehcndsf all the cost OF GOV
Snent. WILD that Of the united s. ates Sis
but the cost OF federal government, and
to which must be added the cost Of State
and munialpal government. In the Dis
strst Of Columbia. 81 as q n x cxaf lie. II the
cost Of government Is so per ca PHI Ia and
tho estimates for tile next year rails that
cost to $40. making The "a strict, u that
rcsnert the hlgle.t priced pI PLACE On earth
There have been cot suicides IN the
United States during the last thirteen
years; Al physicians s5shuhlcd off during
the pas yea "a grea ter number thansinA
any other one .prof ession. Prior TO ~
pistols were In VOGUE ss to- day. poison Is
the fashion. particularly L ca rbolicl acid. 3e
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New York, tia I'll Ii 81 Manhattan and 1
Bronx. consumes go, 90 OO0 gallons of 4
icroton water a q q nd IT, needs Gand is 4
planning to 1eo 600. Coz ga lone nlore
.day Is 7.o7 per- capita; III 1900 A was 6. 3D.
III 'a7 1t was $50 In 4, 80 81 was and 4
,eO;it was SOL 4
Taking an hundred MS The basis q snour--si
sishmcnt in foods, VIII ole VIII ca 7 bread con.s
stains 90 corn meal and beans s., rice sG.5
ost meal 81. cheese s.. and n eats only
m Die square mile Of London city there
~ Az al urchcs with, seating capacity
for %, 900 people Tho ministers draw
tsa17, 900 a year ard the cost Of nainta In
ing the churches Is t31 8, 600 = here are
fewer than Is people "a tendin s each SER
vice In each church ere a re IL o0o
cilces or fhc Church Of En- Eland Or tina
number or pastors and churc les, goo q =
them pay $50 a year, 500 of them pa ~
$500, and 300 pay less than $3.50. Some pay
very handsome stipends for exceedingly
little work. One OF tiese ministers gets
5000 a = ear out of which he pay = o. c,l-33
rate $500 to do his work and has not
been near Ills church for O twenty
years, lss
Every tenth man you meet in France
holds some y ortsof governmental
ISL IT costs 50 cents n gallon to produce
California wines; the French mako the
same quality Of goods in, "a giers for ~
cents. a of California proc l.ces but g
,OOl 900 gallons Of vine per; yea 3 ordea ux.
alone produces nearlya ia billion ga lions.
South Africa loses this Yea llea II one
hnlf theS va lue OF her normal export ofSS
wool owing to the q epret atiolis q jack
ais, NOT the Eng lsl spscies but the four
sfoote spnes
v nereasc l,op,.latttiton at tho
rate Of bout half NIL Ion people A g.
year. 3Ssis ,35 81 g
IN yNinnineg here were $40 people In
1871; ere nearl ~, l.0o, here
were buil dings erected there last year
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