The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-04

There are 141.s51 schools in Japan. nearly three times as many as there were ten years ago. Three million boys attend them and 2,300,000 girls. The births average 32.1 per thousand. deaths POI per thousand. The general average of families of 5.37. There it is fashionable for the higher class of people to have large families, for the average for that class is 6.23. while in the middle class 1t is but AT and among the common people 5. Of 91o,-
 900 recorded deaths but 22o,ooo were of children under one year of age while 15a, 900 were people over 70, much better record than is offered by most countries. One hundred and twenty four thousand Japs emigrated last year to Hawaii, Korea, this country, etc.
 Other countries than the United
 States suffer from the extermination of
 their fur animals and feathered
 creatures. The Satan ape of New
 Guinea, a most beautiful fur animal
 yielded 175.000 skins in 1892. last year;
 spite of assiduous hunting and the in-
 centive of high price. but little over 50, 900 were killed. The white heron of
 South America Is fast disappearing.
 they are being destroyed at the rate
 of a million and a half a year and
 yielded last year $100.000 worth Of
 plumes to Argentina and $s0,000 to
 venzuela In London alone there are
 sometimes as many as 50,o00 humming
 birds skins sold in week.
 The Birmingham tEngiand) mint
 coins money for number of other
 governments. It recently turned out
 s15,o0o,000 worth of currency for
 Egypt. At different times 1t has done
 the coinage for Tunis, Canada, Turkey, China, Haiti, Venzuela and Chilli. It
 also made the first issues under Napo-
 leon the First for France and did the same for the Italian Confederation in the early 70's.
 Millionaires are getting to be as
 common as fieas on stray cat; report
 has 1t that there are 1000 men in the United States worth a million dollars
 and at least 2.oo0 of those are worth
 considerably over a million. In New York alone there are 2,316 known mill lionaires four of whom have $100,000.- 900 or more, fhree having $75,000,000,
 four have s50,ooo.00 and twelve over
 SIG 100000.
 Today there are 10,o00,000 men en- gagged in agricultural pursuits in this country, l.z0c,OUU III pEOicsHAohs, ofVoV,- 900 in domestic and personal service (both men and women in professions and service) and 100000 people in manufacturing pursuits 5,0p0,o00 of whom are engaged in manufacturing that is protected" by our tariffs. There are 5000 negroes in the ser vice of the government in this country and they draw little over $3.000.000 per year in salaries. There are thir- teen in the diplomatic and consular ser- vice and 266S of the others are In the l departments at Washington, and draw $2, ,653, 900 annually.
 Today there are still on the pension rolls the names of two widows and three daughters of Revolutionary sol- diers who served .in 17s3. and as relics of the war of 1872 we have one soldier | and 1,500 widows of soldiers.
 The longest stretch of straight-away
 railway without curve. cutting. or em- baukment is a section of 211 miles of
 the Argentine Pacific Railway from Buena Ayres to the foot of the Andes.
 The last fiscal year Spain imported SIP. 2.735, ,000 worth of all sorts of pro-
 ducts and exported $164.e0o. 900. a de- cided increase over any years show ing since the war with this country.