The Minneapolis journal., 1906-08-10
The Beauty of Statistics


F THERE many men as women in the pro-
tectorate of northern Nigeria the population Of
that part of Africa would be increased 1,504 $50
(not counting the resulting natural increase) and
total population then would be exactly 142 213, 125
greater than the ad vaorem duty charged Jaggery
sugar in Ceylon.
If the 17,0S1 $50 quarts of preserves and iees i'm
ported into western Australia in 1904 were to be
placed on the top shelves the result would be the
breaking of s,271 legs of small children 1898 arms
and 1920 ribs The Jam if spread at average thick.
would be sufficient to put thin layer of jam on
lll03o9203 thin slices of breadthat is sixteen slices
to the pound loaf It would require 1852 pounds of
alum to produce this bread if it made bakeries
and the tax on this alum, if it were imported into
Sierra Leone, would be SPLIT.
If pkul of rice is worth $12 it would buy three
and onehaf muids of potatoes at $3.50 a mud the
prevailing price of potatoes north of the sixtieth
parallel or ten muids of potatoes at 40 bushel.
The pikul of rice could be traded for and two
thirds casos Of whisky at ST gallon 400 okes
OF neck steak at $40 cents pound
Ii L. G. Tooley, champion, should lure casting
with sohd rubber frog at Pokegama, Mmn, and cast
from there to Niagara Falls, equalng his record at
each cast it would take 2S429 SO casts or 2O69 10
in 1900. ---.-0--e
= (the number being arrived at by calculating one
rooster to every hens) to lay egg every
tour days thirteen hours and thirone minutes, and If
all the eggs were to be made into omeet the omeet
would be 1891 Isl 200 inches long, 1894 69O72o
inches wide, and 74S73, ,145,360 inches thick If the
hens eggs all ostrich eggs the omelet would be
S,3305o3,l33 yards and foot long, 99S 230 24D
yards wide and 2,776 794,5T yards and two feet thick
If the u.s. 765,6S0 pigs feet picked in the United
States In 1905 paid the import duty of $17S charged
ON sated and picked pork in Seychelles, and if that
duty should be divided by 13s, it would
equal exactly the number of hundredweghts of areca
nuts exported from Ceylon in 1905.
If there 432 291 persons the United States
and if 2,745 of them worth $1GO0,O00 each,
and if all the bills introduced during the session
of congress had become laws there would have been
new law for every 1916 persons in the United States
calculating on the basis that law applies to any
worth over 81 100000. ..--. ----..-.
If all the time wasted by the farmers of the United
States sitting rail fences and discussing
were used In plowng the yield of per would
be increased one-third of per per acre, whicn
would make the total crop 9S 43 ,564 934 bushels The
acreage would be increased at the ratio minus
three and threequarters extra, the calculation being
based on the fact that Charley Swartz of Mercer
county, Ohio, could be cured The total ACREAGE
then would be % 539,O15 92-1OO.
Ii hammocks we're abolished the number of October
marriages would be decreased 34.7 per cent, which
would mean exactly 734 fewer divorce suits in the
courts of the United States the next three wears
If all the tin that tied to the workingmen
of the United States in year real instead Of
hguratVe cans the tin plate industry in this country
would be increased per cent and the price of raw tin
f. b. at Singapore would be increased, which wou;I
add to the price OF the exports of the
Straits settlements.
=" If every in the United States owed as much
more than his share of the public debt of his country
does the writer of these statistics the total indeb
edness OF the people of this country would be O0
57441S64 or 1896 555, 900 than the national
debt.
If the wave motion of the ducks of the United
States could be utilized power counting that every
duck Waddles nine times minute eleven hours dav
and that the average weight of duck is 2 pounds 3
ounces the amount of power generated by this double
waddle every seven months would be 311 times
greater than the power generated by Niagara Falls.
Save the ducks.
If an Egyptian had bought May corn in the August
preceding Joseph corner, and sold every point
rise until April of the big famine year. he would
have been able to buy out Rameses and build pyr9-
mid nine and half times larger than the pyramid of
Cheops By judicous unloading in March of that
year he might have broken Joseph's corner.-Chicago
Tribune.