Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1894 — WEALTH OF THE WORLD [ARTICLE]

WEALTH OF THE WORLD

Austria is wor'h £4, 00,100,000. Russia is va’w d t £5,000, 00,()o i. Ti E bank capital of France is 2 , 00 ‘.OO ;. The bank apital of Great Britain £910,000,000. All the property of Italy is assess at k. 3,000,; 00,000. In l p ßs Great Britain had £527,000,000 loaned abi oad. The United States is the richest country on the globe. France is worth, all property considered, £8,000,000,000. The public buildings of England are valued at f 2'0,000,000,000. The United States has $22 to each inhabitant in the savings banks. The United States has 11,000,000 houses valued at $14,250,000,000. The United States stands ahead of all nations in the value of cattle. The houses of Rome are valued at $225 per inhabitant, or, £14,000,000. England has 360,000 shops, which pay an annual rental of £18,900,000. Of the houses of Great Britain 2,700,000 have been built since 1840. OVER 41 per cent, of all the property in the German Empire is mortgaged. The savings banks of Russia have only 50 cents to the inhabitant on de posit The world annually manufactures $3,200,000,000 worth of textile fabrics.— Herald and Presbyter.