Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 218, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1910 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

There are 1,990 Young Men’s Christian associations in Germany only 1,039 in America; yet, where the German associations have but 117,000 members, the American have 446,000. And German association property holdings have a value of *2,400,000, contrasted with a value of *40,006,000 in America. Belfast is well supplied with Presbyterian churches and linen mills,- but hasn’t a single cigar factory. The Belfast men uped to smoke nipes exclusively; now a good many of them have acquired the cigaret habit Ireland’s one lone, lorn cigar in Dublin. v N ,V The wealth of the United States in 1850 was *7,000,000,000, speaking in round terms; in 1860, *16)000.000,000; In 1870, *30,000,000,000; in 1880, *48,500.000,000; in 1890, *651)00,000,000; in-1900, *88,500,000,000. and in 1*64. *107^)00,000,000. Though Finland has been regarded up to the present as being extremely poor in iron ores recent reisarclwlw proved the existence of* ore fields Hh Finland. - - Phone your "Want" adv. to The Republican,