Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 118, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1918 — STATISTICAL [ARTICLE]

STATISTICAL

There are 556 war charities registered in London. In 1917 Alaska produced minerals valued at $41,760,000. ■ United States has 4,283,289 Methodists In Northern states. The Presbyterian board of foreign ■ missions has 1,353 missionaries on its rolls. ~ , Full sunlight is estimated to be 600,000 times brighter than full moonlight. About $500,000,000 a year is being spent on education in the United States. 4 Grekt Britain is using 200.,000 ash trees a year in the manufacture of airplanes. For home consumption Great Britain imports about 30,000,000 pound! of coffee annually. Out of a total world production in 1915 of 150,000 tons of rubber Brazil contributed 35,000 tons, or about 23 per cent. Sixty men a thousand are now being killed in the war, and about 150 men out of each thousand are wounded. The deposits in the 294 postal savings banks throughout Bulgaria have reached the unprecedented amount of $11,820,800. According to a statistician in Europe only two per cent of musicians are bald as compared with 16 per cent of men in other intellectual pursuits. The United States produced about 6.946,000 short tons of salt last year, the geological survey has estimated, an increase of about 9 per cent from the previous year.