Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1919 — STATISTICAL NOTES [ARTICLE]

STATISTICAL NOTES

England’s prison population before the war was 18,000; now 9,500. United StatesSt eel corporation pays some skilled workers a day. American Library association has sent 1,000,000 books to s-cMigrsT In France. ,• New York committee will in January undertake to raise $30,000,000 for Ariqenian and Syrian relief. Russian economists figure on paying their country’s debts from the pro* ceeds of 1,125,000,000 acres of timber tn Russia. Brooklyn. N. Y., must in the next five years pay $5,655,962 more for ash and garbage removal than in the previous frve-yearperiod. Life Insurance carried In the United States at the end of 1917 exceeded $60,000.000,000. The largest payment ou a single life is 1917 was $843,000, in the case of Frederick R. Hazard of Syracuse, N. Y. - . —— ? *• To keep American soldiers in “smokes” the American Y. M, C. A. canteens in France required 200,000,000 cigarettes and 4,500,000 cigars monthly. In a single order the Y. M. C. A. recently shipped 1,337 tons of tobacco overseas.