Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1904 — FACTS IN FEW LINES [ARTICLE]

FACTS IN FEW LINES

Russia bas almost three times the population of Japan. The 00,046 police of the United Kingdom oust nearly £7,000,000 a year. The Japanese government is said by trustworthy authority to have 300,000,000 yen available for war purposes. The Italian state railways, according to a report from Rome, will soon place orders for 200 locomotives and several thousand freight cars.

'Liverpool has closed one-third of Its 'Saloons during the last ten years and so decreased her police force in consequence as to have made an .economy of #40,000 yearly.

During the last six months Ireland sent to Great Britain 148,101 more cattle, 108,160 more sheep and only 742 fewer horses than were received from all the rest of the world.

To honor the memory of Emilio Castelar, the celebrated republican orator and former president of the Spanish republic, his friends Intend to raise a monument to him in Madrid. Work is to begin immediately ou the -erection of a large museum in Ottawa to be called the Victoria National museum, ■which is to be the center of literary and scientific work In Canada. The Russian government has granted ftennlsslon to three foreign companies to cut wood for three years in the northern province of Archangel, the •exports not to exceed $23,800,000 in •value.

Revolving doors are being removed from public establishments in Berlin t)y order of the police. The reason for this order Is that the police fear the revolving doors would not permit speedy •egress In case of fire.

Last year there were 50,150 applications for patents at the patent office in ■Washington. Of these 20,892 were granted. The receipts of the office were $1,500,000. The patent office is the only government bureau that is operated at A profit

The foreign commerce of the United States for 1903 was larger than that of any other year in the history of the country. It amounted to nearly $2,450,000.000 as against $1,714,060,110 In 1893, $1,547,020,316 In 1883 and $1,164,616,132 in 1873.

Twenty-seven viaducts on the Uganda railway have been completed by the American Bridge company. The work ■was accomplished In one year and seven days. About 6,000 tons of steel have been used In the construction of bridges and about 500,000 feet, broad measure.

The bubonic plague continues Its ravages in India. For some time the average number of deaths per week from tills disease lias been over 25,000. One week the deaths mounted to 29,647. It is estimated that since 1890, when the present siege began, over ■2,000,000 have died from the plague. Although the late Lord Salisbury was much interested in science and was a fellow of the British Royal society, be never approved of the extreme views -of some of his associates. He was particularly opposed to the theory of evolution as taught by Herbert Spencer and of the descent of man as enunciated by Charles Darwin.

Idaho will make an exhibit of minerals at the world’s fair that will call attention to that state’s wonderful resources. Her unrivaled exhibit of 200,000 opals is now overshadowed by the report that big discoveries of radium have recently been made. Executive Commissioner Hurtt is arranging for a display of this newest wonder. There are 190,227 professional beggars in Spain, of whom 51,948 are women. In some of the cities beggars are licensed to carry on their trade. Seeking aims is recognized as a legitimate business, and the municipality demands a percentage upon the collections. Seville Is the only city in the kingdom Which forbids begging In the streets. Enameled brick, the entire product of which was valued at $471,163, was made In 1903 only in California, Illinois, Maryland, Missouri, New Jersey, Ohio and Pennsylvania. New Jersey and Pennsylvania, with products respectively of $202,740 and $57,183, were the only states in which there were three or more producers of enameled .brick.

The standing armies of the world •rand Its navies aggregate 9,300,000 men. In case of war the European nations can raise their armies to 9,800,000 men. Chinese soldiers get $1 per month and board themselves. Between 1791 and 1813 France raised armies that numbered 4,556,000 men, three-fourths of whom were killed or died of wounds and diseases contracted in the field. Is It any wonder that the Frenchmen of today are undersized?

In a recent dissertation President Slllot of Harvard stated that “the "whole store of knowledge now available is too vast for any man to master, though he had a hundred lives Instead -of one, and its growth in the nineteenth century was greater than all the thirty preceding centuries put together. Culture, therefore, can no longer imply a knowledge of everything, not even a little knowledge of everything. It must be content with general knowledge of some things and a real mastery of some small portion of the human store.’’

Forging la made easy, according to a Boston bank official, by the new system of vertical writing now being teoght In the schools. This official aaya that when the system Is firmly established every person will write alike. Any man can write a "John Smith” that no cashier can tell from the signs to re of the name’s owner. It would seem that the experienced and aAdent forger has as much cause as the bank official to object to the ays* ten. It opens the door to cheap com* petition and reduces forgery from • fine art to the level of day labor.