OCR Text |
Show facts In figures. Statistics prove that only one man in six who emigrates does so w ith advantage. ad-vantage. About 8,000,000,000 pieces of mail matter mat-ter are distributed by ijpstal clerks in the country yearly. The world's horse power represents a billion men, or double the number of workers in the world. For New Jersey is reported a total of 84,807 farms, with 313 abandoned farms, and an. average value per acre of $05. . DrHixo the nine months since January, Jan-uary, 191, 4iil,-Tt5 immigrants have come to the L'nited States, as compared with 851,399 during the corresponding period of 1890. , The budget for the ministry of the marine of Russia for the year lSt- estimates esti-mates an expenditure of 4ii.8'.0,'iT3 rubles, 5,500,000 rubles more than tha expenditure of the current year. From April 1 to October 1, 55.000 American residents crossed the Atlantic in the steamers plying between the ports of the United States and Kurope. A rough calculation has been made that each passenger spends, after his arrival, about Sl.Ooo (of course many spend much more), so the 55,0o0 tourists leave on the other side of the Atlantic S55,-000,000. |