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Show THE WORLD yol. NO. 21 AMERICAN FORK, UTAH, SATURDAY. APRIL 23, 1898. v. States put 90,100 , bat 1, 993,-000,0- 00 0; 0; 288,-20- 685,-000,00- 0. 0. ss man-of-w- ar THE SPANISH TORPEDO FLOTILLA equipments for foot and horse, tons of powder, 42,000 tons of ihot, and 1,022,000,000 cartridges. The loldler Is the best fed individual of his :lass In Europe. The British soldier 'ecelves for his daily ration 16 ounces f bread, 12 of meat, 2 of rice, 8 of Iried vegetables, 16 of potatoes, and nce a week he receives 2 ounces of ialt, 4 of coffee and 9 of sugar. In ;lme of war France puts 37 out of every 1.000 of her' population In the field, 160.000 .2,000 Russia 210. In the Crimean war of 1855 309,400 men went to the front, of whom 8,490 were killed in battle, 39.870 were srounded, of whom 11,750 died In the Germany 310. conhospitals, 75,375 died of disease toThe tracted during the campaign. cost war Tbe 95.615. were deaths tal The principal nations of the world have 2,291 warships, mounting 8,383 guns, mostly of very heavy caliber. The list of the world's battles comprises 1,527 regular engagements whose names are given as worthy ef reword. During the Mexican war the United and 170 other vessels that were attempting to run the blockade. From June, 1791, to November, 1813, the French .government enrolled 4,556,000 of whom men, nearly died in battle, of wounds or diseases contracted in the field. The expenditure for the German army In 1889 was 18,840,000, or about $190 per man. Of the aggregate sum 5.550,000 was for pay, 4,300,000 for food, and 1,200,-00-0 for clothing. Thepqbllc debt of the n empire is 5,620,185,-00- 0 florins, mostly contracted by the French war of early years of this century of the seven weeks' war with Prussia. The navy of Great Britain has men; France, 54,000; Germany, Russia, 29,000; Austria, 8,000; Italy, 13,000; Spain, 14,000; Holland, 8,000; Turkey, 39,000; the United States, 10,000. The annual cost of the British army is 17,000,000; of the navy, 14,000,000. Marengo called 58,000 men into action, of whom 13,000 were killed or crippled. The Spanish army costs 142,000 peTwenty-fiv- e setas a year. pesetas $5. equal The French army costs every year 675,000,000 francs; the navy 209,000,000. The United States army. In 1892, cost $46,895,456; our navy in the same year, $129,174,139. The army of Bolivia costs the people of that impoverished counThe annual try $1,800,000 a year. army expenditure of Greece is 18,000,-00- 0 drachml. A drachma Is about 20 cents. Italy spends every year 14,000,-00- 0 lire lire on her army. Twenty-fiv- e equal $5. Down to the Lear 1876 Krupp had delivered to varijua European nations over 15,000 cam on. There were 42,000 men on the fit Id of of whom 33,000 were killed or disabled. At Borodino 250,6 H) French and Russians fought and the dead and The esti-th- e wounded numbered 78,000. mated cost to both great $6,500, civil war In this coun autumn The spring 000,000. armies maneuvers of the cost annually over $10,000,000. In 1866 the United JjStaLea-- provost marshal general reported that 61,362 men on the union side had been killed In battle, 34,720 had died of their wounds, 183,287 had died of disease; total deaths, 279,376; total desertions, A partial statement on ths 199,105. confederate side declared that 133,821 men had died In battle of wounds or disease and 104,428 had deserted. During tbe war the union troops captured 476,169 confederate prisoners; the confederates captured three-fourt- war of During the What lomi ot tha Notabla Conflict la 1870-7170,000 French and l,003,0u0 History 11a Coat Data of Absorbing Germans took the field. Of the forInteract Civil War la tha Frost mer 41,000 were killed In battle, 36,000 died of wounds, 45,000 died of sickness, Spain Flotilla Float Coat 18,000,000b 116.000 were In various ways disabled, It li estimated that since tbe Chris- and 446,000 were taken prisoners.In ac-Of tian era began over 4,000,000,000 human the Germans, 19,782 were killed of their wounds, 14,259 beings have perished In war. The cost tion, 10,710 died were disabled. The 89,000 of sickness, of the worlds wars since the Crimean war has been $13,265,000,000, or enough prisoners taken by the French wero 684,000 to give a $10 gold piece to every man, very few In number. In all were killGermans and 133,751 French' woman and child on the globe. Duror disabled, a loss to the world of ing the most peaceful years the world ed men. 817,751 has 3,700,000 soldiers, who are withcost of the Mexican war was The drawn from the productive operations The total number of men $66,000,000. to pose as soldiers. The pay, equipworld's navies Is 237,000. In the In the ments, food and clothing of these men last 200 years France has spent costs the world's taxpayers nearly In war. It Is estimated that a day. The cost of our navy are 100.000,000 guns in the world. there during the civil war was, for 1862, At an average of $10 each the cost of 1863, $63,000,000; 1864, $85,000,-00the worlds rifles, shotguns and mus1865, $122,000,000. kets would be $1,000,000,000. During the civil war the Confederate During the five years that the Amercruisers captured or destrpyed 80 ships, ican 0 revolutionary war continued 46 brigs, 67 schooners and 8 other vesAmericans were enlisted, but there sels flying the American flag. The were rarely more than 30,000 in the number of men withdrawn from Indus- field at any one time. The national try to take part in the civil war on the debt of Great Britain at the revoluUnion side was 2,772,468, while the tion of 1688 was only C6G4.000. Since Confederates enlisted over 600,000.- The then it has Increased through war exexpense of the war department in 1862 penses to the enormous total of was $394,000,000; In 1863, $599,000,006; At Cannae, where the Romans in 1864, $690,000,000; In 1865, $1,131,000,-00sustained the worst defeat they ever experienced, there were 146,000 men In times of war the armies of Eu- on the field, of whom 52.000 were killropean nations can be raised to 9,366,-00- 0 ed. Russia spends 225,000.000 roubles men, and the daily expense will be a year on the army and 40,000,000 on nearly $20,000,000, to say nothing of the navy. rouble Is worth the destruction of life and property. nearly 75 cents, a paper rouble about During the last few months of the civil 50 cents. The reports after the battle war the expense of the government ex- of Waterloo showed that the British ceeded $3,000,000 a day. The destrucartillery fired 9,467 rounds, about one tion of stores and clothing by both ar- for every French soldier killed on the mies during the civil war is estimated field. The barracks built for Euroat $100,000,000. In 1881 English ships pean soldiers are generally far better brought to the bone factories of Eng- than the houses of the peasantry. land 30,000 skeletons of Turkish and Chelsea Barracks In England cost 245 Russian soldiers who had perished In per man. The engines of a first-clathe Crimean war. They were to be uti- steel cost nearly $700,000. lised as fertilizing material, after be- In the British navy the annual cost of ing ground to powder In the mills. AH maintaining a man Is 211. The averthe wars of Napoleon Bonaparte cost age cost of malntalng a man In the 255,000,000, while the wars of Louis American navy Is $1,500. Even little Napoleon cost France 142,000,000. The Belgium spends every year 46,000,000 former made the enemy pay most of francs on her army. At Bannockburn the expense; the expense of the wars 135.000 men fought and 38,000 were waged by the latter was borne by killed or wounded. France. During the civil war In this During the siege of Sebastopol the country, from 1861 to 1865, the Union batteries of the allied army threw Into ordnance department served out to the the besieged city over 30,000 tons of army. 7, 892 cannon, 4,022,000 rifles, 2,- - shot and shell. The cost of the artll- Franco-Prussia-n arch she gave to port put my bunk where the shore should ha been, and quite nafrally landed me in 1L "When she fetched back, I triad It najj HE Portia plunging along at agln; but with no more luck than ths her maximum first time. Ive seen many ships In the speed of ten knots trough, but they couldn't roll a sarcum-stanc- e an hour. The sea to the way that steamer flung beneath and the about, to keep above water. sky above were She acted Just like a woman possessed; both of an oily and the water kept floodin in at the blackness, and the port, till all of my cabin was Just WORST IN TWENTY." 735 schooners, 155 sloops, 262 steamers, men in the field, of whom 7.780 died of wqunds or disease. At Gettysburg 140,000 men fought on ASTOUNDING FIQURES THAT the Union and Confederate sides, of whom 8,000- were placed hors du comTELL A FEARFUL STORY, GREAT COST OF WARS. 305,000.000. o hs ln' and 65,-0- 00 0; Sa-dow- a, - i good-natur- COST $15,000,000. s well-develop- ed 0. the 1 an rs pitched stanch little steamer about seemed but the reflection of tha rolling clouds that scurried across the threatening sky under the keen lash of Boreas. Looks like a bad night, captain, Tom ventured. Tom was a favored passenger. He had shown himself humbly anxious to learn the art of navigation, and evidenced a keen appreciation of such crumbs of nautical knowleuge as the officers cared to part with in exchange for Toms excellent cigars; besides which, he was a good listener. He eagerly drank In their tales of the sea, and generously applauded all of the ancient mariners' Jests, old as Father Neptune, with which the captain regaled ua So the officers made him a bon camarade, and the captain patronised him. All of which accounts for Toms presence on the bridge, where lie ostentatiously posed, to be alternately envied and ridiculed by the rest of us less favored passengers. Bad night; nonsense the captain replied, loudly enough for some of us to hear, "ordinary March weather!" If that's the case," Tom replied, "I can only pray never to see a real storm." cried the captain; Storm, lad! lashln "wait till ye see the white-cap- s iroadsldes over the decks, and the boats carried off to leeward then ye can talk of a storm at sea. Tom heard us snickering over the snub, and braced himself for the occasion. I suppose youve seen some fearful ones, captain, be hazarded, deferen, tially. , "Oh, nothin so er well, yes," the twin captain replied, a kle lighting his eyes. "Come to think ont, I did see one a turble storm, I assure ye. "Do tell me about It, captain.1 We, who were huddled on the hurricane deck, crowded up close to the rail of the bridge, In silent expectation. "Well, there Isnt so much to tell savin that that was the only time as I lery firing and the value of the guns 212,600 union men. Of the latter 29,725 ruined and condemned Is estimated at died In confederate prisons, while 26,' 774 confederates died in confinement. $12,000,000. During the Franco-Prus-siwar the Germans fired 30,000,000 rifle cartridges and 363,000 charges of A Singular Monstrosity. A writer In Science describes a curl-ouartillery, killing or mortallly wounding 77,000 Frenchmen, showing that monstrosity which has come under 400 shots are required to kill or morhis observation. This Is a cock with tally wound one man. It Is estimated no signs of spurs upon the tarsi, but that the world's cannon has cost the with a couple of spurs a little over $40,000,-00world's upon the head, on either side of the comb, giving the creature the appearAt Waterloo there were 145.000 men ance of being horned. These mock on both sides, of whom 51,000 were spurs are not attached to the ekullL killed or disabled. whatever they may originally have loose. but are Instances The army and navy of the Argentine been, are on record of spurs being grafted on Confederation are fcept up at an annual cost of $13,000,000. The wars of to the combs, but, so far, no similar the last seventy years have cost Rus- case is known to have occurred In nasia $335,000,000, and the lives of 664,000 ture. men. After the surrender of the Cat tha Lost Bolt. Turks at Plevna the Russians took who were tearing down a bridge Men possession of $17,000,000 worth of over the Erie canal in Utica, N. Y arms. Denmark spends every year and ignorantly on structure the stood 16,000,000 kroener on her army and held it up. The which bolts the cut navy. A kroener Is a little over 25 was man one killo I ant and fell bridge union civil war cents. During the the several injured. seriously blockading fleet captured or destroyed tax-paye- that lifted awash. waves Austro-Hungaria- 16,-00- ow, v ed HUNG TO MY BERTIL every got very seasick. Oh, ye neednt remark upon it; the best of us come so once in a while, and I think I got enough of it then to last a man a lifetime. It was a good many years ago. nav was only a purser then, igatlon. Wed touched for the day at Halifax to unload and take in cargo. Id put in a pretty bard day on the wharf; and uie evening I spent at the Squadron, samplin a u. s of port or two, with maybe some Scotch, for good measure. We was to sail at break o day; and about an hour afore it I helped our steward to gc--i aboard, onsartalnly reached my own cabin and turned in without much ceremony, but with most of my other clothes on. I reckon Id slept as rweet as babe for mebbe an hour or upwards, when the chug of the drivers woke me, I calkerlated as bow the era was get-ti- n Its back up pretty high, from the way she thumped and rattled, but Id no idee what a storm was on till I see ws was rollin ports under. My porthole had been left open and the water slushed In every roll, fit to swamp the steamer. Soons I saw it. tumbled out and fetched up agln the upper deck, with one leg out of the porthole, which I mention Just to show how she rolled. Of course, the next I hung to my berth for dear life' my kit sake, about, and then I begun to get seasick. Begun, did I say? There was no beginnln; It Jlst quite overwhelmed me, and I gave right up well, most everythin. Give up tryln to close the lunch port, give up my but to mention not the wine, ashore, give up all but my hope o dyln. Bym'by I heard a pound at my door, but I hadnt the spirit to answer; and after another poundin or two, our second mate broke the door in. see he. What in Is she fillin V sea I. " Taint yer fault If she isnt,' sea my port and closin IL he, In thunderd you open Itt sea Why on me furious, and then he, le sees the plight I was In and 1 thought he'd bust laughln. " Nothin to laugh at In such a storm, ses I, as mad as if scrapin' four-doll- ar mainmast " Storm! ses he. 'Where be It? We aint stirred a foot from Tobins wharf, and wont till tha fog blows out he. "But the cabins afloat from the seas, ses L "Seas be blowed, ses he, with grin; wea Jlst been scrubbln the decks down. Tha FrambUng Filter at Bhalma. The famous trembling pillar at Rhelms, In France, presents a curious problem to architects. The Church of Saint Nlcalse Is surrounded with pillars constructed to prevent straining of the walla At tbe entrance of the church Is a bell tower. On one of the bells in this tower the phenomenon of the trembling pillar depends. When this bell Is rung or even touched, the top of this pillar sways. It goes and returns about seven inches on each side Although the base of the pillar Is Immovable, and the stones are so firmly cemented that It seems like a solid piece of stone. An authority, who states that no satisfactory solution of this peculiarity has been given, writes: What is very singular la that though the four. bells are about tha same distances from the trembling pillar .only one of them has any effect upon It The others may be rung singly or altogether without moving 1L In 1775 a little window was made In the roof opposite the pillar. A board was placed on the top of the pillar, and on It were put two glasses of water. Then the bell was rung. Immediately the pillar began to sway, and on the fifth stroke of the bell the two glasses were thrown off. The ringing of this bell has no effect on the pillars between the phenomenal one and the tower, nor on any of the others. But formerly It was the first pillar which swayed, then It became Immovable, and some years ago the one next to it became the eccentric one. Japanaaa Woman. Naturally there are no figures more perfect than those of the Japanese The children, up to young women. the age of fourteen, or as long as they have the free use of their limbs, arc models of symmetry. About that time they begin to fasten long garments about their hips, the effect of which Is to impede their gait and give them an awkward shuffle. In course of time It does worse, and Interrupts the development of the legs and thighs. Among the laboring class an additional misshaping Is accomplished by the practice of carrying burdens from an early age upon the back, for the support of which broad straps are passed over the shoulders and crossed In front, pressing directly on the breasts. When a Japanese girl reaches tbe age of sixteen without having undergone either of the processes of deformity, she is a wonder to the eye, and remains so or possibly a little until twenty-fivlater; then she ceases to charm for a certain period in any way, excepting by her manner, and that is generally preserved to the last. But. as she grows old she has a chance of becomThere Is ing quite delightful again. a and than nicer dignified flothlng d old Japanese lady. She is always happy, for she is always much respected and cherished by her juniors, and at a certain age the natural high breeding of the race appears In her to attain its crystallization. e, white-haire- |