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Show TOLD IN FIGURES. The queen reigns over one continent, 100 peninsulas, 500 promontories, 1,000 lakes, 2,000 rivers and 10,000 islands. The British osvn 25,000 sailing vessels and 12.000 steam vessels. The annual entries into the ports of the t'nitcd Kingdom are 300,000 vessels. Greater Glasgow is often held up as a model municipality. There is something some-thing in the claim. With a population of S53.O00 it has only 404 doctors. The British empire has an area of 11,400,000 square miles and a population popula-tion of 400,i.i00,000. The British empire is six times as extensive as that of ancient an-cient Borne in its palmiest days. Pennsylvania produces hardware manufactures to the value of $33s.noo,-000 $33s.noo,-000 yearly, which is equivalent to S71 per inhabitant, the average in Great Britain being S19 and in Germany $10. Recent statistics show that the English Eng-lish citizen's, heaviest bill, after food, rent, clothing and drink is his gas bill. Hncland pays $100,000,000 a year to the cas companies, and it is calculated that the gas companies realize a profit of s'20. ono. 000 a year. |