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Show If , I FIRST OF THE ALMANACS. r v j The Chicago Dally New Almanac and Year-Book for li0i. Compiled by James Langland, if. A. Issued by the Chicago ' fl Daily News Company. This Is the first of tho new year's nl-,inanacs nl-,inanacs to come to hand. It contains the 'usual calendars, statistics, election re-, re-, n turns, and official rosters, with many spc-I spc-I clul features of ti1iio and usefulness. It ' 6 gives a list of all tho Presidents and their . Cabinets, of tho Speakers of tho House, i Mho internal revenuo and customs taxes, ' 1 how to obtain patents, immigration figures, I a list of the trusts, tho national debts of J j,thn world, the civil service Jaw, ronges or f, prices, list of colleges and universities, sporting records, the death roll of the . jiear. wealth of tho nations, tho Cuban ((reciprocity treaty, reports of tho South jAmerican republics, rosters of foreign gov-l gov-l ernrhents, "Men of tho Tear" (with por-' por-' ..traits), vessels of the U. S. navy, the army and the army staff law, tho pension lists, ";.'oal production, Governmental rosters, tho rpubllc debt, occupations of the American Upoople, rank and population of American t cities, notes on the States nnd Territories. I religious statistics, tho Alaskan boundary . award, labor, patriotic, fraternal and so-. ! 'clal organizations, progress of tho country 'since iax, railroad accidents by years, j 'chronology of recent wars, legal holidays, k 'plates of recent ldstorical events, railroad 'statistics, the naval prlzo fund, tho world's Vopper production, colonics and depen-( depen-( dencles of tho different nations, award of , tithe anthracite coal arbitration, tlio Elklns j ' jebate law, the Sherman anti-trust law, "tho Northern Securities decision, the 311s-i 311s-i ?Bourl ' beof trust" caso, newspapers of tho : Ivnlted States, statistics of population, and J n wonderful mass of desirable information. Jt is a compendium of pretty much cvery-I cvery-I vHliiay that one wishes to know, t . . |