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Show imjiimi ithtint ot i in: (inrtT iti.rriii ic, Tnr. Iiondan Standard treakt of almanacs as a tubtldiary branch of American Journalism, and likens the New Voik HorW almanac for thlt year to thoKiigllau HAtfuIcr; characterizing It at n "detailed centut of Uncle fam's peoplo auJ an Inventory of hit belonglugt." According to it the assessed value of real and ptrsonal (roperty In the United States It 1:3,0)0,000,000, making mak-ing a per i aj ita alue of about$lJU. 1 hero were drawn from the earth last )ear lu mlueral producta within thla country ?50,'W0,l)0. We have lDl.nuO mllea of railway orated lo the tune of 11,000,000,000, Tha Standard Oil Company pumped from the earth lu 1891 91,000,000 barrels of oil, and :o,Vi)0,UO0 worth of natural gat wat told by another company. Jay Uouldowni;l3,OH)mllra of lelrgrapll wire. The emliexrleiiienla for last year amounted to $3 1,000,000. All tblt the Auncfarff ttket paint to thw It confined con-fined to a few favored cltlxens, Thu United Statu hat SJ.OOO soldiers, nnd 7IM pensioners to whom $loO,flon, 010 annually Is paid. Thorn are still pensioner! of the war of 1812, and rt few score from the vt ar of tho revolution. revolu-tion. Tradet iiulonlttt connected with the American Federation of Labor number 075,000, Just 2,000 lose than tho iieusloneit. There aro lu thirteen Htatea eight hour labor days applicable to publlo worka, but they nro rarely or ever apt Hod. Wyoming glvet woman conilcte tullrage, Washington when a Territory Terri-tory gave woman the auflrage for five ) cars, but when ttatohootl wat awunicd woman tulTrage waa discarded, The women, however, havo taken their cue to the Supreme Court. In Kanaat 00,000 women voted last year In muni clpal elections. Congresi deprived Utah women of the franchise. Women have a school aulfrago In Iwenty-thne Hlsttt, In Montana they can vote on queillont of local taxation, lu Arkansas and JlliMiurl on tho liquor question, In New Vork and Pennsylvania on local Improvements. Altogether twenty-nine twenty-nine States have extended the tullrage to women In one form or other. Tho Standard expreaact aur rle at the amount of Information In relation topolltlcallnduttrlal and trade mat ten contained lu tho alrnauac, aud onlydliputea what It said In regard to thogrettnettof tho World at a newt-I""!'. |
