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Show FACTS AND FIGURES New York state bus the largest population, 0,:!85,2l;7, and Wyoming the least, V.y,Wl. In area, Texas, U';"),W)0 square miles, Is the largest state, arid Khode Island, 1,218 square miles, the smallest. The total fire loss for the country In V.)2 Is shown by the statement to have been $ Jti.Vl'XVXW. This Is about $1.G4 per capita. Ninety per cent of the storms which traverse the United States leave this continent In the vicinity of New England Eng-land or Nova Scotia. Out of 470,000 tons of shipping munched by the world In the quarter ended September 30, last, 307,000 tons were built In the United Kingdom. Veterans of the Spanish-American war, now drawing pensions from the government, number 45,055. There are 9,198 widows of Spanish war veterans. |