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DISTANCES BETWEEN AMERICAN CITIES.

By the shortest usually traveled railroad routes. Compiled from the war department's official table of distances.

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Pittsburg..

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444 468 353
332 1.149 436 1.315
3,204 2,292 3,113 2,212
190 1.034 281 1,230
530 1,013 621 1,343
343 879 252 918
373 603 361
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St. Joseph, Mo..

1.392

470 1,301

1,065

284 974

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St. Paul.......

San Antonio..

San Francisco...

Scranton....
Seattle.....
Spokane.

Springfield, Mass..

Syracuse..

Tampa, Fla..

Toledo...

Washington..

Worcester, Mass.....

New York to

533 797 614 3.423 3,094 2,649 2,817 772 2,760 2,590 2,378 634 926 1.119

378 682 718 795 612 3.287 876 1,039 1,098 553 553 3,153 417 581 964 251 68 2.877 338 495 658 875 1,058 1,867 948 668 555 548 731 2,194 621 341 369 1,322 410 1.231 767 935 2,086 878 708 325 1,943 1.204 1,852 920 2.150 1,755 1,468 1.651 1,911 1,541 1,217 1.289 3,186 2,274 3,095 2,191 3,308 3,076 2,631 2,799 2,742 2,572 2,359 146 790 16 996 363 220 418 265 3,064 384 697 875 3,151 2.239 3,060 2,332 3,273 2,941 2,596 2,764 957 2,707 2,537 2,151 2,812 1,900 2,721 1,932 2,934 2,702 2,257 2,425 1,205 2,368 2,198 1,815 99 327 583 400 3,209 583 827 1,020

139 935 230 1,131
293 €83 310 879

350 392 331 148 2,957 418 575 768 1,195 1,309 1,104 1,187 1,425 1,007 1,297 1,405 3.310 1,269 1,053 1,394

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228 790 137 894
193 990 284 1,186

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458 40 437 438 3,064 302
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553 875 882 1,075

Miles. New York to

Miles.

..4.280 London

3.740

.1,350 Manila

.3.680 Queenstown.
.3,540 Rio Janeiro...

..13 358
3.250

New York to Miles. Singapore ... .11.762 Southampton......... 3,680

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San Francisco to Miles.

San Francisco to Miles.
.7.055 Manila
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San Francisco to Miles. I San Francisco to Miles 6.925 1,930 Yokohama............. 5,223

HIGHEST MOUNTAINS IN THE WORLD.

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FAMILIES, DWELLINGS AND OWNERSHIP OF HOMES.-CONTINUed.

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609 724 25 26

664 653

Nebraska..
Nevada..

New Hampshire

1,791 1.055

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736 1,333 25 51

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825 1,317

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499 1,749

591 1,158

New Jersey...

295 190

105 472

176 296

New Mexico..

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North Carolina. North Dakota..

169

213

Ohio..

846 971

111 68 43 116 51 95 3,767 1,990 1,777 6,053 2,564 3, 489 2,987 1.511 1,476 3,607 1,638 1,969 2,014 1,017 997 2,952 1,200 1,752 261 134 127 228 94 134 1,400 704 696 2,096 925 1,171

2,780 1,353 1,427 2,619 1.257 1.362

Oklahoma.
Oregon...
Pennsylvania..
Rhode Island..
South Carolina.
South Dakota.
Tennessee
Texas.
Utah.

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56 44 12 61 19 42 417 262 155 762 211 551 1,004 612 392 2,285 720 1,565 450 310 140 303 85 218 5,486 3, 287 2,199 9,946 3,751 6, 195 1.788 992 796 1,642920 722 168 94 74 256 135 121 4,466 2,452 2,014 6,080 2, 431 3,649 250 117 133 282 164 118 249 150 99 410 193 217 4,441 2,569 1,872 7,547 3, 103 4,444

285 182 103 583 172 411 1,102 617 485 952 500 452 280 161 119 430 191 239 2,400 1,170 1,230 2,626 984 1,042 919 2,316 1,152 1,164

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2,095 1,176

1,071 689

382 1,211 527

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Vermont..

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983 560

423 1,579 613

966

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2,217 1.260

Washington..

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374

168 206

1,946 1,049

887 526

West Virginia.

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Wisconsin

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Wyoming..

20 13

957 4,015 1,283 2,732 897 3, 402 1,337 2,065 361 1,738 862 876 572 990 512 478 3,325 1,678 1,647 3.766 1,776 1,990 991 69 30 126 70 56

1,250 678

Of the blind in 1900 57.2 per cent were males and 42.8 per cent females; 55 per cent were totally

Total....

7 29 9 20

64763 35645 29118 89287 37426 51861

and 45 per cent partially blind. The number of white blind was 56,535 and of the colored blind 8,288.

GOVERNMENT OBJECT LESSON ROADS.

According to the director of the office of public roads, department of agriculture, there are approximately 2,300,000 miles of rural highways in the United States upon which there is an annual expenditure of about $70,000,000. It is part of the duty of the office named to give expert advice in the methods of road construction and maintenance and for this purpose it employs a corps of highway engineers, expert road foremen and machinery operators for field duty. When a county or community desires to improve its roads application is made to the office on a form which is furnished upon request. This application provides that the

local authorities shall provide all materials, common labor, teams and fuel, and guarantee the right of way, the office furnishing engineering advice, surveys, estimates, expert supervision and road machinery. This method of instruction is known as the object-lesson road method. In all 113 roads have been constructed in thirty-two states, the larger number being of limestone, granite, gravel, trap and basalt and sand clay. The roads average less than a mile in length and cost from 5 cents to $1 per square yard, according to material used and other conditions.

AMERICAN TRADE IN FOREIGN CAGE BIRDS.

In the course of the year ended June 30, 1906, 322.297 foreign cage birds were imported into the United States under permit of the department of agriculture. Of these 274,914 were canaries and the remainder parrots, bullfinches, goldfinches, linnets, Java sparrows, Japanese robins, African

weavers, South American gray cardinals and other miscellaneous birds. Nearly all of the canaries came from Germany. About 100 English nightingales are imported annually, but few survive and fewer sing after coming here.

BENEVOLENT INSTITUTIONS IN THE UNITED STATES (1904).

[From a report of the bureau of the census, department of commerce and labor, Washington, D. C., issued in 1906:]

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The cost of maintenance by classes of all in- | homes, $3,039,035; institutions for deaf and blind, stitutions included in the above table was in $3,523,683; nurseries, $327,659; dispensaries, $519,1903: Orphanages, $10,050,587; hospitals, $28.- 620; total, $55,577,633. 200,869; permanent homes, $9,916, 180; temporary

THE HARRY K. THAW MURDER TRIAL.

Harry Kendall Thaw, son of a deceased Pittsburg millionaire, shot and killed Stanford White, a prominent architect, in New York, N. Y., on the night of June 25, 1906. The crime was committed at the Madison Square roof garden, where a new musical play was being performed. Thaw was indicted for murder and pleaded not guilty. The trial began Jan. 23, 1907, Judge James Fitzgerald presiding. The defendant was represented by Delphin M. Delmas and other lawyers and the state by District Attorney William T. Jerome. The jury was completed Feb. 1 and Feb. 4 all the evidence for the prosecution was in. The time from Feb. 5 to March 20 was occupied with taking the testimony of witnesses for the defense and of those called by the state in rebuttal. It was claimed

for the defendant that when he shot White he was temporarily insane and the feature of the trial was the testimony of his wife, Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, that it was the story of her ruin by White that caused his insanity.

March 20 Mr. Jerome moved for a commission in lunacy and March 27 a commission consisting of Peter B. Olney, David McClure and Dr. Leopold Putzel was appointed. These men found Thaw sane and the trial proceeded. The case was given to the jury April 10. After deliberating forty-seven hours and eight minutes the jury reported that agreement was impossible, seven standing for conviction for murder in the first degree and five for acquittal on the ground of insanity.

The cost to the state of the mistrial was $76,000 That to the defense was estimated at $225.000.

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