FAMILIES, DWELLINGS AND OWNERSHIP OF HOMES.-CONTINUED. 1,791 1.055 736 1,333 609 724 25 26 Nebraska... Nevada... New Hampshire 591 1.158 New Jersey. Louisiana 1,071 689 Maine... 724 386 Maryland 983 560 Massachusetts. 2,217 1.260 Michigan.. Minnesota.. 1,946 1,049 887 526 1,250 678 382 1,211 527 684 957 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 99) 69/ 30 126 70 56 Of the blind in 1900 57.2 per cent were males and 42.8 per cent females; 55 per cent were totally Montana.... New Mexico. North Carolina.. 56 44 12 61 417 262 155 762 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 2,095 1,176 919 2,316 1,152 1, 164 89 343 156 187 207 118 GOVERNMENT OBJECT LESSON ROADS. ap According to the director of the office of public roads, department of agriculture, there are proximately 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:] 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. $8,125,790.00 $8,108,010.00 $8,808,210.00 $9,457,810.00 $9,447,290.00 $9,930,440.00 581,500.00 581.500.00 581,500.00 581,500.00 39,129,035.45 733,457,907.72 732,883,384.16 785,265.421.03 786,200,873.03 769.662.359.63 712,339,566.15 *No river and harbor act passed for 1907, TOTALS FOR SIX LAST CONGRESSES. 1,000.000.00 27,173,299.01 770,062,359.63 739,512.865.16 149,886,320.00 140,076,320.00 919,948,679.63 879,589,185.16 Years. Amount. 1905-1906 $1,600,053,544.8 .1906-1907 $1,799,537,864.7 |