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Agricultural products were also exported during 1900 in greater volume than in 1899, the total for the year being $835,858,123, against $784,776,142 in 1899. The imports for the year amounted to $849,941,184, an increase over 1899 of $152,792,695. This increase is largely in materials for manufacture, and is in response to the rapid development of manufacturing in the United States.
Taking for example an engine with 23 inches diameter of cylinder and 4 feet stroke, which will be 18.4 horse power the area of the cylinder will be 415.476 square inches, which, multiplied by 48, the number of inches in the stroke, will give 19942.848 for the capacity of the cylinder in cubic inches; 8 times this is 159542.784 cubic inches, or 92.3 cubic feet; 92.3 divided by 18.4 is rather more than 5 cubic feet per horse power.
Other fine pictures are a Spanish prince by Lucas van Leyden; an old Dutch scholar by an artist unknown, No. 784; and a young husband and wife by Joost van Cleef the Elder, and a Breughel the Elder, like an old Crome a beauty No. 928.
105 directorships in 32 transportation systems having a total capital of $11,784,000,000. 63 directorships in 24 producing and trading companies having a total capitalization of $3,339,000,000. 25 directorships in 12 public utility corporations with a total capitalization of $2,150,000,000.
According to the census of 1860: Slaves Kentucky had ........... 225,490 Maryland ............... 87,188 Virginia ............... 490,887 Delaware ............... 1,798 Missouri ............... 114,965 Tennessee .............. 275,784 Making in the whole .. 1,196,112 At the same rate of valuation these would amount to ......... $358,933,500
He thus presented his calculation of the cost of carrying out the bill as an argument against it: "In 1822 the ordinary expenses of the Government were $9,827,643, and in 1823 the expenses amounted to the sum of $9,784,154.
The expenditures during two years are detailed thus in the same report: For Civil List . . . . . . . . $50,000.00 " Permanent Settlements . . . . 18,000.00 " Legislature and Privy Council . . 15,281.63 " Department of Judiciary . . . . 73,562.61 " " Foreign Affairs and War 98,028.24 " " Interior . . . . 396,806.41 " " Finance . . . . 141,345.29 " " Attorney-general . 88,412.17 " Bureau of Public Instruction . . 88,347.79 $969,784.14 Balance on hand March 31, 1872 . . . . . . . $56,752.41 $1,026,536.55
The following table represents the process of expansion from the time when Ivan III. united the independent principalities and threw off the Tartar yoke, down to the accession of Peter the Great in 1682: English Sq. Miles. In 1505 the Tsardom of Muscovy contained about 784,000 " 1583 " " " " 996,000 " 1584 " " " " 2,650,000 " 1598 " " " " 3,328,000 " 1676 " " " " 5,448,000 " 1682 " " " " 5,618,000
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