In a monograph on "The Conditions of the United States," issued by the Bureau of Statistics, it is stated that our area has grown from 827,844 square miles in 1800 to 3,025,600 square miles in 1902, exclusive of Alaska and the islands of the sea.
The Southern Education Society has issued its protest against the child labor which has been so frequently referred to of late in connection with manufacturing enterprises.
The rapid consumption of our standing timber, by the lumber and wood pulp industries of the country, gives special interest to any information respecting the immense northern belt of timber stretching across Canada from the Atlantic to Alaska.
It is stated that the supply of anthracite coal in the hands of railroads and dealers will, at the present rate of consumption, probably be exhausted by the middle of September.
At the end of the fiscal year, June 30, the available cash balance in the United States treasury was larger than ever before in the history of the Government.
Orders have been issued by the Navy Department to fit all ships of the North Atlantic station, now undergoing repairs, with spars for receiving wireless telegraph messages.
Secretary Hay has received a cablegram from Minister Conger at Pekin to the effect that an agreement has practically been reached for the pro-rata reduction of the claims of the Powers against China, arising out of the Boxer outrages of 1900.
