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an additional allowance Of $4,000 II
tee, $1,000 for soap, $500 for towel
and $500 for water-closet paper. Whethe
OF not the Post-0fflce Department fu
nfsiles fair average OF the personal car
which Government employees bestow upo
themselves cannot be accurately determined
as the other Departments are not eauatf
specific In setting forth their necessities.
The Department of Agriculture this yea
assumes an Importance by jumping up frun
S244ooo to S334, GOO Of expense. It cost
$4,000 to purchase, propagate, and lIstrlb
ute seeds, shrubs, vines, s'and sIch": $500
for experimental gardening; $4,000 for th
machinery, apparatus, and labor to contiuu,
the experiments in the manufacture Of suga]
from sorghum and corn-stalks; $4,000 to in
vestlgate the history and habits Of predator,
Insects; $4,000 for investigating the diseases
OF domesticated animals like the swine;
So.ooo Tor report TN forestry; 5000 for IN.
otEer report on the agricultural needs Of re-
g1ons that are confessedly arid; and S15O0C
ior contlngents which are presumably Of the
| same nature as are indicated in greater de-
| tall and with more frankness In the Post
Office Department.
Some Of the curiosties of the foreign serv-
Ice which amounts to an aggregate annual
expense OF 81, 257, 600, MAY be found in the
large sums spent upon Interpreters for the
dement, ct Ministers and Consuls who speak
nothing but american In the $4,000 for
the support of prisons abroad to take care Of
American convfcts; in the S., 600 for bringing
nome American criminals from foreign couu-
tries, where they might better be allowed to
remain. and other like expenses.
Among the stray items that are rather De-
cullar are the following: $4,000 for building
a cottage at the Military Academy for the en-
tertanment of the official visitors, whose ex-
pel'ses amount to some 5000 more; $3.50
1or replacing the Window-sash Of the cadet
barracks Of the same Institution with larger
panes for the boys to look out of and throw
stones at; 81, GOO for building a Surgeons
mouse at Mare Island. California. Cramped
and insufficient accommodations ARE evident
~ not among the expressions Of the military
and naval SERVICE
The estimates for the river and harbor I'm
provements would. furnish an excellent
geographical puzzle for school use. With
out going Into figures, the unruly boy might |
be set, as Il mere matter OF discipline, at the |
task OF finding the following places and |
streams on his map: uyannis, Mass; Great
anu Little Sodus Bays, New York; Seba-
walng Harbor, Michigan; Ahnapee. Wis;
Cook Bay, Oregon; Cathance River, Maine;
a1anasouin River, New Jersey; Broad
Creek, Delaware; Choptauk River, Mary
and; Non,oni Creek, Virginia; Scupper-
hong River, North Carolina; Waccanlaw
tt'er, South Carolina; OckmuIgee River,
Georgia; various Louisiana teches; Pass
,avalio Inlet, Texas; Ciinch River, Tennes-
ee; Petalumas Creek, California. These
you'd do to start on, and after they had |
een traced out, the boy, if still needing TO
e disciplined, might be given few scores
lore Of equally obscure creeks named which
CURE in the River and Harbor bill as re-
'1rlng all the way from S., 600 to S200.00o for {
Improvement
There are countless other items of Gov
Fnnlent expenditure which would occasion Y
lrprtse, but which nothing less than book
3oo large quarto pages, which is the extent I
the Secretary OF the Treasury's .'letter" q
estimates, would serve to enumerate. The | a
lbllc institutions and grounds in Washing a
IN under charge Of the Secretary Of the III v
rior require an annual expenditure of $685. k
Q, according to the estimates. The ssstar n
ute postal service, which does not ill., Fl
ude the regular railway and steamboat -
les. demands $500, 600. The public print | al
< costs over S2,000, 600. There are SIG, ,704,- "
OF miscellaneous expenditures after p;
erythfnp has aDnarenfv hoen nrovf.1ad for. m
d, finally, it costs 5000 merely to prepare it.
3 publication of the receipts, expenditures, Ii:
d appropriations, There is no doubt about OF
is being all expensive, as well as great, | II
vernment Of ours. oil