The Republican journal., 1884-09-11
Facts Boiled Down.

EkNMENl. FACTS AND FIGUR ES ON EN ER1
CONCEIVABLE TOPIC-PUBLIC MEN AND
| IUBLIC MONEY.
One voter in seven can not write.
There are 1902 clerks in the Pension Office.
There are so .196 POst-otiices in the United
States.
Mall locks and keys cost Uncle Sam $25 900
year.
The payroll of the Government amounts to
$40 500 $500.
To improve our rivers and harbors this year
costs So ,0SG,200
In the thirty-eight States there are 1871, PIT
illiterate voters.
| One-seventh of the population of Kentucky
| is colored
1t costs Uncle Sam this year 50 ,456 3S931 to
take care of "Lo," the poor Indian.
II costs about $4,000 annually to pay for
| the transportation of our foreign mails.
In 1880 there were eighteen clerks in the
General Land Office. Now there are 367.
The postal service of the United States costs
the Government this year $46,225 800.
There are eight Senators and thirteen mem
bers of the House kentuckans by birth.
Conger, of Michigan, is the only Senator
who wears spike-ta coat for everyday use.
The exports of animals in their products was
in 1860 but SIC, 402 SD. In 1901 it was $l15,5S4
! 80.
We have now less than 100000 school teach
ers, and an average of more than siXty-,X pu-
| pills for each
1t is estimated that the wool clip of this year
will amount to 3O0,000.000 pounds, and be
worth SS5, 0,0O0.
BY the census of 1880 there were in the Unit
ed States 36,161 ,60T persons ten years of age
and upward.
Tom Ochitree is the only native born Texan
that has ever been sent to Congress from that
State.
Over nneeen-twentieths of the coored pop
ulation of the United States is in the Southern
States.
SiXty-tive thousand dollars worth of station
airy Is used by the Postoflce Department every
year.
Seventy thousand dollars worth of wrapping
Irvine is used by the Post-ofiice Department an
nually.
The United States has 1890 miles of tele-
! graph lines completed, while the whole world
has only $50 900 miles.
There are Zip Post-otfces in the State of
Ohio, in which 1856 of the Postmasters are APP
pointed by the President.
Pennsylvania has more Post-oflices (3,Sl6)
than any other State in the Union: New York
comes next, having, 3,l3l.
There will be expended this year $4,000 for
the manufacture of adhesive postage and of
newspaper and periodical stamps.
James q. Fair Is the wealthest United
States Senator. lie is an Irshman. and is said
to be worth more than $40,000,000.
Government Printer Rounds and United
States Treasurer Wyman used to be tepeseters
on the Old Cincinnati Gazette.
The actual yearly expenditures of all money
/
this time Just about 5000 900
The President appoints 1928 PostmaSters
The others are at small offices and are appoint
ed by the Post-oiice Department.
The salaries of the Commissioner, Clerks
and employees in the office of the Commissioner
of Agriculture amount to $50, $50 per wear.
Three thousand dollars will be expended
this year by the Agricultural Department for
the cultivation and distribution of the tea
plant.
In 1880 there We're g. 239 a5S persons over ten
years Of age who could not write or seventeen
persons In 100. Now there are 100000 who
can not write.
OF the 36G in the Electoral College in 1876
2J4. or more than two thirds could have been
controlled BY voters who were unable 10 read
the ballots they cast
In proportion to population Notwithstanding
the great cities within her borders New York
has only one voter who can not write to five in
South Carolina
In 1850 there were II 343 O05 white males
over twenty-one Of whom $50 G.9 or rs per
cent, could not write Now there are .OOO,-
900 white adults who can not write.
The supply of DC >ta-cardS this wear will cost
the Government So32 900. and it will REQUIRE
s. 300 to pay for the il distribution and the eX-
pcnse of the agency.
Senator Morrill,. of Vermont. is the oldest of
the Senators. being seventy four, while Senator
henna of West Virginia. is the Youngest be-
inc but tbirtv-siy.
OF the II. lJ3, 1S:} people of the United States
there are G,239, 95S over ten years of aye, y #
per cent. or nearly one-cighth Of our entire
population. who can not write
Nearly three-fourths of the ilterate voters
of the country are in the sixteen Southern
States The same States contain about one
third the entire population.
There are nine establishments in the United
States producing $3.50 watches a day one es-
adjustment alone turning out a watch minute
for ten hours each day.
In the States of Alabama. Florida. Georgia.
Louisiana. Mississippi, North Carolina. South
Carolina and Virginia there is over 40 per
cent of iterates of all classes. white and
black.
American watches are now made equal TO
the best in the world, while for the cheaper
common watches we outstrip everybody. They
can he bought ut from $50 each to 800 or
more.
Estimating one voter to every five persons
our voting population in 1880 was 10000. 900.
BY the same rule the colorcd voters in the
South numbered 1,2l9, $50, or more than one
ninth of all.
There are / ,212 Dos white persons over ten
wears of age in the twenty-two Northern
States that are rated as illiterates, ana 1876 64l
blacks i'm the TWENTY-FIVE Northern States ana