Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-06


Beled his message for the shallow town,
And in the spleen Of climaX'd wantOnness
1t babe HIM as an apostolic clown.
Back to the desert. Yet IN steadfastness
He toil'd and triumphed. ScOrning times
renOWn,
He spake his message-that is all success.
The Current.
CURIOsITIEs OF GOVERNMENT.
Some COMMONPLACE Facts Not General
ly Known.
Next to the President Of the United
states, says a Washington letter to the
New York San, the best9aid Federal
official is the Clerk Of the Supreme Court.
The States OF Colorado, Delaware,
Florida, Nevada, Oregon, Rhode Island,
and Vermont have less than one-half the
population of Illinois, bat have the same
number Of representatives in Congress
twenty-five.
Pennsylvania has 3 larger number Of
post offices than any other State.
Not a clerk in the Pension once in this
city draws less than $1,000 a year salary,
the average for the LIB clerks being
81 .294. Even the cOpyists get $500 a year.
These clerks have light labor and short
hours. The average salary Of the Railway
Post Office clerks throughout the country
is only $977 ayeaT. These men work hard,
at the most trying labor, and have long
hours.
Eighty years ago North Carolina had as
many representatives in Congress as New
ork. North Carolina now has nine, or
one less than she had in 1900 while New
York has thirty-fOur.
There are 40 typesetters. besides APP
prentices, IN the government printing
offices.
Estimating Congress to be in session
200 days year. the salaries Of Senators
and Representatives amount TO about &c.,
600 a day.
The State OF Nevada, which has two
Senators and one Representative in Con-
gress, has not SO large population by
6l7 souls as the city of New Haven Conn.
A number of the United States Senate's
employees are put down on the records as
skilled labOrers,' and draw pay at 81, 900
a year, while those who are merely sun
skilled labOrers" get $50 a year The
distinction between the two is in the kind
of brOOms they manipulate. The skilled
labOrer uses a common broom to sweep
stone tagging. while the "unskilIed0
lab0rer yields a coarse broom in sweeping
carriageWays.
During the past ten years the govern
ment mas expended nearly $4,000, 600 in
caring for the Indians. The total number
Of Indians attached to agencies is only
GAG, 900, and of these 10000 in Indian Ter
ritOry, 100 in Wisconsin, AMI 5000 in
New York are supposed to be at least
partially seli-suppOrting.
Last year the Post Office Department
used S1I 900 worth of ink for stamping
and canceling letters.
The five States Of Delaware. Colorado.
Florida, Nevada, and Oregon combined
have not so great a population by about
1000 souls as the city of New York.
Yet New FORK city has but eight Repre-
sentatiYes in Congress, while the five
states have sixteen, besides their ten
Senators.
In the fiscal year ended June 80, the
governments disbursements for pensions
reached a sum which exceeds bv six
millions of dollars the disbursement for
all purposes in the year 1860.
There are in the railway mail service
fifteen clerks who draw the salary of $I2
a year each.
From the five States Of New York, Penn
sylvania, Illinois, Massachusetts. and
Ohio, the government derives One-half of
all its postal revenues.
Last year the government paid for
several copies of Puck for use OF depart
ment officials.
The government expended $41 DDS &C.
last year for "N0rth American EthnOlOgy"
for the Smithsonian Institution.
1t costs $4,000 year to light the capt.
toll and grounds.
More than One-half Of the internal re-
venue receipts of the government comes
from the four states of Illinois, New York.
Ohio and kentucky
To wait upon the IS Senators there are
442 employees not counting police, watch
meu, and librarians.
Virginia now has the same number of
Congressman she had in 1890, when there
were only 80 members of the House.
There are several post offices in the
country at which the annual salary of the
Postmaster is only 81.
Postal cards cost the government "a
cents and mills thousand.
Five hundred and eighty-nine dollars
for wines, liquors, and mineral waters for
use of Board of Visitors to Naval Acade-
my, is an item in last years eXpendi-
lures of the government.
The Pension Office eXpends more than
100000 year investigating alleged PEN
sion frauds.
At the Signal Service training school,
Arlington Heights. the students of mete-
OrOlOgy. barOmeters, and thermometers
are compelled to leave their study tables
in the exact centre Of the room, their
hunks in certain position in certain
corner, their coats hung upon certain
nails. and their text books piled up in a
certain manner before retiring for the
night, these and a hundred more similar
regulations being prescribed "by order Of
the Chief Signal Officer" Their Sunday
dinner is coffee, bread, and dried apples
stewed.
After having expended more than a
hundred millions OfdOllarS upon its build
ings in this district, the government finds
itself paying nearly $4,000 a month for
rent of private buildings.
The Post Office Department uses $780, 600
worth of wrapping Irvine year.
The thirteen states of Arkansas, Cali
fOrnia, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware,
N~.r.,
shire. Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont.
and West Virginia, with an aggregate
population which does not exceed that of
New York alone, have twenty-siX United
states Senators to New York; two.
California, with less than half the pOpu-
latlOn of Indiana, pays to the government
more money for postal service.
Among the expenditures OF the govern
ment last year was an item. ''FOr manu-
featuring medals, S25, 49S 2S."
1t costs the government $1S7, 900 year
TO maintain lights and buOys on the Ohio,
Mississippi and Missouri rivers.
TwO-ffths of all the newspapers and
periodicals sent through the mails by
publishers at pound rates are mailed at
New York city.
Nineteen thousand seven hundred and
Lightweight dollars Of the public funds
was recently expended for machinery
and experiments in the manufacture of
sugar"
To supply public buildings throughout
the country with fuel light, and water
requires an expenditure of 81, 600 a day.
Seven hundred and fifty persons are
constantly employed by the two Houses OF
Congress while in session in and about
the capitol.
The government has sold more than two
hundred million dollars worth of public
lands in eighty years.
In the last twenty years the government
has paid for interest on the public debt
the enormous sum of s., 0S9 100000, a sum
which would defray all the expenses OF
the government, excepting interest on the
public debt. for nearly nine years to come,
at the present rate Of expenditure; and
for nearly thirty-fiye years if expenses
could be limited to what they were in 1860.
BUILDOZING FOR LOGAN.
Judge Gresham Says It. Must Stop if 1t
is Going on in the Chicago Post ONCE.
The attention of Postmaster Gresham