The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-06-03

SlU,OUO day.
The State of Nevada, which has two
Senators and one Representative in
Congress, has not so large population
by Gil souls as the city of New Haven,
Conn.
A number of the United States Sem
ate's employees are put down on the
records as skilled laborers," and draw
pay at $1,000 year, while those who
are merely ''unskilled laborers" get
$40 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 ''unskilled" laborer
yields n coarse broom in sweeping car
riageways.
During the past ten years the Govern
ment has expended nearly $70,000,000
in caring for the Indians. The total
number of Indians attached to agencies
is only 246, 200, and of these $4,000 in
Indian Territory, 1900 in Wisconsin,
and 5000 in New York are supposed to
be at least partially sclf-supporting.
Last year the Post-office Department
used $l4, 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
100000 souls as the City of New York.
Yet New York City has but eight Rep
resentatires in Congress, while the five
States have sixteen, besides their ten
Senators.
In the fiscal year ended June so, the
Governments disbursement for pensions
reached the sum which exceeds by six
millions of dollars the disbursements for
all purposes in the year 1860.
There are in the railway mail service
fifteen clerks who draw the salary OF $12
year each.
From the five States of New York,
Pennsylvania, Illinois, Massachusetts
and Ohio, the Government derives one
half of all its postal revenues.
The Government expended $4l, 22S.66
last year for North American. Ethnol-
ogy" for the Smithsonian Institute.
1t costs $4,000 a year to light the
Capitol and grounds.
More than one-half of the internal rev.
enue receipts of the Government come
from the four States of Illinois, New
York. Ohio and Kentucky.
To wait upon seVenty-three Senators
there are PAP employees not counting
police, watchmen and librarians.
Virginia now has the same number
! Of congressman that she had in 1890.
when there were only siXty-tive 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 81
cents and 4 mills thousand.
Five hundred and eighty-nine dollars
| for wines, liquors, and mineral waters
for use OF Board of Visitors to Nava
| Academy is an item in last year:
expenditures of the Government.
The Pension Office eXpends more thai
100000 . year investigating alleged
pension frauds.
| At the Signal Service Training School
Arlington Heights, the students of me
teoro4ogy, barometers and anemometer
are compelled to leave their study
tables in the exact center of the room
their hunks in q certain position in
certain corner, their coats hung upol
certain nails, and their text books pile
up in certain manner before retlrln!
for the night, these and a hundred NOR
similar regulations being prescribed ''b
order of the Chief Signal Officer
Their Sunday dinner is coffee, bread
and dried apples stewed.
After having expended more thai
500, 000,0 upon its buildings in thi
District, the Government finds itself pay
ing nearly $4,000 a month for rent @
private buildings.
The Post-Office Department uses $50,
600 worth of wrapping Irvine year.
The thirteen States of Arkansas. Cal
EfOrnia, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware
Florida, Nebraska, Nevada, New HamI
! shire, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vernon
and West Virginia, with an aggregat
population which does not exceed tbs
of New York alone, have twenty-si
n United States Senators to New York
. two.
California, with less than half tn
population of Indiana, pays to the Gov
eminent more money for postal service
Among the expenditures Of the Coy
eminent last year was an,item ''Fo
manufacturing medals, $25, 49S, "a"
It costs the Government S1S7, 600
: year to maintain lights aud buoys on til
n Ohio, Mississippi and Missouri River
: Two-fifths of all the newspapers an
| l.. thI-OVo~h tho lie "
e publishers at pound rates are mailed s
New York City.
Nineteen thousand seven hundred an
sixty-eight dollars of the public fun
were recently expended for ''machiner
and experiments in the manufacture {
sugar"
To supply public buildings through
n out the country with fuel, light an
water requires an expenditure of 81 ,0C
day. ..tj .4
Seven hundred and fifty persons al
constantly employed by the two house
of Congress (while in SESSION. in an
about the Capitol.
The Government has sold more tina
two hundred million dollars worth
public lands in eighty years.
In the last twenty years the Cover
o nent has paid for interest on the publ
Il debt the enormous sum of s., 600, 00f
j. 600, a sum which would defray all tt
expenses of the Government, exceptii
interest on the public debt, for near
/ nine years tocome, at the present "a
of expenditure and for nearly thirt
: five years if the expenses could be Air
3, tied to what they were in 1860,-Wds
isqton Cor N. Y San.
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"A number of earls, lords and ma
quises have been discovered among q
C cowboys on the plains. This accom-
Of for their wild ways. N Y. Commerci
ee AdUertiser.
r, The first published proposition
IL the adoption of uniform time standar
g, came from Prof. Charles F. Dowd,