St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-06
THINGS PEOPLE OUGHT TO KNOW.
Curious Matters and Inconsistencies of
Government Pointed Out.

Curious Matters and Inconsistencies of
Government Pointed Ou.
1t costs $50, 900 year to light the capitol
and grounds.
Pennsylvania has larger number of post
offices than any other state.
Postal-cards cost the government 81 cents
and mills per thousand.
The postofllce department uses $4,000
worth of wrapping Irvine year.
There are 419 type-setters, besides appren-
tees, in the government printing Office.
There are in the railway mail service ff.
teen clerks who draw the salary of $12 year
| each.
Last year the government paid for several
copies of Puck for the use of department Of
ficials.
The pension Office expends more than
$50, 900 year investigating alleged pension
frauds.
The government has sold more than $780,
100000 worth of public lands in eighty
years.
Last year the postofIice department used
81 900 worth of ink for stamping and can
CcIllS ltlIcIS'
To wait upon the 76 senators there are 24S
employees, not counting police, watchmen,
and librarians.
There are several postoffices in the coun-
try at which the annual salary Of the post
master is only 81.
Next to the president of the United States,
the best paid federal official is the clerk Of
the supreme court.
The government expended $41, 22S.66 last
year for "North American Ethnology" for
the Smithsonian institution.
Among the expenditures of the govern
ment last year was an item, "For manufac-
turing medals, $25.49S.23."
1t costs the government $3.50 year to
maintain lights and buoys on the Ohio, Mis-
sissippi, and Missouri rivers.
California, with less than half the popula-
ton of Indiana, pays to the government
more money for postal service.
To supply public buildings throughout the
country with fuel, light and water, requires
an expenditure of 1000 day.
Virginia now has the same number of con-
gress-men she had in 1890, when there were
only sixty-fye members of the house.
Two-ffths of all the newspapers and perio'
ideals sent through the mails by publishers
at pound rates are mailed at New York city.
More than one-half of the internal reven
ue of the government comes from the four
states of Illinois, New York, Ohio and Ken
lucky.
Seven hundred and fifty persons are con-
SANITY employed by the two houses of con-
gress while in SESSION. in and about the
capitol.
Estimating congress to be in session two
hundred days year, the salaries OF senators
and representatives amount to about S1O,-
900 day.
From the five states of New York Pennsyl-
yania, Illinois, Massachusetts, and Ohio the
government derives one-half of all its post
al revenues.
The state of Nevada, which has two sena-
tors and one representative in congress, has
not so large population by 617 souls as the
| city of New Haven, Conn.
Nineteen thousand seven hundred and
lightweight dollars of the public funds were
recently expended for machinery and e1-
periments in the manufacture of sugar"
In the fiscal year ended June 80, the gov
ernment's disbursements for pensions
reached sum which exceeds by 100000
the disbursements for all purposes In the
year 1860.
give hundred and eighty-ninc dollars for
wines, liquors, mineral waters for use OF
board of visitors to naval academy" is an
item in the last years expenditures OF the
| government.
After having expended more than hum
dred million of dollars upon its buildings in
the District, the government finds itself pay
ing nearly So, 600 month for rent OF pri
vate buildings.
Not clerk in the pension office draws
less than 81 900 year salary, the average
for the l, 173 clerks being 1924. Even the
copyists get 5000 year. These clerks have
light labor and short hours. The average
salary of the railway postoffice clerks through-
out the country is only s977 year. These
men work hard, at the most trying labor,
and haye long hours.