The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1884-05-13
fHE SPIRIT Of DEMOCRACY.
TUESDAY, MAY Is. 1884.
CURIOUS THINGS.
As Picked Up In the Department.
and From the Records IN
Washington.

As Picked Up In the Department.
and From the Records IN
Washington.
New York Sun.
The State OF Nevada, which has two
Senator, and one Representative in Con.
grass, has not so large population by
GIT souls as the city OF New Haven
Conn.
A number OF ths United States Sen
ate's employees are put down on the rec
ords as .sskilled laborers" and draw pay
at $1,000 a year, while those who are
merely "unskllled laborers" get 3840 q
year. The distinction between the two
IL in the kind of b. ooms they manipulate.
The ''skilled" laborer uses : common
broom to sweep stone tagging, while,
''upskilled" laborer wields coarse
broom in sweeping carri.ge.ways
Daring the past ten years the Govern.
ment has expended nearly $4,000, 900
in caring for the Indians. The total
number OF Indians attached tn agencies
IS only 246 00e and of these 10000 in
Indian Territory. 7,700 in Wisconsin.
and 5000 IN New York ale supposed to
be at least partially self supporting.
Last yea the Pnstofice Department
used sll 600 worth OF ink for stamping
and cancelling letters.
The Eve States of Delaware, Colo.
RADIO. Florida, Nevada and Oregon COM
hined have not so great population by
about 100000 souls as the city OF New
York. Yet New York City has hat eight
Representatives in Congress. while the
nve States have sixteen, besides their ten
Senators.
In the fiscal year ended June 80 the
Governments disbursement for pen
sions reached q sum which exceeds by
six million dollars the disburse ments for
oil purposes in the year 1860.
There are 10 the rail lsay mail service
fifteen clerks who draw the salary OF
Sl2 year each.
From the five States OF New York,
Pennsylvania, lllinoie, Massachusetts
and Ohio the Government derives one
half of oil it's postal revenues.
Last year the Government paid for
several copies OF Puck for use Of de-
partment officials.
The Government expended S4l .22S 66
last year for "North American Etbnol-
ogy" for the Smithsonian Institute.
1t costs $4,000 a year to light tie
Capitol and grounds.
More than one half the internal reve.
nue. receipts, Of the Government comes
from the four States of Illinois, New
York, Ohio, and Kentucky.
To wait upon the seventy.six Sens
tors there are 242 employees. not count
ing police, watchmen and librarians.
Virginia now has the sa me number oi
Congressman she had in 1890, Shen there
were only sixty Eve members in the
House.
There are several postofflces in the
country at which the annual salary OF
the postmaster 10 only 81.
Postal cards cost the Government fifty.
four cents and four mills per 900.
"Flve hundred and eighty dollars fol
wines. liquors, and mineral waters fol
use OF board of visitors to Navsl Acad.
emy" is an item in last years sxpendi
lures of the Government.
California, with less than half the pop.
ulation of Indiana, pays to the Govern,
ment more money for postal service.
Among the expenditures of the Gov
eminent last year was an item. For
manufacturing medals, $25 ,49S,23."
1t costs the Government SlS7, 900 9
year to maintain lights and buoys on the
Ohio, Mississippi and Missouri rivers
Two.f'ths Of all the news papers and
periodicals sent through the mails by
publishers at pound rates are mailed q,
New York City.
Nineteen thousand seven hundred and
eighty-eight dollars Of the public fund.
were recently expended for "machinery
and experiments in the manufacture o
sugar."
To supply public buildings throu gh'
out the country with fuel, light, and wa
ter, requires an expenditure of 81, 900 q
day.
Seven hundred and fifty persons arc
constantly employed by the two Houses
of Congress (whie in SESSION. in and
about the Capitol.
The Government has sold more than
5000, 900, 600 worth OF public lands in
eighty years.
In the last twenty years the Govern
ment has paid for interest on the public
debt the enormous sum OF $2,0S9, 600, ).
900, sum which would deiray 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.
/ five years il expenses could be limited
to what they were in 1860.
The Pension Office expends more thsn
$50. 900 year investigating alleged pen.
sion frauds.
Atthe Signal Service Training School
Arlington Heights, the students OF me
teorology, barometers, and thermometer.
are compelled to leave their study tables
in the exact center OF the room, thei
hunks in q certain corner, their coats
hung upon certain nails, aud their tex
books piled up 10 certain manner be
fore retiring for the night, these and
hundred more similar regulations be;ni
prescribed "by order Of the chief sigma
officer" Their Sunday dinner Is coffee
bread, and dried apples stewed.
/ After having expended more than
hundred millions of dollsrs upon II
buildings in this district, the Govern
ment finds itself paying nearly S6, 900
month for rent OF private buildings.
The Postoffice Department uses $50
600 worth of wrapping t~ine year.
The thirteen States Hf Arkansas, Cal
ifornia, Colorado, Connecticut, Delavar,