Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-05-03
CURIOSITIEs OF GOVERNMENT.

Queer Facts that Come to the Surface in
 in Washington.
 The States of Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Nevada, Oregon, Rhode Island and Vermont have less than one-half the population of Illinois, but Lave the same number of Representatives in Con- gress-twenty-two
 Pennsylvania has larger namber of postofiices than any other State.
 Eighty years ago North Carolina had as many Representatives III Congress as New York. North Carolina now has nine, or one less than she had in 1900, while New York has thirty-four.
 There are 419 typesetters, besides ap- prentices, in the government printing office.
 Estimating Congress to be in session 200 days year, the salaries of Senators and Representatives amount to about S10,000 day.
 The State of Nevada, which has two Senators and one Representative in Con gress, has net so large population by 6l7 souls as the city of New Haven, Con necticut.
 Last year the Postofiice Department used S1l,000 worth of ink for stamping and canceling letters.
 In the fiscal year ended June 30th, the governments disbursements for pensions reached a sum which exceeds by S6,000,000 the disbursements for all purposes ill the year 1860.
 There are in the railway mail service fifteen clerks who draw the salary of SIP year each.
 From the five states of New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Massachusetts and Ohio, the government derives one half of all it's postal revenues.
 It costs S30,0OO a year to light the capitol and grounds.
 More than one-half of the internal revenue receipts of the government comes from the four states of Illinois, New York, Ohio and Kentucky.
 To wait upon the seventy six Senators there are 242 employees, not counting police, watchmen and libra rian.
 Virginia now has the same number of Congressman she had in l790, when there were only sixty five members in the House.
 There are several postofices in the country at which the annual salary of the postmaster IS only S1.
 Postal cards cost the government 54 cents and mills per 1000.
 The Pension Office expends more than S60,0O0 year Investigating alleged pen sion frauds.
 After having expended more than Sl00,000O00 upon its buildings in the District the government finds itself pay ing nearly S6,000 month for rent of private buildings.
 The Postoffice Department uses SSO,- OUO worth of wrapping twlne a year.
 California, with less than half the population of Indiana, pays to the gov- ernment more money for postal service,
 Among the expenditures of the gov ernment last year was an item, "For manufacturing medals, S25, ,49S B"
 1t costs the government S1S7,O0O a year to maintain lights and buoys on the Ohio, Mississippi and Missouri rivers.
 Two-ffths of all the newspapers and perlOdlcals sent through the mails by publishers at pound rates are mailed al New York City.
 Nineteen thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight dollars of public funds was recently expended for machinery and experiments in the manufacture of sugar"
 To supply the public buildings khrar,rrk,,rk ko ,-l ,-Lk and water requires an expenditure of Sl,OO0 day.
 The government has sold more than S20O,0OO,OOO worth of public lands in eighty years.