The Arizona champion., 1884-05-10
GOVERNMENT CURIOsITIEs.
A Few Points of Interest Gathered by q
 Washington Correspondent.

and Vermont have less than one-half the population of Illinois, but have tho same number of representatives in Con gress-twenty-two.
 Pennsylvania has larger number O postofiices than any other State.
 Not clerk in the pension office draws less than Sl ,000 year salary, the aver age for the l,173 clerks being l,294 Even the copyists get $900 year These clerks have light labor and shor hours. The average salary of the rail way postoffice clerks throughout the country is only S977 year. These mer work hard, at the most trying labor, and have long hours.
 Eighty years ago North Carolina had as many representatives in 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 4l9 type-setters, besides ap- prentices, in the government printing office.
 Estimating Congress to be in session two hundred days year, the salaries of Senators and Representatives amount to about $l0 1000 day.
 The State of Nevada, which has two senators and one representative in Con- gress, has not so large a population by 6l7 souls as New Haven, Conn.
 \ lao, nf ho IfnitAI ate's employees are put down on the records as 'skilled laborers," and draw pay at Sl ,000 year, while those who are merely "unskilled ;laborers' get sS40 a year. The distinction between the two is in the kind of brooms they manipulate The "skilled" laborer uses the common to sweep stone Tagging while the "unskilled" labor yields a coarse broom in sweeping carriage-ways.
 During the past ten years the govern ment has expended nearly $70 ,000, 1000 in caring for the Indians. Tie total number of Indians attached to agenies is only 246,000, and of these 60,000 in Indian Territory, 7,700 in Wisconsin, and 5000 in New York are supposed to be at least partially seli-supporting.
 Last year the postotlice department used Sll ,000 worth of ink for stamping and canceling letters.
 The five States of Delaware, Colorado, Florida, Nevada and Oregon combined have not so great population by about 100, ,000 souls as the city of New York Yet New York city has but eight repre- sentatives in Congress, while the five States have sixteen, besides their ten senators.
 In the fiscal year ended June 30th, the governments disbursements for pensions reached sum which exceeds by $36, ,000, ,000 the disbursements for all purposes in the year 1860.
 There are in the railway mail service fifteen clerks who draw the salary of SIP a 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.
 Last year the government paid for several copies of Puck for the use of department officials.
 The government expended $4l ,22S .60 last year for "North American Eth nology" for the Smithsonian Institution.
 It cost $30 1000 year to light the cap itol and grounds.
 More than 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 76 seuators there are PAP employees, not counting police, watchmen, librarians.
 Virginia now has the same number of congressman she had in l790, when there were only sixty-fve members of the house.
 There are several postofiices in the country at which the annual salary oi the postmaster is only $l.
 Postal-cards cost the government 54 cents and mills per thousand.
 "Five hundred and eighty-nine dollars for wines, liquors, and mineral waters for use of board of visitors to naval academy, is an item in last years ex- penditures of the government.
 The pension office expends more than $60, ,000 a year investigating alleged pension frauds.
 At the signal-service training school, Arlington Heights, the students of meteorology, barometers, and ane- mometers are compelled to leave the study tables in the exact center of the room, their hunks in a certain position in a certain corner, their text books piled up in a certain manner before retiring for the night, these and hun dred more similar regulations being pre- scribed "by order of the chief signal officer" Their Sunday dinner is coffee, bread and dried apples stewed.
 After having expended more than millions of dollars upon it's buildings in the district, the government finds itself paying nearly $6 ,000 a month for rent of private buildings.
 The postoflice department uses ESQ., 900 worth of wrapping twine year.
 The thirteen States of Arkansas, Cali fornia, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hamp- 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 Yoik's two.
 California, with less than half the population of Indiana, pays to the gov srnment more money for postal service.
 Among the expenditures of the gov 'enment last year, was an item, "For