Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-01-30
EMPLOYED BY UNCLE SAM.
0ver 15O, 900 Persons Occupied In tho Gov
ernment Service.

One interesting piece of information
which the new congress will have laid
before it has just been completed. IL
is full list of the names of all persons
employed in the government service
And how many would one suppose
there are of them? More than $50, 900.
The growth of the army Of government
employees is something marvellous
decade ago the announcement was made
that the number of government en-
ployes was over 100000. That was
thought to be something treme ndous,
and so it was. But the growth of the
governments business the growth of
the country, the extension of the postal
system, the general increase of BUSH
ness along with the increase of popula-
tion, compelled the Increase OF the gov
ernments forces to carry on its busi-
ness. Whether the administration be
democratic or republican, the increase
goes on Just the same. 1t seem like a
large number, 100000, but when one
stops to think that there are over
10000 post offices alone, and that every
one of these has at least one, and in
some cases, hundreds of employees, one
begins to wonder that the total is not
greater. Indeed, it is probable that the
number given above, $50, 900, is con-
siderably below the actual total.
The individual who draws the largest
salary in this big list is, Of course, tho
president-S5O,OO 900 year, s1S5 a day, or
something over IS an hour, sleeping or
waking. The next highest salary paid
is to the foreign ministers, some of
x-pho oft tIe
people who get fees, as we'll as salaries,
in the consular services are supposed to
make more than the salary paid to the
ministers. From these munifcent sal
aries which the more highly favored OF
the people get the figures dwindle rap
idly until they get down to the fourth
class postmasters, who are paid in pro-
portion to the business done at their
offices, some of them getting the aston
ishing compensation of 81. so year.
The study of this big list of names
gives some curious and interesting facts.
| Among the number are Q. 900 people OF
the name of Smith, and some 400 Of
them by the name of John Smith.
There are over 1.100 Browns, 1000
Johnsons, and 900 Joneses. There are
hundreds of them who spell their names
with but three letters each, among the
short names being such as Box, Boo,
Dew, Dox, Gee Olp, and hundreds OF
others that might be mentioned. Some
of the names that go to the other ex
treme as to length are the following:
Xylander, Bussenshut, Calvacoresses.
Postlethwaite, Waffenschmidt, Von-
bruddenbrocl Matagonsky, Stouten-
borough, Schencken berger. Scharring.
hansen, Petegomenne, Kochersperger.
Brannersrenther, and Dzierzanowaki.
They must be quite an affectionate lot.
these government employees, for among
the names are two Huggs, one Hugger.
one Huggins, and twenty five or thirty
Loves.
The various nationalities appear to
be pretty well represented by names as
well as by individuals, for there are
fifteen people who bear the name oi
English, seventy-fi five with the name
French six of the name Irish, three
German and one America. Uncle
, Sans large family evidently has its
proper proportion of people able tt
make their way through this worlt
G by whatever way seems most conven
O lent, for two of them sail under thu
: cognomen Gall, while three of then
= carry the equally suggestive name o
q Cheek They are a patriotic lot, evi
I IDENTIFY, for there are one Red. half I
e dozen Blues, and Whites by the hun
dreds
) There are several Flags, and materi
i, al for more, as shown by the fact tina
{ there are two Calicoes and one Silk.
u Uncle Sam wants to get into the fre
> lunch business he will have no difficult
in finding material to set his table
There are six Rusks, one Bread, fit
!, Fishes, ten Custards, eleven Coffees
two Teas, three Buffers, one Milk, tw
n Sourwines, one Sourbeer, two Apple
It and one A. Sass, which presumabl
r stands for ''apple-sass. There ar
., o. some names that would seem to b
. rather burden to carry through life
Is For instance there are three by tn
s name of Coward. one Lie, one Awl
n ward, one Damschroeder. one Go
rs dammer and one Damall. The month
u of the year are pretty we'll represents
-one January, one February, one A,
OF March. and Mays in still create
number. Scriptural names are hume
d. GUS. Adam and Adams can be counte
by the hundred. and to go with thel
ve all there is about one Eve, there al
o. o. forty Gains, thirteen Ables, one Jol
~ seven Abrahams, four Isaacs, thre
te Jacobs, two Matthews four Marks, on
he Luke, twelve Johns, and twenty-hy
IL Pauls.
,w With the curious facility which natu,
he seems to have for evening things up an
OF applying q remedy wherever there is
cf disease the list contains one Doctor
two Axes and twelve Pains. The d
scendants of the families of the vario,
-, presidents seem to be pretty well re
.m .us resented There are forty six Washin
ar ar tons of which five nre George Washin
I'd ton, 800 Adamses. sixteen Jefferson
z: 3a6 Jaclksons, twenty Monroes, tt
he Madisons 200 Harrisons, ten VI
On Burens. fifty Tylers, twelve Polks, Sc
is, enty- Ave Pierces, thirty Buchanan
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