The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-03-27
SOME ODD STATISTICS.
Taken From a Big Book of Moth
ing but Figures.
GREAT WATER AREA OF FLORIDA.

nllnoi. Leads In whisky. New York In
Beer Something About Our Exports
and Import.-Cost Of Pensions and In
dams Other Interesting Facts-
wAsnISGToN. March s6.-lSpecial. i
Uncle Sam Is great Publisher He turns
out many books every day. But no more
interesting volume comes from his prolific
presses than the Statistical Abstract Of
the United States" which has just been
issued. AT first glance this book looks
dull and forbidding. IL Is composed en-
tirely OF fgures-page after page Of stalls
tics. But look underneath the surface OF
these tables Of figures and you will lind an
epitome Of tho financial and industrial
history OF the times. You will learn
world of things which you never knew be-
fore. And you Will have the satisfaction
of knowing that whatever Is set down here
Is official and accurate. Considered In this
way, there Is not a dull page In the book,
rs the following extracts from the com.
pilation. made here and there at random,
will testify:
Florida has a larger water area within
In the United States. 4, i40 square miles.
Minnesota is next with 4. 100 and North
Carolina third with 1870.
The United States government s interest
charge on public debt has fallen from So. 0s
per capita In 1870 TO AZ cents in 1896.
Income From Sugar.
The government gets larger income
from sugar than from any other article of
Importation, 1850, 900 IN 1895. The
next largest item of customs receipts was
tobacco, which yielded sl4,9l6, 900, and
the third cotton manufactures, so, 4S6, 600.
Wooden dress goods yielded s., 787, 900 and
wooden clothes IS, $4,000.
The largest source OF government re-
ceipts from internal revenue taxation Is of
course from spirits, which yielded last year
$4,000, 900, beer s3l, 900, 900 and tobacco
$50. 900, 900.
The governments pension payments
reached high water mark in 1898, when
they amounted to $3.50, 857, 900 against
only $50, 900 in 1889. The amount
fell TO Sal, 000 coo In 1895 and will be still
less In 1890.
Every man, woman and child in the
United States Ia taxed IL cents u year TO
pay tho expenses of congress and the slla.
ries Of senators and representatives.
Our individual contribution to the OK
pense of maintaining the president aud the
White House Is not very great. ltamounts
to only mills year for each inhabitant
Of the United States.
Tho biggest item OF government cx.
pense, figured per capita, Is tho interior
department, which includes pensions and
the Indians. II costs So. 30 per year ~
each inhabltaut Of the country, tho treas
ury department ~ 90 the war Department
~ cents, tho navy department - ccut
and the postofflce department 81 20
The total cost Of the government per
capita is co. 81 year.
Contrary 10 the general impression, Il
costs the government moro 10 collect i;s
customs than its internal revenue. The
per cent OF cost for the former was, in 1880
4.43, and Of the latter only 2.G3
Tho Great states.
Illinois pays more money into tho fed
eral treasury through internal revenue
taxes than any other state. Tho figure.
for 1895 are: Illinois, $50, COS 900; Ken
lucky, $40. 947, 900; New YuTs. $40, 'la. |
600; Ohio, sl2, AZ, coo; Pcunsyl,nBia
$40, 9Sl, 0O0. These five states contribute |
nearly two thirds OF all the revenue from |
this source.
Kentucky Is not the greatest whisky /
state. In the last six years Illinois has /
produced 1876, 600, 600 gallons OF whisky i
and kentucky 1872, 600 600
New York Is the greatest beer state, i
with Q, 75s.000 barrels In 1895, Pennsyl. |
yania boinR second with 3, 59l 900 barrels,
and Illinois third with 3,292, 900 barrels
Wisconsin beats Missouri In beer 2, sO7, 600 |
barrels against ., 1870, 000
The population OF the United States |
June last Is officially estimated at Co.
1853, 000 The population is increasing at /
the rate OF about l, 500, 600 yearly and is |
now, therefore, about II ,O00 600.
The national banks Of 90 leading cities /
OF the United States have loaned out To |
their customers more than thousand mil /
lion dollars. The amounts for several Of L
the cities, In millions, are rs follows: New /
York, 3SI; Boston, 1877; Philadelphia OF; |
Chicago, 93; Pittsburg, 43; Baltimore, 90; |
IT. Louis, 30; Cleveland, 81; Cincinnati, 90; |
Detroit, is; Milwaukee, Is; Kansas City,
IA; New Orleans. 10; st. Paul, IL; Mime
apolis, ii Brooklyn, IL; Omaha, o; Louis.
vile, 9; San Francisco, q; Washington, z;
Albany, q; st. Joseph, 4; Lincoln, 2; Des
Moines, 2; Savannah, /.
Our total expectation Of whent last year
amounted to 40, 200, 900 bushels and Is,
600, 900 barrels OF -four More than two.
thirds OF tho wheat and more than half |
the flour won't to England. All but 1000,
600 bushels of the wheat and 4 1000, 600 |
barrels OF -four was sold in Europe
Only ga per cent Of our corn crop OF
1895 was exported, while 81 a per ceut Of
the wheat crop went abroad
What We Eat and Drink.
The people of the United States are the
greatest sugar eaters In the world We /
used last year nearly 1900, 900 tons OF
sugar, or more than SO pounds per inhab
liant. OF the 1000 900 tons consumed
/, 672, 600 were imported.
The people of the United States con.
sumed last year an average Of 2.5 pounds
OF tea each, at an average import price Of |
1917 cents
This Is nothing compared to the coffee
consumed, which amounted to moro than
nine pounds per capita and at an average
Import price Of 147 In other words,
our tea bill Omport valued was $4,000
600 and our coffee bill eos 600, 900.
The mine value Of the coal produced In
the United states In 1894 was s166, 900, 600.
Bituminous coal leads anthracite in
quantity and valuo, as follows: Anthra-
cite, AZ, OOO, 900 tons, valued at f7S, 600 900;
bitumlnous, $4,000, 900, valued Mt $685.
000 000
The coal mined In this country In 1894
was worth more than the gold, silver, cop
per, lead and zinc combined
There are 244, 900 subscribers for Bell tel
ephones In the United States, or ono sub
scriber TO every goo inhabitants.
Only per cont of the foreign carrying
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