, 1899-11-23
FROM WASHINGTON.
GOSSIP OF THE WHITE HOUSE
AND THE DEPARTMENTS.

Inc number OF postage stamps SOlu
by Uncle Sam last year was 4,9l7, 2d9,-
OBS, valued ut $50, 151 .659.T1, n net in
crease of csc per cent. in number and
3.25 per cent. in value. More than
Sl2.5OO,O0U worth of stamped envelopes
were sold during the year.
Admiral and Mrs. Dewey returned to
Washington from New York Tuesday
night. a Navy Department official met
them and escorted them to the ad-
miraTs carriage. in which they were
driven to the home on Rhode Island
avenue presented to the admiral by the
American people.
The annual report of General Buff
fington, chief of ordnance. shows that
the expenditures for the year ending
June 30, 1899, for the ordnance bu-
reau amounted TO SOB, T96, 1856. For the
scacoast defenses the number of guns
completed We're SO Sinch rifles, 100 10
inch rifles and IS 12-inch rifles.
The board of health of the District of
Columbia has received n curious nppli-
cation from Mrs. Thomas i. Ryan of
New York, who says that she is about
TO erect n residence in V street in this
city and desires permission to construct
In the cellar IL vault for the burial OF
the bodies of herself as well ms her hus-
band and two children, who died some
time z in Baltimore. The npplica-
tion was denied
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lnIIS 10 tle ohl'eu Stht's ~ ~ 90
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perIinpS u thluIpiv h,G.,,on IT, ,Mu DE- ~n
= ~ 'ii,',i ',n.S, ~ on
lotIon which nccorLinr tn the trensury
bureau of statistics nre hut hfty-four
s0uore miles and i Nm nunuIotion. II
nossnsses tho most v,IuohIn island hnr-
nor i'm tho South Pacific
Director Merriam OF the census III
MS annual report, estimates that there
VIII be required Tor the census OF l"o"
more than 10000 enumerntors over
-''bUo clerks ana over -'"po spe'ihl
agents. ON November loth the ehIlrc
once mbe lS2, mostly women
employed as skilled lhhorrrs III tllc pre-
thn n~nrinon nan onico Of n,,rrbnsn ngnni
i've created nuL mat TWO additional
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