Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-04-30
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According to the latest offlciai AS1-,
there are 19,446 public functionaries OF
various kinds and degrees employed eX~
clusively in the District of Columbia con
ducting the numerous departments ana
bureaus of the federal government
These are the civilian appointees 10 the
executive departments and do not m
elude Senators and Representatives and
several hundred employees of the houses
who vibrate between the capital anu
their homes in ether parts Of the country
Nor does this aggregate include 800 Or
400 army and navy officers, active and re-
tired, who form large permanent coli
ony. The monthly compensation of these
1916 civilian. employees amounts to ST.
$50, fossil Therefore the aggregate
sum in salaries annually paid out in
Washington by the government disburs-
ing clerks reaches the enormous total OF
S19,62S. 505.72 Besides, probably not Less
than S3,000,000s additional goes to the
Senators and Congressman and their sub
ordinateS and perhaps $1,250,OO0 more to-
the army and navy officials, most OF
whom are of high rank with large pay
there being constantly in>Washington not
less than sixty generals and admirals,-
active and retired. These totals form .
grand aggregate of $23,S7S,050I2 annu-
ally paid out in Washington in the single
item of salaries.
Last year our national liquor bin
amounted to $1.059, 565, 7S7, an average
per capita of $1394, or 17.6S gallons. In
1900 the people of Great Britain paid
$SO4. ass. $50 for alcoholic drinks, an av-
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amount England paid $667 ,60T ,215, an
average of S20.79 per head of population
Scotland, $T1, 520,505, an average Of
$1G.5S, and Ireland, $65322, 07O, an av-
erage of $14.50 per head. The aggregate
shows decrease in Great Britain from
the previous year of $685. 1885, The
people of the United States, however, are
consuming larger quantities of alcoholic,
liquors than formerly. Last year the av-
erage of all alcoholic drinks per capita
lies gallons-has only been exceeded
once since 1891, when, in 1893, the aver
age reached 1920 gallons. More gallons
of coffee are consumed than any other
drink or stimulant, amounting in 1900 t0
1851 9S5, 296 gallons, compared With
1921, 800, 100 gallons of beer. In 1900
we also consumed $37 ,312, SOS worth OF
tea and $6,000,0 900 of cocoa bringing the
total for alcoholic and non-alcoholic
drinks to 81, 22S,674, 1925, an increase over
1899 of $S1, III, JOB.
The statistics of foreign trade show
that there has been a constant increase
in the exports and constant decrease iD
the imports. The figures for the nine
months of the current fiscal year ending,
March 81 show total of 81, 140, no, Us
merchandise exported, an increase of
SGT, 540,032 over the corresponding period
in the previous year. which was the high
est record in our history. AT the same
time the imports show a decrease OF
$42, 292, $50 compared with the nine
months of the previous year, which
makes the balance of trade in our favor
500. ,331 for nine months, an increase
of $12S, 49,, gu. The largest increase
has been in the export of agricultural
products. The export of manufactures
is slightly less because of the Interrupt
ton of trade with China and the facS
that shipments to the Hawaiian Islands
and Porto Rico are no longer included
in the statistics of foreign commerce.
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The government reserves as a monop~
oily the right to carry the mails. For
the convenience of the public letters may
be transmitted by express upon the pay
ment of the regular express charges
provided they are inclosed i'll govern
ment stamped envelopes. 1t is viola
ton of the law for an express company
or individual to transport mails upon
which the postage has not been paid III
that way. An adhesive postage stamp
will not do. Express companies are not
authorized TO cancel imprinted stamped
envelopes which they are permitted to-
deliver, but it is expected that the re
ceiver will in opening the envelope rem
der it unfit for further use. Imported
postage stamps cannot be cut from one
envelope and used upon another. Should
a government stamped envelope be de
faced any postmaster may redeem 1t Il
it bears no mark of having been prevD-
ously used.
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