Arizona republican., 1905-04-24
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Tea. Coffee. and the War; iOuS Alcoholic Compounds
A Compilation of Figures Showing the Standing of Countries as to Their Consumption.

Washington, April 23.-The con sumption of tea, coffee and alcoholic beverages in the principal countries Of the world is presented in a table just prepared by the department of com merce and labor through it's bureau of statistics. The figures show that the United Kingdom is Erst in the con- sumption Of tea; the United States, first In the consumption of coffee; Ger many, first in the consumption of beer; Russia; first in the consumption of whiskey and other distilled spirits, and France, first in the consumption of wines. Statistics are presented rela- tive to the United States. the United Kingdom, France. Germany. Russia, Spain. Italy, Austria Hungary, Portu- gal. Chile and Argentina.
 Tea consumption in the F countries ramed aggregated in 1904, or the latest available year, over 51O million pounds. Of this, the consumption in the United Kingdom was 256h millions Russia 127 1-3 millions; United States, 1O9 2-3 millions; Germany, ' millions: while in no other country for which these sta tistics are available is the annual con- sumption as much as 3 million pounds that of Austria Hungary being ? 2-3 million pounds; France, less than 21k million pounds; Argentina, 1 4-5 mill lions; Spain, 333 thousand pounds, and Italy 115.5O0 pounds.
 Of coffee, the worlds consumption is approximately 2h billion pounds. In this the United States, as already indl- cated holds the first place, with a to- tai consumption in 1904 of 961 million pounds; Germany second, 397 millions; France third 16S millions; Austria Hungary fifth, 10S 2-3 millions; Italy sixth, 39 millions, and the United King dom seventh 291a million pounds. Tn the other countries coffee consumption is less general, being 22 millions in Spain. 21 millions in Russia, 1S1k mill lions in Argentina. 61a millions in Por- tugal, and , F millions in Chile.
 The statistics of beer consumption are available for only countries. with a total of 5.753 million gallons annual ly. Germany had total consumption Of 1.783 millions; the United Kingdom. 1,501 millions; the United States, 1,494 millions; Austria. 492 millions; France, 2S9 millions; Hungary, 3S 1-3 millions and Italy. 6% millions.
 The consumption of whiskey, brandy, and other distilled spirits in the eight countries for which statistics are avail able amounted to 6S7 million gallons that for Russia being set down at 174 million gallons; Germany, 124 1-3 mill lions; France, = 1-3 millions; the United Kingdom, 58 1-3 millions; Hun gary. 431z millions; and Italy Il mill lions.
 Wine consumption in the countries for which statistics are presented amounts to 3,O9O million gallons an nually, principally in the Latin coun- tries. France alone consumes 1,343 million gallons annually; Italy, 92S1k millions; Spain, 33115 millions, and Austria Hungary, 231 millions. Figures for Russia are not available. Germany consumes 124 million gallons Of wine annually; Portugal, nearly 72 millions: the United States, 43 1-3 millions. and the United Kingdom, 16 2-3 millions.
 The per capita consumption of the various beverages in the principal countries presents some sharp con rrasts. Thus. in the per capita con- sumption of tea the United States is credited with but 1.34 pounds as against 6 pounds for the United King dom; while in the other countries pre- sented the annual consumption per head of population is in each case less than 1 pound; Russia being credited with O.92; Chile, 0.62; Argentina. 0.37; Portugal, 0.14; Germany, O.12, and France and Austria Hungary each, O.O6 Of l pound
 In the per capita consumption of cof- fee the relative rank of the countries named is: United States, 11.75 pounds per head of population; Germany, 6.65 pounds; France 429 pounds; Argen- tina, 3.S1 pounds; Austria Hungary, 2.33 pounds; Chile, 1.72 pounds; Spain, 1-1S pounds; Italy. 1.17 pounds; the United Kingdom, O.69 pounds; Italy. 1.17 pounds; the United Kingdom, O.69 pounds, and Russia, 015 pound. Of beer the per capita consumption in the latest available year was as follows: United Kingdom, 35.42 gallons (thus exceeding Germany with her 3077 gal lons); Austria -Hungaria, 20.36 gallons; United States, 1928 gallons; France, TAI gallons. and Russia. los gallons. The per capita consumption of whisky and spirituous liquors is far more uni form in the countries under considera- tionAustria with 3.O9 gallons per capi- ia, Hungary, 2.19 gallons, and Ger many, 2.11 gallons, being the only coun- tries with an annual consumption in excess of 2 gallons per capita: and Italy, with 0.34 gallon per capita, was the only country to fall below 1 gallon fin it's annual consumption per capita. The United States GAS gallons). Unit ed Kingdom G.3S galIons), France Q.S5 galIons), and Russia G.26 gallOns) differ little in their per capita con sumption of distilled spirits. In wine however the per capita con- sumption varies greatly among the var ious countries, from a minimum of O.39 of 1 gallon in the United Kingdom to 3473 ~allons in France while the other countries, arranged in the as- cending scale, stand, United States, o.53 of 1 gallon; Germany, EOS gallons; 3.75 gallons; Austria, 5.S5 gallons; Portugal, 14.12 gallons; pain, 17S2 gallons, and Italy. 2S.06 gallons.