Production of Distilled Spirits IN THE UNITED STATES (STATED IN GALLONS) FROM 1878 TO 1891 INCLUSIVE. 29.575,667 1883. 8,662,245 1884. 8,896,832 1885. 12,277.750 1886. 19.318,819 1887. 17,015,034 1888. 7,463,609 1889.. 21,960,784 6,405,520 2,834,119 10,277,725 1,603,376 19,412,985 Emportation of Spirits, Malt Liquors and Wines INTO THE UNITED STATES FROM 1884 TO 1890 INCLUSIVE. .galls. 2,774,771 3,419,532 3.787.420 3,383,593 3.333,322 3,078,554 3,485,792 Champagne and other sparkling.doz. The percentage as above indicated is by volume. "Proof spirit' contains 49.24 per cent by The ratio of dipsomaniacs to all insane is as follows in several countries: Italy, 12 per cent; Expectancy of life, drunk and sober: At age 20, drunk, 15 years: sober, 44 years. At age 30, Foreign Trade of the United States. (Prepared for THE WORLD ALMANAO by the Bureau of Statistics of the Treasury Department.) EXPORTS. DOMESTIC MERCHANDISE AND SPECIE EXPORTED FROM THE UNITED STATES DURING THE FISCAL YEAR MERCHANDISE AND SPECIE IMPORTED INTO THE UNITED STATES DURING THE FISCAL YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 1891. FOREIGN TRADE OF THE UNITED STATES-Continued. The imports and exports of specie are not included in the above table. The total value of exports from the United States one hundred years ago, 1789-90, was $20,194,794; the total value of imports was $23,000,000; grand aggregate, $43,194,794. VALUE OF UNITED STATES EXPORTS* OF MERCHANDISE TO AND IMPORTS OF MERCHAN DISE FROM PRINCIPAL FOREIGN COUNTRIES, YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1891. Decline in the American Carrying Trade. THE following table shows the values of the imports and exports of the United States carried respectively in American and foreign vessels during each fiscal year from 1856 to 1891. 6,778.992 Switzerland... 49.317 194,723.262 Uruguay. 1,032,937 4,716,047 229 1,618,25 500 4,833.34 11,442 6,033,48 3,608 3,723,20 14,118,80 43.638 2,356,73 68,909 12,078,54 36,925 1,610,36 In American In Foreign Per cent in In American The United States Revenue Cutter Service. THE UNITED STATES REVENUE CUTTER SERVICE is an arm of the Treasury Department, and is under the direction and control of the Secretary of the Treasury. Its immediate supervision resides in a bureau of the department known as the Revenue Marine Division, which is in charge of a chief and a number of assistants. The present chief of the division is L. G. Shepard, Washington, D. C. The following statement is of January 1, 1892. ORGANIZATION. The present fleet of the service is composed of thirty-six vessels, all propelled by steam except two. Twentyfour steamers belong to the cruising fleet, sixteen being on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, four on the northern lakes and four on the Pacific coast. Ten steamers are employed in the principal harbors for exclusive customhouse work, and one is specially charged with the enforcement of the anchorage laws of the port of New-York. The revenue cutters have a distinctive ensign and pennant, and the armament is from one to four guns, with small arms sufficient to supply the crew. The duties of the revenue cutter service may be briefly stated as follows: They are such as pertain to the security of the customs revenue; the assistance of vessels in distress; the protection of wrecked property; the enforcement of the neutrality laws; the suppression of traffic in fire-arms and intoxicating liquors in Alaskan waters; the prevention of invasion of the seal fisheries by unauthorized persons; the enforcement of quarantine; the protection of merchant vessels from piratical attacks; the prevention of depredations by vessels upon the timber reserves; the enforcement of the laws governing marchant vessels, including the laws relating to name, hailing port, etc.; the laws with regard to license, enrolment and registry of merchant vessels, and the laws which require that life-saving appliances shall be carried, that passenger vessels shall not be overloaded, that vessels shall show the proper lights at night, that merchant steamers shall carry the evidences that their hull and machinery have been properly inspected and that their officers are licensed. The supervision of the anchorage grounds, embraced within the limits of New-York Harbor, is under the control of the service. The officers of the service are also required to report any disarrangement of the aids to navigation on our coasts. They are frequently called upon to suppress mutinies on board merchant vessels. Special duties are assigned to them in connection with the life-saving service. The general cost of maintaining the service annually is in the neighborhood of one million dollars, and the amount of property saved and assisted during the same time represents from seven to ten times the cost of maintenance. HISTORY. This service was instituted on April 23, 1790, at the second session of the first Congress, in an act to regulate the collection of the duties imposed by law on the tonnage of ships or vessels, and on goods, wares and merchandise imported into the United States." The primary object in establishing the corps was to aid in the collection of import and tonnage duties and to suppress smuggling. Ten revenue cutters were built, stationed from Portsmouth to Savannah, and officers ordered to the san e, appointed by the President. In point of antiquity, the Revenue Cutter Service is only outranked by the army. The Revenue Cutter Service has made an honorable record in every war known to the country, many of its officers winning renown and distinction while so engaged. Steam was introduced into the service in 1845. LIST OF VESSELS IN THE REVENUE CUTTER SERVICE. Steamer Manhattan, Captain Congdon, in charge of the anchorage grounds, New-York Harbor. Office Room 16, Barge Office. The United States Board on Geographic Names. AN act of Congress requires that uniform usage in regard to geographic nomenclature and orthography shall obtain throughout the Executive Departments of the Government, and particularly upon maps and charts issued by the various departments and bureaus. This board is constituted, and to it must be referred all unsettled questions concerning geographic names which arise in the Departments, and the decisions of the board are to be accepted by the Departments as the standard authority in such matters. MEMBERS OF THE BOARD. Chairman.-Prof. Thomas C. Mendenhall, United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. Secretary-Lieutenant Commander Marcus Baker, Hydrographic Office, Navy Department. Andrew H. Allen, Department of State; Captain Henry L. Howison, Light-House Board, Treasury Department; Captain Thomas Turtle, Engineer Corns, War Department; Pierson H. Bristow, Post-Office Department: Otis T. Mason, Smithsonian Instit en; Herbert G. Ogden, United States Coast and Geodetic Survey; Henry Gannett, United States Geological Survey; Marcus Baker, United States Geological Survey. United States Customs Duties. A TABLE OF LEADING ARTICLES IMPORTED, GIVING THE RATE OF TAXATION AT ENTRY BY THE NEW TARIFF COMPARED WITH THAT BY THE TARIFF OF 1883. THE articles covered by the Tariff act of 1890 number many thousands. The following table embraces about 300 selected articles, being mainly those in most general use in the United States. N. o. sp. indicates "When not otherwise specified.' |