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Show WASHINGTON ECONOMY. Barnum has been negligent. He has omitted to secure a treasure which is to be found in Washington a wheelbarrow; oneof the governmental kind which would so vividly illustrate illus-trate the peculiar economy of the administration, ad-ministration, and show how materially Genera Grant is "paying the national debt" by adding ten to twelve millions of dollars a month to it. But this - special wheelbarrow claims special attention; at-tention; and we gather the facts concerning con-cerning it from the Xeto York Timet, the leading administration organ of the country. This particular wheelbarrow wheel-barrow had been in service some time, long enough, perhaps, to wf couple of nails driven in; atne re to be repaired. TheJ,' the archives pairs is w-ionV It is brief, but to Of ATti TaA tlii. ftcI)ermott & Bro-'s repairs to wheelbarrow, 5-3, j a One might understand how nearly a thousand dollars worth of water coolers could be used up in a year ; and even of the wonderful amount of $350 being paid for hemming towels alwaj'B supposing the fair seamstresses seam-stresses hemmed the towels of Jerry Wilson and those other anti-polygamous M. C.'s, who shudder at the moral deformity of Utah nay, one couk understand how with $50,000 of a salary, and nearly four hundred "ou" Band dollars for ' contingent- P30" Bes," the Executive would -qulre, In one year $11,841.07 for but , , L could require how that wheelbarrow , , ' nn me i -nd where they $23.75 of repairs, J mystery to all the were put remainr J j-ers in the country, wheelbarrow r-, . , . .: . , it was upholstered in unless, vnImson gUk tQ th velvet jgjg to the imperial residence, .rly known as the White House, fr |