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Show Slai'iiing Figures. E-li'.un lltrald: The ful.'jwiiv. w Ir.cb apptura in tl)H ecu q try as a quutaliou fr.m a tr:i-tnorltiy Eueliu jjarnal, I eend yen withou: cote or commaut. Gestils. Sir. Hoyle, a tee'.GUl fanatic, st-ut to the 2'imcs his ye.iriy JetcmiaiJ over the "drmk-bili" ol iho natifiD. Ha gayB tbat in 1S7S it cams to 1-12,-1SS.900, cr .132, GG'J more than in 1S77, notwithstanding the commercial disasters of the year, its dwindling markets, and its falling ivaa. I: is only fair, however, to add that it is o,C99,S60 less than in lS7ti But Mr. Hoyle'a letter ia scrtrcely reeptci-ful reeptci-ful to to the intelligence of ilia public, for it appears to assume that uo one ib aware that the population it nearly il.COU.OOO, and that there are 305 days in the year. A "Dittilier." writing to the Time Las pointed out that after all the euormotw totals quoted by Mr. Hoyle give no more alcohol to the population than would be contained in threeglaBsra of thsrry per adult per diem. Of course, nothing ii ao deceptive ai au average. The Quantity of opium couiuujcd in thii country ie perhaps not equal to a single drop of laudanum per bead per week; yet we kuow that opium-eatiog has many victi.n among vs. But still a conjumption of alcohol to ttie extent of three giues id wiuo a day for each adult does not of itself prJe eicees. And bo aa to cost. At the taverns which the leetotaleri are : every where establishing for the purpose pur-pose of competing with the gin palaces, the cuarpe for a oup ot coflee is Id , and of tea 2d. A cup of each would therefore cost oi. a day, or i lla.4d. per year. Tho tea and coflee bill of 34,000,000 persons at , iua. a year would be lo3,000,000 I a year, or a good de.il more than the intoxicants now consumed cost the country. |