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Show DEBT OF THE WOULD. j; - - -1 i i i , - ; f., j. , , While That of Toreign Bationi tfas la- oreasad Our Debt Has Been ; ' ; Beduoed by Halt . ' STATE ASD COUSTT I5DEBTEDBES3 Another Tsoade Like the Last Would Nearly Wipe It Out Altogether A Census Bureau Bulletin. ' Washington, May 13.' The census tmrisu has issued a bulletin upon the debts of the world. As far as can be escertained, the debt of fofeigh nations in 1890, less the sink'ng fund, is t2.6;l,-OTB.OOO; t2.6;l,-OTB.OOO; an increase over 1S0 of 13,154,-fiOS.tioS. 13,154,-fiOS.tioS. " .-'v ; ': -The-debt of the United States for the saiiia- time s'iowae decrease of $l,(X)7.-sW.OOO, $l,(X)7.-sW.OOO, or more .than half the amount of the debt in WHO. Tbe decrease in the debt of states and territories for,the ten years to 1M0 is f)7,219.000;v,lo'the same time the debt of the counties has increased KS46.MKJ. - - , , , ; 1'he relative burden of the debt ia far heavier upon tbe iababitauts of the principal foreign conntries, except those of Germany, than upou this country. coun-try. .While in the individual fluctuations fluctua-tions in the amounts of Indebtedness in seventv-nlne foreign nations is reported to have been cousiderableluring the decade, - the aggregated indebteneas , shows relatively but little change, especially es-pecially if -compared with the increased population. ' ' ' " ? j - The aggregate national, elate and oouuty indebtedness per capita, shows a decrease of from &16.811' in iSSMo JJ0.46 iq 19'JO to the aggregate surplus tf receipts and other decad1ike the one just parsed would reliea the country from nearly all Its national, state nnd county indebtedness, could they be distributed for the purpose. |