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Show burden of the debt of the world as a whole has been increasing of late years, the amount of debt per head of population popula-tion has been on the decline. Bit; rmtsa The national debt of foreign countries amounted in 1810 to 826,621, 232, 185, un increase of 11,186,729,29! lor the decade. The national debt of the United States amounted to $9 1,1)60, 104, a decrease of 1 1,0:10.557,260. The state aud local debt of the United States, on the other hand, amounted to $1, loo,210,442, an increase of $ll,!iiil,715. In each case there has been a decrease in the debt per capita. The national deit of foreign for-eign countries fell from 185.02 per capita cap-ita in i880 to &12.88 iu 1890, the national na-tional debt of the United States from $:)8.:i3 per capita in 1880 to $14.24 in 1890, and the statd ami local debt of tin United States from 829.40 per capita in 1880 to 18.K1 in 1890. These figure indicate that while the ubbuluie |