OCR Text |
Show ly, 4.3, 18.53 and, 1.45, anjncrease of nearly 400per cent, but a falling off in distilled liquors of tlxree- i sevenths. That is a hopeful sign. Wine has a Utile more than doubled, due to increased quantity and cheapened price, beer increased thirteen times, due to improved quality, cheapened price and more Germans, Ger-mans, while whisky has fallen oft almost 40 per cent. . . ; . ; ' ' ' "' ' We hope this isdue, not to a tariff, which has increased the price, but to a change of taste from whisky to beer, for beer. Vvas bether as-schnaps." But last year the bill was a big pne. For distilled dis-tilled - liquors, wine i and beer 1 the country paid 11,548,708,307 Half : the sum would rebuild Ban Francisco. ;.'' . .. , -' .. HOPEFUL SIGNS. In 1840 there was consumed for every man, woman wo-man and child in the United States of wines 2.0 gallons, gal-lons, of beer 1.36 gallons, and of .distilled liquors 2.52 gallons. Last year the figures were respective- |