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Show MUCH IS SPENT FOR LUXURIES One Hundred Million Dollars Dol-lars Invested Abroad by United States for Indulgences; Indul-gences; Gems Bought. WA SlGXfiTi !Wvj8Vinxurie were purchased y- the United fttafs from abroad- to the ,ten,t of $lO0fOOlr 600 during the fiscal -ear 1&0, according accord-ing to the tabulation of the bureau of -Statistics of tlie Iepartirient of Commerce Com-merce and Labor. Thes- "luxuries" are classified as diamonds and other precious stones, of which 140.000,000 was imported; laces, edgings, embroideries embroid-eries and ribbons. $40,000,000. Feathers, natural and artificial. $7,000,000; champagne, $6,000,000, and miscellaneous, such as perfumeries, toilet articles, smokers' articles, and opium for smoking, mad up the balance. bal-ance. ' Tobacco, cigars and cigarettes were imported to the value of $25,000,000. This, is more than double th amount frpent abroad for such articles a deead ago. The item of largest increase iu the above list is said to be diamonds, as the value for 196 did not reach $S,000,-000. $S,000,-000. Opium for smoking was imported in the fiscal vear just ended to the value of $1,250,000, as compared with $75,000 iu 1896. |