Show uses a million pencils washington the enormous quan titles of supplies used by clerks in the nine executive departments here Is forcibly rated by figures for the fiscal year ended june 30 it Is thrown that tor the 12 months corn the last fiscal year there were 1117 lead pencils used it aured uncut these would make a mam moth pencil miles and 13 rod placed side by side they would make a blaid walk 28 inches wide and seven miles long according to the rules each clerk Is allowed one pencil every eight days the army of clerks used 68 sheets of paper cut letter size every year these sheets placed side by side would cover a plot of 2 acres and have some left over the government last year pur chased and distributed 4 pen points buying more than pen holders in which to utilize them the clerks asod 8 gallons of paste there were issued to the clerks 76 i 1 t i o 0 pints of black ink and 5 pints ot red ink the government used 6 pounds of pins which according to count run 24 to the pound this makes an aggregate of pins rubber bands of all sizes were faed to the number of 20 |