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Show Germany's Drink Bill. Washington. Germany's enormoub drink bill Is explained in letters to tha bureau of manufactures from American Ameri-can Consuls Brlttaln and Guenther. Each Inhabitant consumes a yearly average ot six and a halt quarts ot wine, 129 quarts of beer and nine quarts of brandy. For a population of 00,000,000 people, the liquor oxpondl-turo oxpondl-turo Is $072,588,000. The average for male citizens over 15 years would be $37.."1C. By contrast, German expenditures expendi-tures for schools wero $99,722; for working peoplo's Insurance, $104,244,-000. |