OCR Text |
Show Americans Are Thirsty. Washington. Americans must be a thirsty nation, judging from tho Imports Im-ports of drinkables set forth in a statement Just issued by the bureau of statistics. The United States drank the essence of more than a billion pounds of coffee in 1909, valued at $80,000,000 that was about a dollar's worth of coffee for every person In the United Statos. A lltle more than a hundred million pounds of tea, valued val-ued at $10,000,000, came In. But In rtplrits, wines nnd malt liquors, tho nation touched its highest record for Importation In 1909 and consumed foreign for-eign products of that kind to the value of more than $26,000,000, more thnn twice as much as was Importod in 1899. |