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Show ' LIQUOR IN FIGURES. The board of trade of Great Britain and Ireland has just issued some interesting statistical .matter with reference to the production and consiiTirption. of aJcoholic liquors"1n -the United- Kingdom, France, Germany and the United States. The figures fig-ures are likelv to surprise people who are unfamiliar with the subject. The following follow-ing tables are compiled from returns received re-ceived from the Cnited States in 180f; with one exception they cover the returns if 1900 in the other countries named, and the first nf them has to do with the gov- ny3nTal revenues from alcoholic bever- Xet rev. Fropor. to 1 from tax tot. nat'l. on drink, revenue. "nited Kingdom $J7.S70.0fiO .16 per cent France 22,(4.(K)0 19 per cent fiermanv 13,717,0)0 18 per cent United States C9,9S.f)0f 29 per cent It will be seen that the British govern-fmont govern-fmont collects a greater revenue, by about I J12.0O0.O00, from alcoholic liquors than I France and Germany combined, and abOuf $3,000,000- more than the United States. The consumption of wine in the four countries ia as follows: Total - consump., Per hd., gallons. gallons. United Kingdom 15.si8.ono 9.: France 9S3.158.00O 25.40 Germany 8I.K54,OM J.4t United States 25.346.500 0.33 This serves to prove that France is maintaining her old reputation as the greatest wine consuming country in the j world, while it fails to show that the United States has been making as much headway as supposed in changing from hf so-called heavy to the so-called light drinks. One of the most surprising of the tables, however, is that covering the consumption con-sumption of bfer. the United Kingdom leading the United States and falling not I so very far behind Germanv: Total consump., Pr hd.', gallons. gallons. I United Kingdom (19fm 1.2!R.756.on 31.7 France (1900) :.1X,194.io . fi.2 Germanv H899) 1.S27.S7S.OOO ?7..1 United States (1899).... 934.21O.O0O 13.3 The per capita consumption of beer in the United 'Kingdom is greater by about .4 per cent than in Germany, while It exceeds ex-ceeds that of France by about 25 per cent and that of the Cnited States by IS per cent. Belgium and Bavaria, it seems, are the only countries in the world that exceed ex-ceed the United Kingdom in the per capita cap-ita consumption of beer, that of the former for-mer being forty-soven gallons, of the latter lat-ter fifty-four pallons per head. The table, relating to spirits has another surprise to offer: i oiai consump., Fer hd.. gallons. gallons. United Kingdom (1900) 45,890,000 1.12 France (1900) ,. 7S.452.0OO 2.02 Germanv (1300) 107.100,000 1.94 United States (1899) .... Sl.000,000 1.06 Contrary to the popular idea. Germany takes the lead as the consumer of strong drinks, although the per capita consumption consump-tion is slightly Kreater in France. The United States falls below, or rises above, the United Kingdom, as the case may be, in tJlis table, and. notwithstanding the reputation of our people as whisky drinkers, drink-ers, we consume a less quality of ardent spirits per capita thai any of the others. |