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Show rasland I!U llrlnhtnr Mil. Ireland very often gets the creditor credit-or discredit of being tha most drink, consuming of tha three Kingdoms, bat I from an slaborate statement made at (fl the annual meeting of tbe nrocers' l nnd Vintners' Association in Dublin, It jH wai very conclusively shown that this J ws not so Kngland heads th list f with a consumption of drink costing 4 Es per head; Scotland comes next, -C3 6s lid, and Ireland third with only, 2 Ks 3d It Is worthy of note that h Scotland a spirit bill per bead Is only f one-half penny under 2, Ireland s ei 1 2s Id, snd Kngland tl 0a Cd Kngland a j beer bill per head la enormously big aa compared with the other two couni 1 trlea, being 2 10a Od, aa ngalnat C U Sd for Ireland, and 19s Id for Scot- I land Tho conaumptlon of wlnea come B to (a 7d per head In Ireland, 7a In I Scotland, snd 7s Gd In Kngland-a fair- 1 ly aven allocation. fl |