Show IN HOUND leisured lei hie of statistic the imports and exports of the fiscal year ending june 30 are quite satisfactory when compared with those of the previous year the exports of the year haye been over in excess of last year while the amount of money sent abroad to pay for imports has fallen off over making a balance of nearly in our favor as compared with the work of the fiscal year 1884 thus the exports which last year were only more than the imports are this year greater than the imports it is interesting to run over the list of imports and exports as by tho bureau of statistics and see what we buy and whai a sell for instance the importations of coffee in the year just past amount to pounds or an average of ten pounds per head all around in the preceding year the importations of coffee were but pounds our coffee however has not cost us as much per pound this year as last for although we ims ported pounds more we paid less for it our coffee bill in the year just passed being in round numbers or less than 1 each for the total population the importations of sugar in tho year just past amount to pounds or a little over forty pounds per head for every man woman and child in the country the importations of sugar have been in pounds about the same as last year possibly a little less the cost however has been very much less in the fiscal year 1884 the value of the sugar imported was over while this year it has only amounted to about 63 sugar is cheap alie world over this year the german and french governments have given large sums for the benefit of sugar production in their respective coun tries and the people of United states have unconsciously in most cases been consuming large quantifies of beet sugar imported from france and germany while the low arces in europe have corns belled the sugar producers of cuba to low prices for their sweets sugar and coffeo form by far tho largest and most important articles of import the next important ant in cost among the imports is silk the importations in silk in the year just ended amount in round numbers to nearly which by the way is or less than the silk imported in the proceeding jear next in value to the importations of silk come those of flax hemp aute and materials which amount to a year in round numbers cotton goods come next amounting to over curious it that this country the great cotton field of the world with its wonderful aties for should send over abroad for manufactures af cotton those ostrich farms in california must have been extremely busy in the past year at least the importations of ostrich feathers which in the fiscal year 1884 were were in the year ended less than the dear ladie shaye been busy however if not with feathers with something else for the importations of their bats and bonneta in the past year amount to against about in the preceding year there is not much opportunity for the horrid men however to make remarks on this subject for their imported coi cost them double what the ladica hats cost or in lound humberd num berd the bearers wearers of diamonds to have taken a sudden eprem of economy for in the year juat ended their iro porta tiona of diamonds have been only against ia the preceding year the cost of ladies hata given above does not make up the total however of expenditures in this line for their dress goods in wool and alpaca alone amount to 13 while the claths cloths mostly for gentlemen to wear amount to over indeed the total importations of wools and woolen gooda exceed in value of bill or cotton the total of all grades of wool and woolen goods being nearly cincinnati times star |