Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1898 — Spends $1,000 a Minute. [ARTICLE]

Spends $1,000 a Minute.

The expenses of Great Britain are now about $500,000,000 yearly or nearly SI,OOO per minute, but every tick of the clock represents an Inflow of a little over $lO into the British treasury, thus leaving an annual surplus of about $20,000,000.