Great Britain and Ireland, 1,245,500,000 39.0 United States, 336,301,826 8.7 Bavaria, 329,190,208 65.5 Austro-Hungary, 300,017,266 8.3 Prussia _proper_, 257,630,403 10.0 Belgium, 210,463,000 39.4 France, 195,305,000 4.4 Wurtemberg, 92,241,067 49.0 Russia _proper_, 80,560,000 1.2 Holland, 55,067,000 14.2 Saxony, 52,520,480 19.0 Denmark, 38,800,000 20.0 Baden, 34,394,164 22.8 Sweden, 26,500,000 5.9 Switzerland, 23,585,000 8.5 Norway, 11,130,000 6.1 Trieste and Dalmatia, 1,393,237 2.6 German Principalities, not above enumerated, 119,670,460 20.5 It will be seen from the above table that Germany, exclusive of German Austria, brews the enormous quantity of 885,646,782 gallons of beer, or about 20.7 to each individual in a population of 42,727,360. Most of this is consumed at home, and great quantities are imported from Christiana, Norway, and Copenhagen, Denmark, while ale and porter are largely brought from England. It is worthy of notice that Bavaria, which has been known for centuries as the cradle of men of arts and sciences, stands at the head of the list of beer producing countries. With a population of only about five millions, it brews three hundred and twenty-nine million gallons or 65.5 gallons to every individual; and next in rank is the little kingdom of Wurtemberg, the native state of the great Schiller. Munich, the capital of Bavaria is especially celebrated for the long array of men of arts, letters and science who have either been born there or adopted it as a residence. But it is, at the same time, the greatest beer-drinking city in the world. It produced in the year 1876 no less than 1,198,951 hectoliters = 31,772,201 gallons, and its actual home consumption in that year was 956,455 hectoliters = 25,346,057 gallons, which, in a population of 198,000, gives 128 gallons a year for every individual, costing in all $6,216,955, or about $31 per head. The amount paid for beer is less by $1,363,800 than the amount paid for house rent. In the years 1877 and 1878 the amount paid for beer fell off, but for the current year (1879) it will, according to statistics thus far received, be larger than ever before. The taxes for the municipal government and city taxes are less than a tenth of the amount expended for beer—and yet there is not a more orderly and well behaved city in the world than this same Munich. All this is indirect evidence