The cost of recent wars, according to figures furnished by the London Peace Society: is as follows:

Crimean war

$1,700,000,000

Italian war 1859

300,000,000

American civil war- North

4,700,000,000

" " " - South

, 2,300,000,000

Schleswig - Holstein war

35,000,000

Austrian and Prussian war, 1866

330,000,000

Expeditions to Mexico, Morocco, Paraguay, etc. (say only)

200,000,000

Franco - Prussian war

2,500,000,000

Russian and Turkish war,1877

, 1,100,000,000

Zulu and Afghan wars, 1879

50,000,000

$13,265,000,000

This would allow $10 for every man, woman and child on the habitable globe. It would make two railways all round the world at $250,000 per mile each.

Losses From War In Twenty-Five Years (1855-80.)

Killed in battle, or died of wounds and disease.

Crimean war

150,000

Italian war 1859

45,000

War of Schleswig - Holstein

3,000

American civil war- North

280,000

" " " - South

520,000

War between Prussia, Austria and Italy, in 1866

45,000

Expeditions to Mexico, Cochin-China, Morocco, Paraguay, etc

65,000

Franco - German war of 1870-71 - France

155,000

" " " " " - Germany

60,000

Russian and Turkish war of 1877

225,000

Zulu and Afghan wars, 1879

40,000

Total

1,588.000

Length And Cost Of American Wars.

Wars.

Length.

Cost.

1.

War of the revolution

7 years - 1775-1782

$ 135,193,703

2.

Indian war in Ohio territory

1790

3.

War with the Barbary States

1803-1804

4.

Tecumseh Indian war

1811

5.

War with Great Britain

3 years - 1812-1815

107,159,003

6.

Algerine war

1815

7.

First Seminole war

1817

8.

Black Hawk war

1832

9.

Second Seminole war

1845

10.

Mexican war

2 years-1846 1848

66,000,000

11.

Mormon war

1856

12.

Civil war

4 years - 1861-1865

6,500,000,000