The totals in the foregoing table of miscellaneous personal property are recapitulated, and the figures for Cook county compared with those for all counties except Cook, and those for the State as a whole, in Table XII, as follows:

* There were 7,214 licenses for saloons issued in the city of Chicago during the first period of the year 1893, commencing Mav 1. If the assessel valution of salons and eating houses in Cook county were applied to saloons alone it would make the average value of the 7,244 saloons $1.86 each.

That in the whole county of Cook, including the metropolitan city of Chicago, there should be but 397 fire and burglar proof safes, worth only $29.60 each, is in itself surprising; but when Madison county reported 218, worth $40.32 each, one is constrained to believe that both as to number and value this item for Cook county falls far short of the fact. Even Kane county confesses to 483, though of a lower grade in point of value than those of Cook; and, while Morgan county boasts but 62 in number, the valuation of each runs up to $93.30-almost as much as a good second-hand safe is worth.

In steam engines, too, Cook county appears to be notably deficient both in point of number as compared with the remainder of the State, and in average value as compared with the counties selected for comparison; while in the matter of watches and clocks, both as to average value and the number of persons to each, Cook county is at a very low ebb. With only one watch or clock to every 156 persons in the county, it would not be unreasonable to expect to find time-pieces at a higher average than $3.78. But those are the figures. Even Macon county has one to every 11 persons, and they average as high as $4.35 at that. Kane, LaSalle, McLean and Fulton counties each appear to have more watches and clocks than Cook, though the most populous has barely one-fifteenth the population of Cook, and the least populous not a twenty-fifth.