Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1881 — CENSUS BUREAU. [ARTICLE]

CENSUS BUREAU.

Tlie Annual Report—Population of the States and Xerritories. Washington, Nov. 20. The annual report of tno Census Bureau, covering its operations since the Ist of December, 1880, has been submitted to the Secretary of the Interior. The iield-work of the census has been completed in all the departments except those relating to the department of shipbuilding, to the production of petroleum, arid a lew other industries, and to the population, resources, etc., of Alaska. Six ageuts are employed ill these departments, and will complete tiieir work in a lew weeks. On the Ist of December last the number of employes was 1,084. The maximum of the clerical force was reached on the 15th of March, 1881, when the number of employes was 1,495. Five-sixths of the cler.cal labor of the bureau has been accomplished. The revised and corrected returns of population show the following to he accurate : Alabama 1,^62,505 Arizona... » 40,140 Arkansas 802,523 California 864,601 Colorado ~ 104,327 Connecticut ~ 622,700 Dakota V 35,177 Delaware ~ 146,608 District of Columbia 177,624 Florida 269,403 Georgia a 1,542,180 Idaho 32,610 . Illinois 3,077,871 Indiana. 1,078,301 lowa 1,624,613 Kansas.....' 096,086 Kentucky 1 1,648,690 Louisana 930,946 Maine 648,936 Maryland. 934,942 Massachusetts 1,783,083 Michigan........ 1,636,937 Minnesota 780,773 Mississippi.... 1,131,597 Missouri 2,168,380 Montana 39,159 Nebraska... 452,402 Nevada 62,266 New Hampshire, ' 336,991 New Jersey 1,132,116 New Mexico 116,565 New York 5,082,871 North Carolina. 1,399,750 Ohio 3,198,062 Oregon 174,768 Pennsylvania 4,282,891 Rhode Island ; 276,531 South Carolina a 995,577 Tennessee. ;. 1,542,359 Texa* 1,591,749 Utah 143,963 Vermont 832,286 Virginia...'. 1,512,565 AV&jbington 75,116 West Virginia 618,457 Wisconsin 1,315,497 Wyoming 20,789 Grand total 50,155,783 Superintendent Walker refers to and reiterates his statement in regard to the inaccuracies of some of the statistics of the ninth census, and he doubts if c ither of the three censuses of 1850, 1860 and 1870 obtained half of the mineral product of the country, or compassed twothirds of the total number of the defective, dependent and delinquent classes (the deaf and dumb, blind, insane, idiotic, criminals and paupers)‘who have by law been made the subjects of a special enumeration. All the statistics of the present census he considers sound and reliable. The extended, work'increased the expenses of the bureau. The ninth census cost £3,336,000. Since then the population has increased 30 per cent., and other estimates of the cost of a census have increased propoitionally. Had the cost of the census work kept up with the rate of inciease it would have reached £4,500,000. The census for the first time collected the statistics of railroads and telegraphs, of fire, marine and life insurance, and iu other departments the information obtained has been at least double that of any former census in mere matter of bulk. Cannibal Scotchmen. When Scotland liad a climate very much like that of Cauada to-day, when the Hebrides boasted great forests of immense trees, and when, too, a man could have walked on dry land from Edinburgh to Stockholm, the primitive Scotch-folk were as peculiar in habit and head. The skulls of this, period, which are still occasionally dug up, all belong to what is characteristically called the “boat-headed” type, and the good who owned them indulged iu a variety of savage practices, from having a community of wives to eating their own children. Prof. Owen says: “The lowest skull in the Caithness series of an ancient stone-period resembles that of a West Indian negro.” He also found a child’s jaw “ which had been broken, for its dental press was not gnawed by beasts, and concluded the race to be cannibal.” Little wonder after this that one scientific observer asserts the antique Scotch skull is far more animal-like than those of any European race either known in history or hitherto discovered in pre-historic tombs of the iron, bronze ox latter stone periods.” There is something almost humorous in the contrast thus presented between modern Scotland—demure and devoted —and the olcT, old Scotland where a kind of unutterable savage was in the habit of rampaging about, combining wholesale Mormouism with the delectable habit of feasting on cold baby, s 'iSraf, Huxley goes so far as to link thsseprimitive ancestors of Sir Walter Sc6tt and the Marquis of Lome with the Australian Maories, but they were so inferior to the latter that they had no sense of ornament, not a single fragment 1 of bead or bracelet belonging to these dim ages having ever been found in all Scotland through. Almost depressing is this idea of a people who belonged to so debased and low a type of 'humanity. One comfort lies in the fact that they lived a very lotog time, ago, when Glasgow was the site-of a sea, and what is now the bed of the German ocean did not contain water enough to have filled a teacup. —Bow Bella. The best kind of revenge is that which is taken by him who is so generous that he refuses to take any revenge at all.