Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1889 — Cosmopolitan Dakota. [ARTICLE]

Cosmopolitan Dakota.

The proportion of foreign-bom to the entire population is about one in three, or at least that was the ratio in 1885, as shown by the federal census, and there is no reason to suppose it has changed in the three years since. A majority of the settlers of foreign nativity are Scandinavians, next come the Germans, Canadians, Irish, and Russians, in the order mentioned. One can scarcely' name a foreign country which is unrepresented among the inhabitants of the Territory. Colonies of Jews from Poland, Mennonites from Russia, Turks from Roumelia, natives of Iceland, and representatives of nearly every clime, color, and religious sect upon the globe, are here engaged side, by side in that; struggle for home and independence which marks the better civilization of the world.—P. F. McClure, in Harper's Magazine. A runaway locomotive on the Burlington road jumped the track only 100 feet from a passenger train, and thua prevented a terrible smash-up. The company should only buy that kind.