Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1895 — Our Foreign Population. [ARTICLE]
Our Foreign Population.
The Germans number 3,000,000 of our population. Bohemia has furnished us with 118,000 people. Poland has furnished us with 147,000 immigrants. Austria has sent to our shores 128,000 of her population. China has given us 106,000 men, mostly laundrymen. Italy and Russia have each furnished about 182,000 emigrants to America. Hungary has sent to our shores 62,000 descendants of the followers of Atilla. 1 According to the oleventh census there are 2,000,000 of Irish among our people. The total immigration.from France to this country has slightly exceeded 113,000. The immigrants from the Scandinavian Peninsular and Denmark exceed 1,000,000 in number.
