Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-11-11

countries are given as follows: Bokbsr.
2l3O,OoO; Arabia, 5000 600; Persia. : 600
UU0; Atghsnistan, 1000 000; Beloocbil
IAN, 3oO 0OO; China, 434 626 500; Isnsn
"a 338 ,504; Cey,on, 2, 100 557; India I'm
ilsh, French and Portuguese possesein,SS'
24l O23SGS; The Iudo Chinese Peninsniah
369o3 QUO; last India Islands. "a SI3 Goo
Inc leading populations ia Aries arc,
Egypt, II, 42O 600; Central Soudan. IN IN
OOO; West Soudan and Uuper G1inoa
43 90. 1000; North Equ, tlrial Rsginna'
$1,000 600; South Equatorial Re9ions'
20 OO0 900; Independent South Africa. IA
2SG350. 49,
We finally come to America, in which
our readers will Re most directly inferes,-
I'd. The vast territory of British North
America with an area almost &c LARGE az
the United States, has but g $50 40 in.
hsbitants. NJ Y co reaches 8 4S5 600 The
census returns OF the United States for
1880 were not st hand, of course. lint
Benin and Wagner estimate II at 4s 500.
900, which will, we think, be found too
small. The Central American States foot
up 1853 300 and the West Iudies ( 4l2 70O
The South American States show the fol.
lowing figures: Guiana, 345 500; Vene.
zuela. 1,7S4 1877; United States of Colon.
bia, 100000; Ecuador, lac 900; Peru.
$3.50 900; Chill. 2 100000; Argentine Re.
public, 1851 706; Uruguay, 440 900; Para.
gusy 293S44; Brazil, 1l,l0S 291 The
Polar Regions are largely a matter of
conjecture. as they are not favorite dis.
tricts for census takers. The only regions
where census would be practicable are
Greenland with 10000 people ana Iceland
with 10000, but the entire region shout
the Arcuc Circle Is set down at SIS, 400.
The South Polar Regions are not credited
with any number at all, as at last accounts
there was no one there.
OF course, nearly all the figures above
must be considered rs estimates, since
more than one-half of the world is out.
side the supervision OF census takers, and
cares very little how many people inhabit
II. Still the work of Benin and Wagner
is the only trustworthy statement we
have, and as 1t comes from two of the
most eminent geographers, who devote
their lives to their profession and who
have the latest otf'Uisi data at hand, their
figures may be regarded as approximately
correct, IL Is an evidence of the thor.
Oughness of their analyses that the scat
tered fragments OF our own census which
have reached them, NOT Official they re.
statement, because the returns from the
South bear evidences of foul play. This
objection would go to show that, with
true German literalness and fidelity OF re-
search, they do not use their imaginative
powers III estimating population, out em.
plOy the most scientific methods. Taken
altogether, their aggregate IS cheerful, as
showing that Mother Earth is by no
means sterile yet, ana that the Scriplurs
command to multiply and replenish is go
faithfully observed that wars and pesti-
lence, ana casualties and the inevitable
laws of Nature themselves, cannot OBJ.
s'ruct humsn etfort-except in ST Louis.
Messrs. Benin and Wagner in their great
work nowhere allude 10 that city, though
II won d be exceedingly curious to know
what these model census takers would
think OF the peculiar methods Of census
taking practiced there Chicago Tribune.