The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-03-19
pITH OF THE CENSUS.
FACTS, IMPORTANT AND CURIOUS,
FROM A DRY WORK.
why We Haven't a Greater Population
Proportion of the sexes-Great Cities
Work of the TeopIe-An Esti-
mate for 1890.


facts to bo Deducted from the last census.
According TO geomerical progression, he
says, the population Of the country in 1870
should have tceen q. so 452 instead of S.
5SS 81, and in 1851 Uae figures shonli
oayo been IS 4502n, instead of So
- 49, The causes of the deficiency
airs me numerical inequality OF men end
wolGan--the great preponGerance OF men
upon the frontiers, with a corresponding ma
loIity q women in the east; second, the
growth Of celibacy; third, ithe procrastinatlon
OF marriage among the marriageable class;
fourth, the most important, diminution OF
tLes procrontivc force or desire among the
peopie, due to moral prudence. This pru-
deHce is marked and increasing among the
native-horn, but not among the foreign
born. Gen. Nalker estimates the p0puatiu
in 1899 at something less than Sc, 900, 600
Discussing habitat aud environment. Gen.
Walker shows that the greatest population
Is found between the 10Th and 4lst parallels
and the list anlt90th meridians. One-fifth
Of the population live within 100
feet of the seN-level; two-ffths within
500 feet, and only O3 above an eleya-
cinn of ), 90 feet. The manufacturing and
Gated on the lowest levels, while the prairie
and grain lands are from 500 to l,500 feet
above the sea. The mean elevation OF the
country IS 2,GC0 feet. willie the mean Of pop
ulatioa is found at 700 feet Climatic con-
GllIcns range from s. degrees below 10 ll5
.egreas above zero.
b. per ceutage o. Inhabitants Of foreign
birth has iHcre9. oil from 9. Is in 1859 to IS 81
Since 1859 the proportion of Irish in every
lJ,00j foreigners la; fallen from 4, 2Sj to
:, 10 The Germans have gained pro
portionately The increase in Chinese
population has not been what might
have been expected. In 1850 the
Chnase population was rs; in 1869,
y, 800 in 1870, Is, 0J3; in 1889, 1915 600 The
division Of foreign born inhabitants as re-
CARDS occupation IS intere ,tinE. In agri-
culture @l3 Germans engage FOR every $40
Irish; in personal and professional services
rs servants, the proportion stands 2lS Cor
mans to AIS Irish. The criminal proportion
stands: Foreign 1900; colorod, 1900;
native, So 600.
OF women in the consus no says: All over
the worl the MURDER oE males born exceeds
the namuur Of female,. III the United
under B years ol age TO every 100 native
white females The proportion in Ma5sa-
causetts is l02 q TO 100; in Oregon, 1Ol. =;
ia Georgia, 1856 IN nearly all European
countries, the vitality Of thesfemaIes is SO
great that they finally preioIninate in num-
hers. In this country, the total native white
male population is log to 100 fomalos, the
mortality among the males being only q
trihe greater than among females. As re-
CARDS causes of DEATH ; 30 males die Of
alcoholism TO every 1900 females-the high
est disProlortion; the next highest IS in
suicides, / 900 male to l0D0 female suicides.
Almost ell the southern states have a nearly
equal number OF each sex In MaSsachu-
sets the females between - and 50 years Of
age exceed the nsles of the same age
by about ~, 900. In seyenty-eight
cities Of the country the excess Of females
is 5000 That iIliteracy prevails more
among women is due probably to the for
eign population. Women contribute less to
pauper.sm, the proportion being 81 600 to
So, 90 The ratio OF prison inmates stands
5.C6S women to 81. 100 men. Women are III
excess among the insane, and men in ex-
cess among tie iiiOtic, and deaf mutes and
the blind. In rsmarkinS upon the increased
number Of occupations open to women, Gen.
Walker EXPIRE sed sorrow to see in this liza
bility to celibacy or 70 lack Of home life and
Influence.
The proportion Of women who engage in
occupations outside Of tho household is
smaller in the United States than in Other
countries; but in no country is the proper
tionate number engaged in superior indus
trial occupations equal to that in thi,
country. OF the 26i7, 900 in occupations
"a. O,O-moSt of them c1loroi women in tn
sJUtAsrn sta5es-are engaged i'll agri
culture; g32 0oU-of whom about un@
half are IN New YogE, Massachusetts,, an
| Ponnsy lvaEia are in manufacturing; 2S2
600 are miliiners. etc, and -, 900 are tailors
81 he a occupations under the head o
"}gg. onal service" 40 include women Til,
SO female surgeons of 1870 have increased
| 10 -,4T&; the : lawyers to 70; the G
! cieg.ytm"n to 1865. Tho number of laundrie.
Ia Iu.rel ed from 81. $50 to IL, 900 and 81
tue latter los, 900 are kept by women Thi
! large increase shows great Tightening o.
! the housewife labor.
| GA the ubject If CITY Population" Gen
| Walker point out that the growth OF til,
/ population iii cites has been not less re
| marEab,o than that OF the rest Of TIN
| country. In 1879, when the Hrst census wa
! taken. there we're lat six cities containiu.
| 5000 Philadelphia with $4,000
New York with 33,0GJ, Bos5ol
with 1902, Charleston with IS,
| 900, Baltimore with 1000. and Salem
! with 1921, total Of Isl, AZ. or 3. per cent
| In 1859 there were 2S6 cities, with u popul4
ton of II, 3lS, III, " % per cent, Ties
| cities being thus divided in population: II
! with from S 600 to 12OOO; 76 with from II,
| 800 to 20 .0G0; s. With from %, OOG to % go
! q with from 40 900 TO 5000; 8 with iron
| = 900 to 115,0O0; 7 with from l25,O00 &
! 10 900; from 900 to 1000 5 iron
100000 to 1,0OO O00 AMI ! with more thai
! l,OJO,O)J
Perhaps the most important and signiGcaa
information presented by Gen. Walker
what he says about the occupations Of th
| pecpio of the United States. The census O
1889 gives the number Of persons engage
! in ganful occupations US 1882, 0Ol
| or 47.3l per cent. Of total person
over 10 years oil. These were engaged f
| tho four chief lines of occupation as follows
! Agriculture 1910, 900; professional and pei
sonal services, 4,O74 600, trade and transpoI
tntion, l,Sl0,00t; manufacturing, mechau
| zeal, and mining industries, $751;, 00l Tn
| number of persons over 10 years of ago
| g. 7jl 900, leaving 10,36a,0O0 unaccounte
for. The latter number is about equal {
the number attending school or PHYSICAL
incapable of labor.
| Agriculture remains the great occupatio
of the country, nearly one-half of all th
laborers being engaged in that employment
The mining population has increased froT
$4,000 in 1870 TO 234 900 in 1880. OF all i
occupations, PA per cent. are in profe.
sonal and personal service, which include
from the lawyer and judge TO the ban
Der and common drudge. There are ], SSs
| 600 under the head of common laborer. Til
number Of clergymen in 1850 was G4,0Oi
against $1,000 in 1870; the number Of Law
yer5 Ga, 900 in 1889, 40, 900 in 1870. The nun
Der of physicians increased during the d
cade from g., 900 to $1,000 In 1880 theI
were 4, 800 actors and l2,000 journalists
the country. The number OF domestic ser,
ants is 1,U76, 900, an increase Of only 10 p,
cent in the decade, although the populatio
gained 80 per cent. Iu 1870 there was on
servant to every 70 families, in 1880 OF
servant TO o. p families.