Morning journal and courier., 1892-04-15

other day and have not yet recovered from the shock, even though they were dead ones. School opened for the summer term and all went well till little girl and rushed out of the room. She had seen 8 snake peeping out of the plaster ing near the teachers desk The teacher | thought she was i'll and mistaken, and sent | her home. Half an hour later small boy saw a snake crawl out of hole near the chimney and killed 1t with a slate frame. It was warm weather, and pretty soon half-awakened reptile, five feet long, tum- bled out from a hole in the ceiling and landed with great thump just in front of the recitation seats. The teacher stood on the top of her desk till the big boys had settled his account. Then snakes be- gan to tumble bown by twos, bigger and blacker than ever. and the whole school, big boys and all, took to flight. The teacher refuses to enter the building again and the Chestnut Hill school term is ad- journed without day.
 EX-GOVERNOR WALLER TELLS WHAT A
 BUCKET SHOP DID.
 Ex-Governor Waller, in his address to the New London board of trade the other night, told among other "reminiscences the following: "Only a few years ago bucket shop was opened in the Crocker house block. It was patronized by our best citizens, lawyers included. The brokers behind it nobody knew. It re- mained with us 700 days, and as the books of the defunct concern show it took out of the to wn in dead losses $7OO, ,OOO. If like ours had been put into ten or twenty factories it would probably have doubled itself before now. At any rate nothing but an earthquake cold have wiped us out as clean as the bucket shop did"
 The Foreign Element in New Eng- land.
 [springfeld Republican
 The last decade was marked by an ex- traordinary inflow of immigrants to the United States, and how liberal @ share of the increase New England received is shown in the last census bulletin relative to the nativity of the population of this | section. The six states received from natural increase and immigration from other states of the Union in the ten years 341, ,4S9 persons; while from foreign coun- tries in the same time they received the greater number of 34S, 727 persons. There l were 793, ,612 foreign-born persons in New | England in 1880, and in 1890 there were | 1, ,142, 339-an increase of nearly one-half l or 43 g per cent; while the nstive-born in- creased only 10 per cent, or from 3, ,216, : 917 to 3,559, ,406. For the thirty years from 1850 to 1880 we added to the popula-
 tion of these states only 487, ,363 foreign
 born, against 348, 727 in the last ten years.
 Naturally the three southernmost of
 manufacturing states have received the | I..1t oG q, G. ko hor rf
 300, 900 of the 348 727 poured into these
 states, swelling the foreign born popula-
 tion of Massachusetts by 113, ,646, or AS
 per cent, Connecticut's by 183, ,5O8, or A.
 per cent, and Rhode Islands by 106, ,305,
 or 32.3 per cent. But the changes effected
 in the character of the population of the
 three northernmost states during the ten
 years are yet more striking. In Massa
 chusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut,
 although much of the larger part of tn,
 immigration went there, and although thu
 native born element increased relatively
 hardly IS per cent. in the ten years, ye
 the numerical increase of the native borr
 in each of those states was trlf1e larger
 than of the foreign born.
 But in the three northern states the in
 crease in the number of foreign-born in
 habitants was numerically as well as rela
 lively much greater than that of the native
 born. In Maine the number of nativ
 born actually declined by over 1900, whil'
 the foreign-born population increased ove
 10000. The same general result is re
 ported from Vermont, where the native
 born were cut down to the number O
 2,993, whilesthe forsign-born added 8, 12
 to their numbers. New Hampshire's cas
 is quite as extraordinary. Here there wa
 a small increase of the native-born elemen
 from BOG, ,697 to 304 190-but the foreign | born in the same time increased from 46, 294 to 72, 340-a gain of over 56 per cen,
 The Granite state has much more tha
 doubled it's foreign-born population in 9 years, while it's native population ha hardly increased 6 per cent.
 If now should be added to the numbe 1, of foreign-born in New England the mum
 ber of native-born whose parents were 0
 foreign birth, it would appear that tn
 element of immediate foreign extractio of purely native stock-the native-bor
 whites of native parents constituting 51. !, per cent. of the population of New Eu i gland, and the whites, either foreign-bor ,, or having foreign-born parents, consti tuting All per cent. The purely nativ ] element makes up "A per cent. of Maine population, 67 per cent. of Vermont
 67.3 per cent. of New Hampshire, an , only 47.S, 42.6 and 39S per cent. of th , population respectfully of Connection Massachusetts and Rhode Island. An ,, l that this great element of immediate fol eign extraction, making up now almol , one-half of the total population of Ne England, is being in the main rapidly
 successfully and triumphantly assimilatet
 there can be no doubt.