Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1893-02-07


The hapless trees. unconscious Of their fate.
Trusting their lover, smilesl In hls embrace,
Nor knew him false a. fair, until too late.
For lcve 10 Omen fatal TO the thing be,oyed,
And often clay with ruthless, cruel hand.
The Ice. Kings passion. typical Of msn's.
Has scattered wreck and ruin o'er the land.
IsA GERrRUDE WHITMAN.
Buckheld, Jan. ~. lss.
CENSUS ODDITIES.
ENTERTAINING FACTS FOUND BY
GOVERNMENT ENUMERAT0Rs.
The pop camera has played an impor
tant part In the taking OF the eleventh
census. Thanks to Il the volume com
prislng results will be n series Of most
entertaining picture books, filled Wit,
pictures of everything that IL suscepti-
BILE of being pictured. An entirely new
feature OF the work, never before at
tempted, has consisted In preparing
descriptive reports on the savage peo'
ples OF the United States and Alaska.
These are exhaustive ethnologic treat
ises, profusely adorned with plates u.
Illustrating the manners aud customs OF
the races discussed. The -quarto ON
mines and mining, which Is the only one
as vet Issued, contains many fiash-light
views Of scenes In the bowels OF the
earth.
The most picturesque feature OF the
census picture books will be that por-
ton which relates to the natives OF
Alaska. In the region drained by the
Kuskakwim River and Its tributaries
numerous villages exist In purely
aboriginal condition, and thousands Of
people beheld In the official enumerator
the first white man they had ever seen.
That official, while ascending the kuska-
kw i'm River, subsisted chiefly on the
eggs Of wild fowl, which he purchased
With needles. Needles are u negotiable
medium In that country, and hc carried
his supply Of them In his waistcoat
pocket. On one occasion the natives
who padded his boat robbed the nest OF
mallard duck Of Its eggs. For joke
the enumerator dropped three needles
into the nest as II In payment. Taking
the matter quite seriously the natives
spread the report through that district
that here was man so anxious to trade
that he paid ducks for their eggs, aud
the news was carried for hundreds OF
miles, causing the censu, agent u good
deal Of trouble and annoyance.
Even figures are sometimes pictur-
esQue. Those put together by the census
bureau seem to Indicate that the people of
Chicago are cleaner than those Of New
York, inasmuch AS the average person
In the windy city uses ninety-one gal
lous of water daily, whereas the con-
sumption of the same 1uld on Manhat-
tan Island Is only seyenty-four gallons
per capita. Residents Of Buffalo must
be remarkably clcanly, inAsmuch rs
each Of them expends l06 gallons OF
water per diem. However, they are not
In IL as to this point with the citizens OF
lIOboken, y. d., who use $50 gallons
apiece every day. The people OF Waco,
Texas, would appear to be the largest
consumers of the same element, their
average being so gallons for each In
but the greater part OF this Is
for purposes Of irrigation.
On the basis Of reckoning above adopted
the residents of Fall River are unap-
preached In their economy OF water,
inasmuch as they utilize only twenty
i've gallons daily per capita.
Philadelphia ought to be called the
city OF fountains. IL has 6i6 OF them,
Baltimore coming next with l37, and
Boston third with seyenty-four. The
water supply OF Milwaukee Is largely
consumed In the shape Of beer. 1t may
be presumed that the people OF Milwau-
kee drink more beer than those OF
any other town, inasmuch as the beer
gardens Of the city have seating capacl-
" for more than One-half OF the popu-
lation. The town which can boast OF
having the greatest number Of saloons
In proportion to Its Inhabitants Is Attain
tic City, N. j. IL possesses fifteen such
resorts for every 1000 people. Butte
City, Montana, which long held the rep
utatian of being the wickedest town In
the United States, has only thirteen
saloons per 1000. Chicago has more
dogs than any other city In this country,
Il, 900 OF these animals annual
ly at 81 each.
The census returns give very Inter
esting picture OF the relative density OF
In the great cities Of this
country and abroad. Taking the aver
age, Chicago has only thirteen inhablt-
ants to each acre Of ground. People
are much more crowded in New York,
ninety-four Of them being packed Into
each acre. But In Paris there are l62
persons to each acre, aud Berlin stands
at the head OF the list Of European clIies
with 255 individuals per acre. IL seems
rather curious to learn that New YORK
averages eighteen people for each
house, whereas London figures out only
eight persons for each house. This is
because London Is very much spread
out and most of the dwellings are small.
In Paris where the houses are mostly
big and the people live In fiits, the aver.
age Is twenty-seven for each house, and
In Berlin, for like reason, IL IL ffty-
one. No other city In this country has 30
large graveyard area as New York,
Its THIRTY y-nlne cemeteries containing ut
present the remalus OF 1,3Gs ga dead
people. The metropolis on Manhattan
Island |, also the bcst-llghted city, hav-
Ing forty-seven street lamps to each
mile of streets. Boston comes next
with thlrty-four lamps to the mile, and
Providence next with thirty Tampa. New
Haven /. the town which has the largest
area Of parks In proportion to lie size,
New York being close second.
One OF the novel features OF the elev-
enth census IL a series Of colored maps
showing the comparative prevalence Of
the $50 different forms Of religious faith
hell In the United States. No Partially
has been shown to any sect or denomi-
nation In preparing these graphical repre-
sentations, an careful show being given
to the "Mudhead' and "Old Two-Seed"
Baptists, while equal distinction has
been drawn between the two branches Of
the United Zlon's Children, which only
differ as to the processes employed In
washing and wiping each Others feet.
Branch A contends that ono person
should both wash and wipe, while
Branch Il contends that one should
wash and another should wipe. Even
the disciples of Schwelnfurth, the soi
disaai Christ, who have their "lieaven"
near Rockford, H., where they cast .
solid Democratic vote the other day,
have been duly reckoned. The fact
seems surprising that the Mormons are
represented 10 nineteen states and terri
tories outside of Utah.
There was Si.2S worth OF silver and
gold produced In this country last year
for every man, woman and child ln the
United Ststes. To dig aud redno it cost
o20.07 per troy ounce for gold and u an
"a, M. iop silver T'bis shoWa that mlu-