The Mena weekly star., 1897-01-20
CENSUS BULLETIN.
Figures of General Interest Just Fur
 nished by the Bureau.
AMERICA'S WORKING HOSTS.
The Total Number of People Engaged in Occupations of All Kinds in 1890 Was 22,735, 5,G6I-Those Engaged in
 Professional Pursuits.

WASHINGTON, Jan. t9.-A bulletin of the 11th census just furnished shows that the total number of people en- gagged in occupations of all kinds in 1890 was g, 735, ,661-an increase of over B. 100000 working people in a decade. This whole number of working people consists of those ten years old and over and makes up over 36 per cent. of the entire population and almost 47 per cent. of all persons ten years old and over Of the whole number of working people the females form 17.22 per cent.
 Divided by classes the working peo- pie of the country are as follows: Agri- culture, fisheries and mining, 9,031, ,336: professional, 944, ,333; domestic and per sonal service, 4,360,5 ,577; trade and tray1s- portation, 326, 122; manufacturing and mechanical industries, 5,091 ,293 The domestic and personal service includes hotelkeepers, soldiers sailors and ma rines, laborers, barbers, detectives. etc. The first named class is 10-year gain of over 1,0e0, 000 or of almost ], ,00O. .000 for a score of years.
 Considerably more than four-fifths of the illiterate male population of the country and over one-fourth of the illiterate female population are work ing. Over 59 per cent. of the working men are married, over 37 per cent sin gle, over 3 per cent. widowed and one quarter of 1 per cent divorced. Of all foreign whites at work here 14 per cent. of the males and 13 per cent. of the females cannot speak English. Of this s15 per cent employed in domestic and per- sonal service cannot speak English and almost per cent. in the manufactur- ing and mechanical industries Manu- featuring and mechanics embrace the largest number of females who cannot speak English-oyer 4 per cent.-with domestic service a close second.
 In Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut the males engaged in man. ufaeturing and mechanical industries in 1890 constituted very nearly one-half of all the men in the gainful occupa- tions In 24 states and territories in cluding all in the south central and most of those in the north central and south Atlantic divisions, the males en- gagged in agriculture, fisheries and mining constituted more than half of all the working males. Of the females at work by far the greater proportion were found in domestic and personal service in a large majority of the states and territories.
 In manufactures and mechanics the carpenters and joiners number ell ,4S2 and make mp the greatest element. with dressmalzers and milliners following. with 499.690. There are a little over 100000 bookleepers, clerks and sales men, 090,6 65S merchants, and dealers, 5,aS1 agricultural laborers, .349.952 min CTS and only a little over 6o,0Oo hsher- men 5tnd oystcfInen.
 Professors and teachers aggregating UI ,3i4 form the most numerous of the professional classes. Physicians and surgeons, with f04, ,S05, come next, then lawyers, s0.630; clergymen, S6.903; gov ernment officials, 70,6G4; musicians, etc, 2,l55; engineers and surveyors, 42, ,239; artists and art teachers, 22, ,496; journal lsts, 21, $40, and actors, 9,72s.