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Show Counting the Noaes, The superintendent of the census of 18U0 says that tho work of enumeration of thn dill'ereut cities and districts will havo to be completed by June 80th. Tho preliminary work, ho claims, is much in advance of that done ten years ago. "This work is now being dono in Washington City," said the superintendent, superin-tendent, "whero the organization of our clerical force is so cNtensive and complete com-plete that within twenty days after the iast statistics come in wo will bo able to give the totals of nearly every department. depart-ment. We will use an electrical computing com-puting machine, which will do as much work iu livo hours us was formerly dono in tvvcuty-four. We have between 500 and 000 clerks at work in Washington on the statistics which are comiug in from the different states. It was difficult diffi-cult for us to get room enough in which to do tho work. Two hundred clerks are working in the pension bureau, and a bank building ami two new buildings havo been placed at our disposal." |