Show M R SCUOEXUOF the wellknown sta istician in the current issue of Brad i treete shows how the figures of the I census of 1880 were falsified in order to magnify the manufacturing interests of He country Very nearly every manu actured product had its cost counted everaltimes over A coat which sells for 5 is entered ence as wool at 1 next as cloth at 3 and finally as a product pro-duct worth 5the whole figuring as 9 in the census report Also a machine hat sells for 7 is counted successively asore pig bar iron and finished product pro-duct and in the total appears at 15 in the report of annual products Mr Schoenhof rightly concludes that this way of piling up the apparent wealthof he country is demoralizing to business and he hopes it will be stopped Mr Nimrno the late chief of the bureau of statistics affirmed that the product fif the country in 1880 was 98133214G1 of which sum Mr Schoenhof holds that 53393823519 purely imaginary |