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Show I c is related cf the late Dr. Strous-! Strous-! b"rg, the German railway king, : who may have said to have built the wt'.U system of German railroads, I -a;-) was tho reputed prs-nssor of : m.llion dollars, that he never ten thousand dollars which he oud fairly call his own, and at the , ! i.-it of bis power could never get KQ&t)ti ; discounted at the Prussian bank. For" ready money be was invariably in-variably compelled to resort to note vhawrs and Jews, and to pay such 'incredible rates for accommodation as thirty, fifty, sometimes a hundred ! per cent. Yet a monument to his g.nius exisU iii hia broad network I ut railways, and depite his mis-l.irtnnca mis-l.irtnnca be is regarded as a public ben- factor. The lnt-r-Uc-:--n is unfortunate in j its quotation. If it had been the Chicago directory now, it might have p;oTTraiiy thiV:g without fear of contradiction. con-tradiction. But the federal census is ' a diil'-Tent book altogether, svA it is a pity that the Iut:r-:;Lin had not ! !,i iko.l down the tables a li:tle further uulil it came to Chicago, that pre- Lmiueutiy American city, which has i;n rival and few equals in bombast :;i.d ga?, at Ie;it. The census of 1670 i.o-.vs t'ne following fACU in regard to Chicago: Total population L'.'.TT, i.f which thero were born in the I'uitcU states 151.-3-37, and in foreign cm' 'rics ltl,o"7, showing that nearly near-ly oi.f h'llf of Chicago's popuhtion Kirn out-lde of tiiO iiniils of the l u.'.' d StaUs, a considerably larger prop trli.m of foreigners than was shown in l-'loh, and this territory is t'.:':r-:'re more c.-seutially American t:ian U the city where the 'cr-'lC,(,t - print-.d. |