Show CENSUS FACTS TO LAUGH AT fu fill sons ous thial bilings rl S Gatli gathered ered from all 11 aarts of the e country Con THE surprising absurdities SENT IN of special agents mu il I 1 queer vital sell sntos ian lle marka on debt and taxation A finont too malay girls to af amago tribu le I 1 borin sept 30 the census I 1 Is a clug h ing periodical it II once lit in ten years and Is prodie alco ia of all sorts of super la 11 P I 1 corier gorier 0 rier to hi bl contract coir act mill ill haie aa coll feted before lizifore his big duty Is completed a mass ot car lull fao that mould canji corn rose ose in itself it delsole library M R humo humorous roup appendix to I 1 ahli voluminous reports depons the element of 0 tile llo ludicrous enters largely results archimed by tile RHE ocre ia take till for tile the livi tun or 0 VI total statistics sonic ot alic schedules tn by were filled oil out t 11 r swanner i manner quite according I 1 ecsi resident dont individual to 10 the p turns I 1 jas in alron akron al ron iv wa ts an air infant pix pl bentli rid old by trade a cm pouter tied and died hit var mily of 0 01 old nage A wont woman ky icv J four I 1 ices atac otac e A a boil boa car carriar r or by occue occupation it oil 11 Us ud died orafa from nl sa co upon lep thing still slun ihor pcr was al rp ro r rila from childbirth tl ford beeba after pur filing the occupation of ft ihl thi croup carried him ott off at tin ati ly aro age I 1 of torii piti 1 lie allcan es to vt blell had succumbed accord luiT to the IT Lurns I 1 were quito remarkable date cile hail bad lost her life from chronic in arloss mean meaning I 1 it g on prewit insatiably but tile favorite av orllo complaint seemed to bo be chronic that signi signified fled this ono one or that ono died of chron chronie cb ronie ic end and nothing ilsc ay lj I 1 among tile ill follit funniest lest things are the hie letters idlers which have boon reEl lived by 11 1 ar porter requesting cot fro tile census bureau ono onn arrived only tho the other day from Orol OrON llo 1110 cal saying can you in form nio me how low I 1 can call get on to lo ciN enforce force the lobster law I 1 liaf haf been on the police foi foice co hot hoi ca 0 rive livo years nd lat it week eck N wo 0 was al ach arged by a rum nun bord boid wo we was put lit in by a board land now this rum alord Is coln to live its own war wa tills this year A gentleman resident lit ill Scotts spottsville scottsville ville S Y krou hoar hear anything itilene to my character cha calra ratter lor front this ayou need riot not believe that it la Is to bi as I 1 sm am not an idiot or buy any ot of those other oilier mean names I 1 have been called cn an read and write and have good health I 1 do not mean to have my namo name injured as I 1 am ain agent for or tillous articles please write and toll mis mok if the census taker or any anyone one else in this neighborhood has mado made any about jno 11 S do not saml this bath back but keep it to refer to ono one Sou southern thoris clarg clergyman man of 0 tho the african persuasion asks tor for pay arld and signs himself your friend rev R wright lepowe rusty may meet in glory ducro wo we I 1 part no more Ati oLlier man mail tn in greenville S C thinks bocan ho can do a gob ol of work ts its senses rouses taker itkor as mall as the luo actual appointee who be was drunk july nil tho the ath stud and ath too A life long republican ot of the afro american typo lypo his services from rom Jack jackson springs N C tin bit the india nho distinguishes himself above lothers al all in 1 mr mcgrath of calais ohio who rho 1131 mr r robert P porter acar sir wo we tire are friends Ir lends this la Is all I 1 can write to lou mcgrath I 1 j 1 the tha a agents el I 1 IS who have in ili charge ah tho 0 1 estigo 0 ol 01 f the oyster laid industry astry anil i it hiola e I 1 r t tak a k 0 specially facci ally arduous caus in order to discover how many oysters are captured la in tills this country lit in a year tile the euins Is obliged to ascertain exactly bowmans low many of 0 these interesting bivalves are taken per annum by each person eat cn il ira in the business to accomplish still Is in not so easy for example take tile the case ol of an agent in who lie tackled a sample negro oysterman about no 00 miles sob hiah ill of 0 hero on the roto inac said ho he lauw may oysters do you catch in ill 11 reir asur I 1 i dubino Du iino boss dont you lit know icam how bow many bushels bue liels no ko bos bof ja well ell cihat hat did you yon sell them for what they wei acie 0 worth boss i f but what wore they iorli Lb got for them bos I 1 come now m elhat hat did you got for I 1 I 1 bliem eni give mo me soule idea faint got no ideas boss 1 1 nall elf what was paid 3 ou for or them choln I 1 enough to pay tit all my debts boss 11 ilow how much did ou oil oa owe a aowad owed ever body hob tint was all tho the agent was ablo able to from this subject who m as a jair Pech rOll of cals lorman to got get tho the cl as to hla case etwas it was to go 0 o around to every one whom ho he land had dealt a with during tho the car arid and make an estima to accordingly the fisheries batteries division ot of the census r MO across all sorts of funny things abong other things it desired to know this value of tho the carp it aich has 0 boon been into this country and tile profit by them ono oise mail 10 eliom a schedule was submitted rot back that tho the carp in ill 1114 lii pond flood M been worth sig 1900 00 to hilna lo in the ilia part 1 l ills v ito fro had been sick and he bad ad fed her during that period ox voly carp to which diet lie ho attributes her recovery ery alic waa worth let him he said i at least therefore be estimated his gain on oil tile the Iti investment vestment at abat rum um I 1 1 A A FISH citory vl of tile tho fi alli h schedules rats raa auray 14 the th ingalls anti a reg response lionso from arid it haidn was received d saying we la noll sli hole as WS wa havo have not et ct I 1 iva in finding a variety that could oil 01 1 as ril g biais re rc AI wi i i ii boned no lie carp but that hitting ing heard that nm acre over ever no BO luy y pretty women in the Ce tolio sec tt W bo would bo be glad it t ii U t porter would place to 14 in co with three ur or ir of ill tabe of le aling of illa benena in ansome some parts the nithe urn ordinary nry i ucal Jeo graphical it it most lost liard hard in X f ibern 1 reg soi au southern U utah tali southern adi slid ad florida jn in erslon oro ore anions I 1 ih 11 there is f buell ine k of dinall facilities tw jhony wore moro more titan than irh miles 5 from all hlll ar so 90 that LINO 1 10 id d 1 to hu his by also BI age y arid 11 tim 1 ho it is astill rd utah slad ayd southern 1 14 BY W 91 to ise to iva to wake venice I 1 correspondingly VO it i difficult ill fd as ly swarup 11 14 ls M people over by y f 1 the th kripli part of t territory gidaly and traus 1 1 I 1 I 1 t ion being bel ng pl mol oil I 1 of thorl alio llio q nest ion the most mol dramatic incident of tho census occurred in tile great greal nevada desert li I 1 ii was only able to got ills I 1 a blank butil schia schedules dules from tile thi apoll lor by having thern them bouvo oil to him across ti tio llo o dovi deceit t a 1 ill distance tance of lie by byan slit indian the copper colored mo bogir took look is olllie ith lui link only 1 u I bikk or of 11 ater I 1 undid to d id not aralio 0 m lien ito ho was wad soil and the enumerates alstrin ed it ill the tl delay zet out to look for him hills StarL ilig across the lite dreadful waslo from aron tile alin jado tin lin retail found after IN ft days day journey along tile trall the corpse corpo of 0 the indian halt burled in ili tile and stand f 1110 icso ger hid had died of I 1 A CYCLONE r I 1 told this story yesterday having jubil heard it lafrom alio chart bif ors 0 ral to lo tile chief of lite da I ion 0 of accounts said lio ito anxiously did the enumerator find lite tile wi wh 11 0 body my ily anslavar ayi w i affirmative seemed ser ineil much relieved lie ho was indifferent to io tin tile rate laio of the lite indian but bin niost niest about tile hie fee cards in ills his charge all A it soils otis ol of difficulties were encountered polite of them of a very tory nature lor instance tho the house of one such appointee in PA dam halm is blon blona A siy ay high by a cyclone arid and the profit nor ilk NOO dulos duly tilled filled out bid blown it illo different count countley leq the greater part of tho fourth district diss riet ol of L wa under mator during tile hh 11 elloso birc by law lor for tho the of tile census hut but the census ltd imi lo 10 0 o bp be taken though lite enumerators V m c rai cal to go 0 about in boats 2 no pu lions naked by tho the census agents elicited Ilef ted such funny answers as lid did alio queries regarding mortgages one onamay mail said had mortgaged his bis property for tile purpose of getting an all edu cadoo IN jn biblical prophesies A an cadier pledged his house and lot to get gel 1 jor for mair lABO lago epo still au another cather bad lii as a ills object lit in low lew tile purcia cm 1 of twenty gallons gallon of whisky A altizen of south carolne Carol lim nt had hypothec caled ills his estate cs lalo to pay his subscription foe a preach proa choi ci in ili mariland INIn rilland was found a L plan man who hall bad borrowed borro Nod tile amount necessary nece to pay for a in tile wear war anti and ho he hait only boon been able sinco since then to pay the interest and keep kee p on renewing low ing the mortgage A nother person in ohio lud laid mortgaged mort gal pat liis his lund laid for tho the purpose of obtaining money to pay tor for a A resident of illinois had boon been put pill Ina bolit by gysi a suit stift tor for la n by an ail rate irato husband tho the charge being alienation of tile tho ol of ills his wife the accused endorses indorses Indor ses lils schedule with mith tho remark Torro woI 1000 to settle but I 1 have the iho woman A texan teion secured soc a loin leall to 10 aitay itay the of rai raising a family of eleven achl children adren rivis this dh won 1 which devotes I 1 bitsi 19 attention to lo cobl dobl lob and taxation lun has I 1 had t ad its feelings match hurt by tile responses ghen to lite inquiries of its agents and circulars of the latter it sent out vast numbers number to all sorts of officials in every town of the union asking mho mera horn the iho chief men ilion in the communities addressed homr bow much lite people beio taxed for and so on ifft of tho the responses were courteous but many were bulto othor other wl n olio case person applied to returned tile iho schedule with tile tho endorsed endor endorsement sei ont go to hell I 1 another says 1 I ito is too short A third remarks my MV wife taxed me tor for tn avi ins ills last mouth month 04 tho the chief man in authority in this ibis place tat says a fourth Is a oman and antis her official designation is ann anil lano jane amalu A fifth from it a small loarn ow hii in nebraska Ne brasla most of the people out hero heri live with their alies wh as and PUY pay taxes when wheat the sheriff compel then them very ve ry many of the schedules particularly whore where mortgages nd lid debts aro are concerned are filled in with unpleasant epithets addressed to tj abo th 0 census CO ansu 4 authorities aut he r find and with records of experiences recorded by this lisull pI sull kicked mo me out of his house 1 Is a comment not so very infrequent on a schedule sont sent in by this or that enumerator A dog was set on mo cicro bebe bitten badly doctors bill sa 2 11 Is another plaintive form of report ono case ohio enumerator refers to a man more brute than human chases cow cawi and other animals kept in a cage ago this thia refers to a maniac m who he has to bo be caged to prevent him from pursuing tho the a mild beast in many instances stances pomplo refused to give their li names anies two women ira in ono leouie hold in tile mountains signed themselves ellav nav ll it all alp and iltis bot IL tit lt all on one debt and tax scho dulo is endorsed by in an official elal alica returns it simply 11 kills rats rats I 1 THEY WAST there cems to bo be toll felt allover all over the country a widespread objection to doing any census wark gratis says ono one correspondent from roni nebraska wo dont live on oil wind pudding out hero here send bend roo me sa 5 another front from colorado writes the mayor Is too lazy to do tills this tile treasurer dont know how arid and I 1 dont care to yours john smith editor edit car democrats are particularly opposed to doing anything in this way tor for a republican census wo 1140 no DO surplus sas a correspondent from iowa la ira fact we wa aro are minus A baldhead od gent front from tho the east camo cis me out here attained tile tho of our town and ducale away our cash 5 OC please howse remit reavill rea till A woman in BB gag owing to tile death of my husband tin I 1 am lining filling tho the of assessor at present I 1 dont think wo have any valuation or taxation because there Is 19 only rive people in the town aud and they have nothing value ifopo this will bo be enough to coul complete pleto your census tho the special pedal agents who had to collect data regarding tile fisheries were exposed to some embar raming rebuffs for exa example ullo tile young gentleman delegated to interview the fishermen of michigan on oil lite st clair claar river had occasion to tackle as IN a sample specimen billy of marine city good cond morning said the agent ivo ive come mr bir to got tile tish list cry cennus Ir thi liali hell you have responded mr tills this was rood example of the reception accorded the agelas of tile fishery dlin dh lalon islon axi DIPLOMACY tit in lite agent was mas obliged to play aralis crai cr alis is with mr and get gel him drunk lit in to obtain lite lu in formation on nalton lie deslich des lied tho aline agent osado mado iiii lit way into another ait aither coluse awl ami asked incidentally liow how much liis ills bon boat ww was worth ile ho replied twenty aho dollars but isla ills difo sal oh jim it is yorlli sure aura it if ll 11 its 1 n ol 01 th a cent 11 upon whirl LINO husband flung a bao babick ick ut at ills his cifes hoed and doing this tho the agents tor for the census were obliged to lo cultivate the utmos artson diplomacy A favorite scheme implored imp loyed by ono of the shrewder ones oneo fisit to pretend lood that he discovered a ro ral between himself and lite lio pir per pi r set front from whom ho he desired to obtain ln lit atlon if iho individual addies addle isell rd v as a it did riot not mako intake any the connection in that ca tatu cao o was on the an mothers others side if tile 1 ing up of a mana installs property did let im drink mid and cigars often would it was no not nain an infrequent occurrence occur ence tor ono one in 1 wasa it a crowd lit in a bar romi which tho the agent durold business osiss to say eaf lets haves have a drink on uncle saml saint which mount an expense to the agent not provided for by congrow ional appropriations in the mountains of and kentuck tile tho region of some omo of tile ag agents out car caran 0 soar lint being shut shot liy lay portions persons who wit that they mc re gohei cament do one mars inan vis mas follo followed followell weil for a mail with it 1 rille alio ito in ready to pot pop islas olt off in rno rn o anything should arrhe one thing thine ns its to mortality niort allty in tile butil outil wi wai that very noway many people ns as rp poncil of of tile inhabitants of tile tho eolith str i according to lo LINO have aurl cicil front from ahk com coin during alio lal car two tholand thou and doting women most of III em pr prilly ti y ari are lit in maldeis nal anit ail ii I 1 has cle brath aws s of tile U ill fed still Pl itlo OA ahe 1 ho task of conti oil rig bhain 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