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Show lll-iIlllllllIKIV OK AIIIIITV l TlIK UMihii urm.s. Hittitr C'aiwt Iiiaie baa an article In the ourreut number of tho Uilory magaalnn enllllod 'The lilttrlbullou of Ability In the United Hlatet." It laouu that la attracting wide attention. Mr. 1. lo took the alt viluuiea uf Appleton'a Cycloprxlli of Amerloan lllography at tha bislsof hla urtltle. Tholl.iMlntintalu thttworli virtual ly lucludo all -Ihu men aud wouieu who by publicly rogtiltod ability htvaraleej themselves abjve Dm ooui mm level. Ha cli-elflee Ihla Hat b) Hlatet, rai.ee and nativities. Clatsirledliy Hlatea the 11,211 bad their birth at follows: M..cliiitti, WW; New-York, SOU, I'oumylvanla, ItlTj Coniivrtlotit, ll'JJ; Virginia HMij Marylaud,61.'j No Hatunlilre. 3IIIJ New Juaey, t Milne III; rliuth Carolina, i, illiln 1, Vermont, . '), Itli le It ivl, '.aii tle.rglii, .n, ran .,1 I' , IleLtaro, il , in limit, 1 fl trlct of Columbia, 73, lnu ma 1 Illinois, 1, Michigan 41, M e-wurl, , MatMina, 11, Mls.iaslpp-I, -11, Flotilla, IL-, Wisconsin, IS, California, fl, Iowa, A, Arka-imt, 3, Tela., I. Thla list glvra the actual place of birth, 111 matter mat-ter wlteredlrtlnetion Inn bten achieved. Though Abraham Lincoln waa virtually virtu-ally an Illinois man, yet ho it credited to Kentucky. Thu II, tin nanus divided by occu-tlontglve occu-tlontglve 1150 statesmen, 180 J soldiers, sol-diers, SIOI clergy, I WO lawyers, 8.',9 Ihyslilana, SiWI llteralure, Ml art, oil science, 110 educators, 41S navy, busl. iim UD, philanthropy 331, enilneels 174, archllecla 4 mutlclana S3, nclort lus. Of tho 14,43-1 nameiclaaalrled according accord-ing to face, over Ici.tHk) aro of English deacenl, alsiutleoof Heotch.lrlshnnd Irish drecent, tkaiof (Jermaii, and eoon down to tha Poles and rtusilans, who have one each. There la also a list of 1371 Imml-grauta Imml-grauta who bare placet In the Cyclo-1-u.lla. ArcorJIug to countries, Hog-land Hog-land cornea rlrat with i, Ocrmany errond wlili 3li, and Ireland third with rvj, HcolUnd ISI, Walea 15, franco no, Canada 0,1, and to 1 11 Willi other rounlrtre down to Hailn and Portugal, which bare one each, Ihera are In thla list of Immigrants A3 negroes, SO of wtioni obtained die-Unction die-Unction aa clergymen. |