Show THE CUBAN CENSUS The census of Cuba has just been made pub pub- J The total population is and per i r cent is put down as pure whites So it seems that ever every third person in Cuba is a negro There Thereabout t ti i are about more negro women than males in inthe the t same race A A still greater ratio holds good among the mulattoes There are more mulatto mu mu- l latto tto women than men There are too female male and males in the Mongolian race S most 5 of them from China very ery few from Japan gain Again 1633 per cent have hae mixed blood in their heins including mulattoes quadroons and octo octo- J Croons r. r ons This census gives the DIe number of native nativeS c r S whites whites aj aL males and females Fort For- For t whites males and females Of fn JT negroes groes males and females The Thes s first census was taken in Cuba in 1774 and showed a population of In 1877 the population 1 h had hd d increased to From the year of the census to the present the population has in- in n. n We suspect that the excess of I females among the mixed races there is due to th thEt the brig t S g civil war that was going on before the 1 States tates took a hand hanel A good many were polled a great many were starved to death V Wyler ler the last gove governor or general of Cuba under Spanish rule nIle simply went to work vork to starve or to kill kill all who were disloyal to Spain which wa was rel savagery But we presume he justified himself on the score that the wretches were not notto notto fi t to live any way |