Show CURIOSITIES OF THE CENSUS In the Issue of Harpers Harper's Weekly VV for March 11 appears an article by Robert Sloss upon Some S Curlo Curiosities of ot tho the Cen Cen- su sus It Jl appears that In tho year ear one ono Elkanah h Watson predicted pur QUI our In Increase increase In in- crease in population f KO 50 accurately that in 1850 his figures figurel were only behind the census of that year The The Tho virtues th the vices Ices th the morals and the lions tlona of this generation he will will descend In their Influence to those hoso re remote remote ro re- mote periods and form tho the basis buls on which will trill bo he grounded tho the national character manners und and habits of of or Americans nt itt tho the clo close o of or the tho century There were not born boin resi residents dents In this country in IS ISIO 1820 O continues tho the author of this article not one fit of or tho the population In 1900 one- one born Could eighth of us were foreign Elkanah I Watson atson have havo foreseen that fact he ho hardly would have stated slated l so confidently dently that lila bin generation would furnish the thA b basis bails ls on which would be the tho national character at the l beginning of oC tho twentieth century century- |