Show according to ahe returns ol of the gen eral census census bureau issued last week giving the population of 0 cities and towns in utah tooele thoele is credited with a population of 2753 in 1900 it it was 1200 Grants villes population is 1104 in 1900 it was 1058 mercur has hai 1047 people in 1900 1900 she had 2 the present population of stockton is and ophir I 1 the me present population ot of tooele thoele is I 1 in n df dispute as the cenus was taken last year yea when the big smelter was under construction that was employing a large arno ama of hands at the time but on its completion tooele thoele lost from to people that must be deducted from the census figures one officers acers say that our present population is less than 1800 that is the lowest estimate but the population today will not exceed 2000 heartrending accounts of 0 the ravages of the pneumonic plague in northern and the famine in eastern china comes in by every mail people are dying by the thousands in both the stricken districts in fact there is no way to tell the total number of victims victia is for the chinese are very loose in dealing with such matters americans Ane ricans engaged ia in the relief work say that two million millian people in the famine district are without other food than roots bark and weeds they have eaten all their animals and parted with everything tbt can be exchanged for a handful of food in some cases parents haye have even sold their children into bondage fora for a few brass coins when the missionaries sion aries at sha yang started to distri i butiro but esome rne relief supplies there was such li a riot that 21 natives w were ere trampled to td i death the poor starving wretches he 9 1 fought like demond s for for a snatch cho of ffoyd food one fir more t n h becan acin brag ol 01 in this country is that we have more people without anything to do than any 0 other her civilized country our census show that less than 39 per cent of our total population aye are employed in gainful mccu occupations I 1 lations pat ions as it Is called cabled on the other obiter hand great britain keeps 44 per cent of her inhabitants busy hungary 45 per cent germany and belgium 46 per cent italy SO pet per cent france 51 per cent and austria 52 per cent great britian has a smaller proportion of people engaged in agriculture than any other country namely 13 per cent germany 33 per cent the united states 36 per cent france 41 per cent italy 5 59 9 austria 61 and hungary 70 in 1865 ae he government go offered a reward of for or the capture of jeff davis and this sum was decided among the troop of soldiers who took him just lately a man by the name of john P smith tu turned med up in milwaukee who also helped but had never had his bis share so an item ot of was included li clouded for him in oa oas of 0 the appropriation bills this sessi session cn As some ome southern members raised objections the item had to be stricken out ut to let the bill pass what a human being can pass through and live was illustrated the other day at washington when a negro woman wai brought to a hospital with her body gashed all over with 40 knife slashes from an inch to 5 inches long given by her brutal husband it took SOO staches and 15 yards ot of silk thread to close the wounds the case beIn being gorle one of the most remarkable of the art sort in the history of surgery for the first time in many years a white mia man has 5 en sentenced to the whipping post in maryland he will receive 5 lashes and 2 months in jail for beiting beating his wife when h he learned thit that he be was to receive a dose of his own medicine he cried when buyink buying a cough medicine for children bear in mind that chamberlains cough remedy is most effectual tor for colds croup and whooping cough arld and that it contains no harmful drug I 1 for sale by all dealers I 1 stops earache in two minutes toothache or pain of bum or scald in five minutes hoarseness one hour muscle ache two hours sore throat twelve hours dr thomas Ec letric oil monarch over pain |