| Show scandinavians aviana in the united states A series of articles on diff different cren nationalities I 1 in the united states fords forms one of the unique features of tho the current volume of tho in ill a lato late number A albert bert shaw discusses the scandinavians dinavi ans and gives the following in his valuable computation of statistics more people havo have loft left norway sweden and denmark luring during tho the last seven years to malo make their homes in the united states than during tho the entire previous cj existence stence of our country with one fortieth of tho the whole population of europe tho the scandinavian countries furnish nearly one twenty fourth of the alie aggregate european emi emigration 0 ration of tile the united states state s during the six decades from 1820 to 1880 since 1880 we have admitted in round numbers european recruits to our shores of whom about haro been scandinavians that is to say we are during tho the current decade drawing 12 13 12 1 3 2 per cent of our new foreign population from a group of kindred nations which leave only 2 12 1 2 percent of the population of europe public opinion |
