Eureka Reporter | 1903-05-29 | Page 5 | Many Live a Century

many live a century the united states census tor for 1900 finds 3 persons in the united states who are or more years of age the value ot of these figures may be ques cloned and perhaps may be best es timatea by the fact that 72 8 per cent of the whole number are negroes many of whom have no reliable evi dence deuce as to the date of their dirth they are but 11 per cent of the total population it seems improbable too that this country should have over 3 when germany with a population tf ot nearly 35 has oly and england with 32 only and france with has only