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Show The census has at last been completed. com-pleted. Chicago is now the second city is the Union. In 1880 she had but 503,000 and Philadelphia 846,000. Only ten years shows Chicago with 1,098,000 a gain of over half a million; while Philadelphia has 1,046,000 a gain of but 200,000, It looks now as though New YorK would soon be playing second sec-ond fiddle to Chicago as well. In 1880 New York bad 1,206,000 aud now she has 1,513.000, or a gain of a little over 300,000. The South is also shown to be waking up. Atlanta, with 34.000 in 1880 now has 65,500, Dearly doubling her former population. Birmingham, Ala., with less than 10.000, in 18S0, now has 26,000. San Francisco's increase in-crease has been a little disappointing, but she has passed Cincinnati in the race in a handsome manner and is now 8th, pretty far behind Baltimore with her 433.000. The Atlas publishers will reap a harvest har-vest this year, as the census statistics and new maps.etc, causes an immense boom in the business. We take the above figures from the Standard Atlas of the World, which will in all probability prob-ability sell by thousands, as it is one of the most complete and accurate works of the kind we have ever seen, If is safe to say that the first agent in the field will fairly coin money, as we all want the new census statistics and the new features in this Atlas which commends it to everybody. The History Company of San Francisco, the well know Publishers, control the Coast rights. They want agents, and we call attention to their advertisement advertise-ment in another column. |