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Show Tito Next Census. Already plans are in outline for tho collection of tho eleventh national census. cen-sus. Many of the shortcomings of tho methods of 1880 are to be remedied. That census was moro complete- thun any previous one, but the work was bo much greater than the sum available to pay for it that its day of greatest use was over beforo it was put in a shape to be available. availa-ble. Gen. Francis A. Walker, who was superintendent of tho last census, advocates advo-cates the collection of the statistics two years hence by the national bureau of statistics, which has Carroll D. V right at its head. He also suggests that tho statistics of population be taken by one set of enumerators and published as early ns possible. There is a disposition to make the census of 185)0 even more complete com-plete than that of 1S80. Philadelphia Times. |