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Show Many Live a Century. Tho United States census for 1900 finds 3,536 persons In the United States who aro 100 or more years ot age. Tho value of these figures may bo ques-tloned, ques-tloned, and perhaps may be best estimated es-timated by tho fact that 72.8 per cent of tho wholo number aro negroes, n any of whom have no reliable evidence evi-dence us to the dato ot their blrthi They aro but 11 per cent of tho total population. It scema Improbable, too, that this country should hrtvo over 3,-COO, 3,-COO, when Qormany, with a population of nearly 35,000,000, has oly 778, and England, with 32,000,000, only 14G nnd Franco, with 40,000,000, has only 213. |