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Show SNAKES KILL MANY M Reptiles In India Cause More Deaths Than Any Animal. "" Tlgere Claim 90S Victims, Leopards and Wolvtt Slay 671 ; Other Anl. mala 8C Ravages of Plague Art Checked. Calcutta Over 21.000 Uvea thnt'e llio toll of the JuukIv and forest In i I ml In lor a single year. These IlKiircH of sinl.len di'nth arc ad out co'.illy In tubular form. In the I Hlue I'ook Just Issued uhlcn ileitis with tlm sliillailcs of the Indian empire, tin der the taendlnu. "Numtior ol I'ithoiii j and Cuttle Killed In MrllUh India by Wild Anliuiiln and Hnnkoa." Tim If t kik s Into il.-liilla. Thua ' ! loam (hut In the yeiir under review, 1808. no fewer tlinn SHU! people fell vie tltna to liners. 3U2 to leopard.:. hjle wolves claimed '.!9 aa their prey. "Other nnlmula" killed . ) Hut the ravage of the man rater i I arum- aa nothing compared to those of the anake, tor tho polroned fiinga of the latter put an end In 19,738 Uvea. To cattle, lenpnrda wero by fur the moat destructive. Their kill waa 42,427 head of a lotnl of 98.3U7. Tigers claimed aa their uurry 28.208. and wolves ithout lii.OUii. jnnkes, It would seem, are fnr leas fatal to ruttle than to huinnnklnd, for flurlnu the veiir they only killed 1U.000, a small proportion of the tolitl. Hut the war was not one-aided Seventeen thousand, nine hundred nnd twenty U of the denliena of tho Jim-Rio Jim-Rio tell belore the rllle nnd itiin. nml 7o.4!i mnkea runitlily. four for every person killed were destroyed. Iloun-Ilea Iloun-Ilea for their destruction amounted to $riO.IMM. The totnl population la nearly 300,-OOu.Oiiu 300,-OOu.Oiiu 21H.301.0G0. according to the lltoi rrnsua nnd they Inhabit 6ri.H4l.-815 6ri.H4l.-815 houses. Two-thlrda of the Inhnb-llnnla Inhnb-llnnla are lllndua. (12.000.000 Mohum vdana, and but 3.000,00 Christiana. The uvernnK Indian does not Indulun In overmurh letter wrltlna;. Altogether the post olflce dealt with 87b.2au,8:i2 letters, post carda and parcels an av- ernge of about three per head of the population; but this seems h an curious when It Is remembered Hint all but ir.,riim.ln0 of India's lluu.iioii, i people are described ns Illiterate. Thean latter lat-ter flKurea explain, tun, how letter writing wri-ting may be a lucrative etiipto: menu Very Intcrcstlnc. In Hie light of recent re-cent sedition trails, are some of the erlmn statistics. Thus 12.411 offenses aitnlnst the slate and public tranquillity tranquil-lity were reported, and 4.TH7 convictions; convic-tions; while dacoltles, political and othera, numbered 2.'.h4, with 6.r9 con-vl con-vl lions. As might peth.-ip be expected In a land ao deuaely (lopulatfd aa India, phjxlcil and metiuil Inllrmlly Is by no menus rare, and altogether the totul population nllllcted la r.M.l'jS. Lepers, mule and termite, numbered 1U7.3 10. blind over 3.Vi ooo nnd deaf-mutes deaf-mutes about 1. r. nun. The Innano pop uliiltnn was about M.duo. One of the greatest campaigns engaged en-gaged In India Is that ugalnat plague, but, dusplie vaccination and all thu re-aourcea re-aourcea of modern knowledge, the mor-tallt;- remains terribly heavy. Thua In 1909 plague claimed 174.874 vlctlma, a high figure, but ono that pnlea Into Itialgnlllcanee oeloro the totnl of l.;:ir,.Mi2 In in7. The death roll for the Inst 11 years waa 6,301.212. Koine remnrkable figures occur under the heading "1'rlnclpal Hpeellled Occupations." Occu-pations." Thus we find that 1,023,32 persona were engaged In "but boring" and shampooing the others, whllo clothes were washed by 6uu,uoo men and about Cm. Ono women. Nor ure the Indian ninsaea left un amused. Actors, slngera, dancers, bnridmasterH, playera, etc., numbered 2i'.K. ono about one for every thousand. Four of these are men for every wumnn. Trieste and others engaged In religion relig-ion numbered l.ir.n.r.2.'.. and sweetmeat sweet-meat milkers and sellers 2M.42I Hut perhaps the most amazing on try under tills hend of "Occupations" la "Mendicants tnonrellgloua)." The begging profession hud 2.433.1 IB expo nenta, and the total supported by beg-glng beg-glng (nonrellgloua) was over 4,000,000. |