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Idicy In The United Slates

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Day
17
Month
December
Year
1875
Copyright
Public Domain
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The number of idiota in the United States, according to the census of 1870, was 24,572 of whom 14,484 were malen and 19,042 females 3,188 were colored and 1,645 foregin bom. But the number and their proyortion to the population canuot be ascertained with any satisfactory degree of accuracy. The census statistics are nntrustworthy, both from the different staudards adopted by enumsrators, and from the difficulty of per8uading parents, from whom the returns are usually obtained, that their children are idiots. Horiie of the worst cases in idiot asylums wore brouglit thete by their friends, not as idiots, but as boinga little peculiar in their habits. The effort has been made in several States to obtaiu returns from physicians, clergymen, and town officers but with very moderate Buccess. So far aa these returns go, however, they show a inuch greater prevalence of idiocy than bas been oommonly supposed ; and it is now generally conceded by competent judges that the number of idiots is greater than that of the deaf and dumb or the blind, and ag great as that of the insane, the proportion being not less than one in one thousand of the population. Assuming this ratio, the number of idiots in the United States would be more than 38,000. - Appletont' American Cyclopcedia, revisad edition, article 'Idiocy." Flockino to the Par West. - Emigration to the Pacific coasts States has been very large during the last seven months. For the period beginning on the lst of March and continuiug until the lst of November, the Union Pacific Railroad Company sent west from Omaha, on emigrant cars alone, 50,000 emigrants. During October they Bent out 176 cars containing 5,025 persosons. The travel on the first and second class cars has also been very large. From Kansas, Texas and Missouri, 6,000 wagons averaging two persons each have crossed the plains and niountains for the State of Oregon. Railroad men and station agents report the overland travel with teams larger this year thau any since the railroad was bnilt. Specimens of a new bogus postal card were detected in the New York postoflioe receutly. They are made in imitation of the old style card, but are not technically counterfeits because the words "United States Postal card," and in place of the usual direetion to write the address only on one side the message on the other, are the words, "You may write the address and message any where you like and send it."

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