Some Interesting Figures

It is no wonder that Amoricaus take naturally to arithmetic. We love ciphering, becauso all the tables we compile reveal our great national progress. The census shows, that while in 1870 we had 5,922,471 agriculturists.the number increased in 1880 to 10,710,000. In 1870 we had 2,707,421 manufacturera which number increased in 1880 to 5,250,000. The wages in our manufac turing establishments increased f rom $378,878,%6 in 1860, to $1,500,000,000 in 1880. Then look at the vast accumulation of property in this country. In 1880 the wealth of England was estimated t ,000,000,000, while the United States was butlittle over 1,000,000,000. In 1880 the -figures stood : Great Britain, 44,000,000,000, the United States, 55,500,000,000. These are gigantie sums and represent enormous growth. The Uniied States today is tho richest nation on the globe, and lts accumulatioM are the result, not of economy, but of a wise manipulation of the forces of nature. Vast as has been the accuinulation of our wealth, it is nothing to what the future cenauses wiil show, tor it is not too extravagant to hope tbat by 1950 the United States will notouly be the most populou3 nation in the world, but that its wealth wi'l be gieater than the accumul.ited riches of all Europp.