The Smiths Are Ahead Here

A paragraph is going the rounds of the papers to the effect that in the English speaking nations one person in 73 is named Smitli, one in 70 Jones, one in 115 Williams, one in 148 Taylor, one in 162 Davis, and one in 174 Brown. Of course, taking the whole country together, that may be the average, trat here in Aun Arbor, taking the directory to figure from, we flnd that we have more Smiths, with the assistance of the Germán Schmidt and its variations, than any other name, and that the average is one to every 143 persons. Next comes Brown, which by counting in the Brauns average one to every 200 persons. The Taylors average one to every 300; the Joneses only one to every 400; the Wïlliamses number only one to every 500 ; while the Davis family count up only one to every 1,000. Were it not for the Germana to help out on the Smiths and Browns here, the average of these twe names would be only about the same as the Taylors, one to every 300.