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"Yes," I put in, "when you come to know Danbridge as I did after that summer when you were abroad, you'll understand, too. Everybody knows everybody else's business. It is the main occupation of a certain set, and the per-capita output of gossip is a record that would stagger the census bureau. Still, you can't get away from the note, Craig.
As soon as there was a lull, Hamilton said to the newcomer: "I beg your pardon, but since you seem to know French, would you mind explaining to Madame what the census is? She seems to think I am a police spy, or something." "Oh, the census!" the girl exclaimed. "I could not make out what it was all about. I thought it must be some question of taxes."
"I know it looks suspicious, comin' from a Reeves," said he, "but I hardly see anything about it to start your temper so, Cap." "Why, he might just as well have sent me a writin' to go out and take a census of the hossflies between here and the Vienny town-line," sputtered the first selectman; "or catch the moskeeters in Snell's bog and paint 'em red, white, and blue.
The Indian census of 1901 tells us how the pure monotheism of Mohammed has been debased by contact with worship at human shrines: "We have seen in the case of Hinduism that the belief in one supreme God, in whom are vested all ultimate powers, is not incompatible with the belief in Supernatural Beings who exercise considerable influence over worldly affairs, and whose influence may be obtained or averted by certain ceremonies.
The disability-pension law, the taking of the Eleventh Census, the opening of vast areas of Indian lands to settlement, the organization of Oklahoma, and the negotiations for the cession of Indian lands furnish some of the particulars of the increased work, and the results achieved testify to the ability, fidelity, and industry of the head of the Department and his efficient assistants.
The siege of Lilybæum lasted till the end of the war, which, from the mutual exhaustion of the parties, now languished for six years. The Romans had lost four great fleets, three of which had arms on board, and the census of the city, in the seventeenth year, showed a decrease of forty thousand citizens.
Therefore the only way of ascertaining the mortality of those sections is to make deductions from the returns of the census, which is taken with more or less accuracy every ten years. The census of 1901 tells a terrible tale of human suffering and death during the previous decade, which was marked by two famines and several epidemics of cholera, smallpox and other contagious diseases.
Our business, however, is neither with manufacturer nor with agriculturist, but with a different class those, namely, who are engaged in the public works of the country. Let us take Mr Porter's estimate, according to the census of 1831.
The census returns of 1790 showed that population was going west along three highways. As a result of this movement, Vermont , Kentucky , Tennessee , and Ohio entered the Union. The population of the country increased from 3,380,000 in 1790 to 7,200,000 in 1810; and the area from about 828,000 to 2,000,000 square miles.
The Star Spangled Banner Up Again in Hawaii, and to Stay Dimensions of the Islands What the Missionaries Have Done Religious Belief by Nationality Trade Statistics Latest Census Sugar Plantation Laborers Coinage of Silver Schools Coffee Growing. The star spangled banner should have been waving in peaceful triumph over our central possessions in the Pacific for five years.
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