30 POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



Sffttp Nnmhpr of Croats ^**'o *° "^^^^^ Number 



''*"®- JN am Der ot Croats. of Croats Landed. 



Pennsylvania 16,726 56 per cent. 



Illinois 3,547 11 



Ohio 2,923 10 



New York 1,651 5 



All other states 5,386 18 " 



Total 30,233 100 per cent. 



The Ruthenians. 



The statement that nearly all Russian immigrants in America come 

 from Austria may seem strange, but it is true. Last year 7,540 Rus- 

 sians came from Austria and only 1,536 Russians from Russia. 



The Russian Slavs are divided by philologists into three divisions: 

 Great Russians, White Russians and Little Russians. The Great Rus- 

 sians occupy a large quadrangular area in Russia consisting of the cen- 

 tral governments, from Novgorod and Vologda on the north to Kiev on 

 the south ; from Pensa and Simbirsk on the east to the Polish provinces 

 on the west. The White Russians number less than four millions and 

 occupy some of the western governments adjoining Poland. Great Rus- 

 sians and White Russians do not emigrate. The Little Russians occupy 

 the great fertile treeless plain, the black mold belt in southern Russia, 

 which extends from Kiev to the Black Sea. They also people the two 

 Austrian provinces of Bukowina and Galicia. It is said that a line 

 drawn eastward on the map from Cracow in Galicia through Kiev in 

 Russia will divide the Little Russians from the Great Russians. The 

 Little Russians occupying Galicia and Bukowina, Austria, are known as 

 Ruthenians. They are also called Russniaks and Red Russians. Nearly 

 all our Russian immigrants come from these two Austrian provinces. 

 The Ruthenians are typical Slavs. They have a rugged, sturdy 

 physique, and the men are almost all unskilled laborers. They were 

 distributed in America as follows, during the year ended June 30, 1902 : 



otnta Number of Ratio to Total Number 



°'''^^^- Ruthenians. of Ruthenians Landed. 



Pennsylvania 4,153 55 per cent. 



New York 1,594 21 



New Jersey 746 10 " 



Ohio 328 4 



All other states 732 10 



Total 7,533 100 per cent. 



The Czechs. 

 From within the boundaries of the kingdom of Bohemia and the 

 adjoining province of Moravia come each year several thousand immi- 

 grants of Slavic blood. There is little difference racially between the 

 Bohemian and Moravian and they are usually classed together as 



