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ages of fifteen years and forty years, and 104,072 were under fifteen 

 years of age. The following table gives the priucipal nationalities* of 

 the immigrants : 



Countries. 



Males. Females. ! Total. 



England. 

 Ireland . 



Scotland 



Germany 



Austria! 



Sweden 



Norway 



Denmark 



2fetherlands. 

 Switzerland . , 



France 



Italy 



Poland 



China 



Canada 



X ova Scotia 



Otiier Bi'itish KortU AuieiicaH provinces. 

 All other countries 



Total. 



^; 



2T5, 792 



29, 777 



36, 351 

 ^ 5,567 



G3, 260 

 2,667 

 5,647 

 6,319 

 1,605 

 1,529 

 1,164 

 5,298 

 1,864 

 1,114 

 889 



14, 598 

 1,826 

 1,001 

 3,515 



74,801 

 77, 344 



13, 841 

 149, 671 



5, 765 



14, 303 

 16, 247 



4,931 

 3,811 

 3,107 



14, 798 

 8,715 

 3,338 



20 292 



3l', 711 

 3,919 

 2,241 



10,968 



184,011 I 459,603 



The total immigration from the British Isles was 100,813. There 

 were 1,500 immigrants from linssia, 1,347 from Hungary, 1,170 from 

 Belgium, 1,101 from the Azores, 902 from Cuba, and 1,130 from. Aus- 

 tralia. The following gives a general classification of occupations : 



Occupations. 



Professional occupations 



Skilled occupations 



Miscellaneous occupations 



Occupations not stated, (chiefly women and children) 

 Without occupation " 



Total 



Males. 



2,747 



47, 490 



152, 375 



1,371 

 71, 609 



Females. 



239 



1, 302 



16, 143 



3,497 



162, 830 



10, 



r92 



184, Oil 



Total. 



2,986 



48, 792 



163, 718 



4,868 



234, 439 



459, 803 



Detailed statements of occupations show 36,983 farmers, 530 farm- 

 laborers, 538 gardeners, 104,423 laborers, 7,038 merchants and dealers, 

 0,406 carpenters, 4,293 masons, 2,411 shoemakers, 2,393 tailors, 1,894 

 blacksmiths, 334 clergymen, 187 physicians, and 370 teachers. 



Profit in clover-seed. — Our correspondent in Outagamie County, 

 Wisconsin, reports that from the second crop on a clover-field of ten 

 acres, clover-seed was harvested which sold for $340. 



Uniformity in weights and measures. — One of our correspond- 

 ents calls attention to the desirableness, on account of its great practi- 

 cal value, of a law passed by Congress securing uniformity in weights 

 and measures throughout the country. In illustration of the evils of 

 the present system, in which each State and Territory has its own inde- 

 pendent standard, he states that the legal weight for a bushel of seed is 

 in some States 12 pounds less than in others. Those who are not aware 

 of these differences in weight or measure are often deceived by quota- 

 tions in the newspapers, and in buying or selling in markets outside of 

 their own State. 



Forest-trees.— The following is an extract from the recent message 

 of the governor of Pennsylvania addressed to the legislature of that 

 State : 



