592 



THE CENTURY BOOK OF F A.CTS. 



Arizona 16,740 



California 15.283 



Colorado 1,034 



Connecticut 24 



Florida 215 



Georgia 2 



Idaho 3,909 



Illinois 1 



Indiana 71 



Indian Territory .... 8,708 

 Five Civilized Tribes 66,28'J 

 Iowa 397 



The American Indian. 



(Population in 1890, as Reported by the Census.) 



New Mexico 20,521 



Pueblos. 8,278 



New York 28 



Six Nations 5,304 



North Carolina 231 



Cherokees 2,885 



North Dakota 7,952 



Oklahoma 5,689 



Oregon 4,282 



South Dakota 19,845 



Tennessee 10 



Texas 



258 

 Utah ................. 2,489 



Washington ......... 10,837 



Wisconsin ........... 8,898 



Wyoming ............ 1,806 



Apaches, Mt. Ver- 



non Barracks 384 



Indians in prison 184 



Total 249,273 



INDIAN POPULATION IN DETAIL. 



The total Indian population of the United States, exclusive of Alaska, but including 32,567 counted in the 

 general census, being the taxed or taxable Indians, numbers 249,273. The following table gives the division of 

 the Indians in detail : 



Indians on reservations or at school, under control of the Indian office (not taxed or taxable) 133,382 



Indians incidentally under the Indian office, and self-supporting: 



The five civilized tribes, Indians and colored Cherokees, 29,599 ; Chickasaws, 7,182 ; Choctaws, 14,397 ; 

 Creeks, 14,632; Seminoles, 2,561 ; total, 68,371. Total Indians, 52,065 ; total colored Indian citizens 



and claimants, 14,224 ; grand total 66,289 



Pueblos of New Mexico 8,278 



Six Nations, Saint Regis, and other Indians of New York 5,304 



Eastern Cherokees of North Carolina 2,886 



Indians taxed or taxable, and self-sustaining citizens, counted in the general census (98 per cent, not on 



reservations) 32,567 



Indians under control of the War Department, prisoners of war (Apaches at Mount Vernon Barracks) 384 



Indians in State or Territorial prisons .* 184 



Total 249,273 



"Uncle Sam." The practice of calling 

 the United States Government " Uncle Sam " 

 is believed to have originated in the following 

 manner : During the Revolutionary war a man 

 named Samuel Wilson was a beef inspector at 

 Troy, N. Y., and was very popular with the 

 men in his employ, who always called him 

 Uncle Sam. After the inspection of the beef, 

 it was shipped by him to a contractor named 

 Elbert Anderson, .and was always marked 

 " E. A. U. S." A joking workman, being 

 asked what those letters were the abbreviations 

 of, replied that he did not know, unless they 

 were for Elbert Anderson and " Uncle Sam." 

 The joke was kept up and spread, until it 

 became common to refer to all packages marked 

 "U. S." as belonging to "Uncle Sam." 



Expectation of Life. 



Rubicon, the ancient name of a small 

 stream thought to be the modern Fiumicino 

 which formed the boundary between Italy and 

 Cisalpine Gaul. It is celebrated from Caesar's 

 having hesitated about crossing it with his 

 army, and initiating civil war, in the year 19 

 B. C. When he came to the river he paused 

 upon the brink, but finally, saying, " The die 

 is cast ! " he spurred on his horse, and dashed 

 into the water. Hence, " To pass the Rubi- 

 con " has become a proverbial phrase, to denote 

 the taking of the first step in a momentous 

 undertaking, from which one cannot or will 

 not recede. 



Illegitimacy. The percentage of illegiti- 

 mate births for various countries, as stated by 

 Mulhall, is asfollows : Austria, 12.9 ; Denmark, 

 11.2; Sweden, 10.2; Scotland, 8.9; Norway, 

 8.05; Germany, 8.04; France, 7.02; Bel- 

 gium, 7.0; United States, 7.0; Italy, 6.8; 

 Spain and Portugal, 5.5 ; Canada, 5.0 ; Switz- 

 erland, 4.6 ; Holland, 3.5 ; Russia, 3.1 ; Ire- 

 land, 2.3; Greece, 1.6. 



Positivism. The system of philosophy 

 known as positivism, taught by Auguste Cointe 

 (1799-1 857) , discarding the possibility of know- 

 ing the beginning and the end of anything, 

 concerns itself only with what lies between. 

 It accepts neither atheism, theism, nor panthe- 

 ism. It may be divided into two parts : The 

 historic conception and the co-ordination of 

 the sciences. The former is this : That the 

 human mind passes through three stages, viz., 

 the theological, the metaphysical, and the 

 positive. In all subjects capable of experi- 

 ment it passes from metaphysics to experi- 



