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metal of those glorious constellations, which as Mr. Everett says, 
“Far up in the everlasting belfries of the skies chime the hour of 
twelve at midnight.” The education of the people, of the whole 
people, has been occupying the attention of parliaments and sen¬ 
ates as never before in the world’s history, 
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But one of the most stupendous evidences of change, and pro¬ 
gress too, would be found in the fact, if true as the census states, 
that ten years ago, there was not a single horticulturist in the state 
of Wisconsin, while to-day, there is in our midst a society embrac¬ 
ing far more than the whole number of horticulturists in the 
United States in 1860. It must be conclusive proof that this 
society was not deliberately made, but, likeTopsey, it “ growed.” 
I suspect the census takers must have been as much puzzled as 
the Dutchman was about himself and his twin brother. He said, 
“ when I looks at mine bruder, I tinks it is myself, and when I 
looks at myself, I tinks it is mine bruder sure. So I’s not sure 
which is mine bruder, him or myself, but I tinks, on the whole, 
myself is mine bruder.” These census takers were not sure 
whether the horticulturist was a farmer, or the farmer a horticul¬ 
turist, but, on the whole, they thought the horticulturist was a 
farmer, and so they put him down as such. 
According to the census of 1860, 233,523 persons were engaged 
in different occupations in the state of Wisconsin. Let me enumer¬ 
ate a few classes. There were 1,100 physicians, 1,133 minis¬ 
ters, and 1,231 lawyers, illustrating pretty well as to their relative 
number the saying of a man who had combined within himself 
the functions of physician, clergyman and lawyer, that “ he had 
found the average man willing to give 25 cents for his soul’s 
salvation, 50 cents to be made well if sick, and $5.00 to have his 
own way.” There were 3,949 teachers, 2,976 merchants, 28,238 
laborers, 588 public officers, and 240 United States officers. The 
great majority of the remaining 225,269 persons whose occupa¬ 
tions are enumerated, were engaged in employments requiring 
the use of the hand—they are the great grand army of manual 
workers, and of this number, as I have before stated, 125,331 
were engaged in the pursuit of agriculture. 
In 1860, there was not a single school in the entire state of 
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