DEATH OF MR. MULHALL, THE EMINENT STATISTICIAN.
Mk. Michael G. Mulhall, the eminent Catholic statistician and journalist, died at his residence Killiney, Dublin, on Deoember 13. It is very strange that we have had to wait for the Home papers to hear of the death of Mr. Mulhall, whose fame was worldwide, whilst the demise of titled nonenties is cabled to the colonies every other day. Mr. Mulhall was born in Rosscommontown County Roßscommon, Ireland, in 1836, and was educated at the Irish College in Rome. For many years he lived in the Argentine Republic, whe.re he was engaged in journalism. The Buenos Aires Standard, the first English daily paper printed in South America, was founded in 18.~1 by Mr. Mulhall. He afterwards re. turned to Ireland. Since 1880 he oontributfd articles on ecientifio and statistical subjeots to various Irish, American, and English magazines and newspapers. Mulhall's first important work published in 1880, was entitled The Progresx of the World, m* greatest work, the Dictionary of Statistics, was published in 1886 and has gone through many editions. It is regarded as the best work on tbe subject published. One of Mr. Mulhall's latest works was a paper on the progress of the Catholic Church in the last half of the nineteenth century, which was read at the recent Catholic Congress in Australia. He made a remarkable prediction about the United States census. Writing in the Xorth American Review last July he said tbat the figures would be 76,200,000, a ' Statistical Abstract ' having forecahted it at 77,500,000. The result of the actual count has been 76.2.«,000, only a trifle, comparatively, above Mr Mulhall s estimate. '
The McCormick Harvesting Machine Company built and sold 213,629 machines in the season of 1899. Thia in the greatest sale of harvesting machines ever made by one company. m * A little wonder is the Broadcast Patent Seed-sower sold by Morrow, Bassett, and Co. For sowing turnip, rape, grass and clover seed it has no equal, while for oate, wheat, and barley you have only to see it to know its value. A boy can work it. Sow four acres per hour, and any quantity up to six bushela per acre. Price only
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIX, Issue 5, 31 January 1901, Page 29
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367DEATH OF MR. MULHALL, THE EMINENT STATISTICIAN. New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIX, Issue 5, 31 January 1901, Page 29
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