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Mrs. Jones : 'Do you know anything about' your j new neighbors yet ?' .".-.' Mrs. Smith : ' Lots.". .They ""had their waslJlng on' 5 the line yesterday.' - ,
Motorist (to Irish countryman, -who is driving an. ~ ass and cart) : ' Why haven't you a car like mine ?' Countryman : ' Bepausc 1 think t/he donkey's place , is between- the shafts," and not upon the seat.' -
The noble retL^rian is not fading ' away. The first actual census of the Indians was. taken seventy years ": ago. At that time,, t-here were found to be 25'3^464 -' Indians in the "United'S.tates. "Beginning with thecount '" of 1830 -the official reports of ' Indian population are as - follows: In 1860, at the- beginning -of the civil war ' •there were 254; 2U0. Twenty years later, in 1880, there - were 256,127. 'In 1900 there were 272,023.- To-day, by : count of the Indian agents on tlie reservations "of the" '" country, there are -284,000 Indians. "
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New Zealand Tablet, 13 December 1906, Page 38
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150ODDS AND ENDS New Zealand Tablet, 13 December 1906, Page 38
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