There are less than 60,000 French, about 800,000 Russians, and 1,300,000 Germans.
Of the English, sixty per cent are naturalized American citizens; of the Irish, about sixty-nine per cent; of the French, fifty per cent, and of the Russians, twenty-six per cent.
Of the Germans, about seventy per cent are naturalized Americans, showing a more marked and more permanent absorption into the life of their adopted country than is the case with the other nationalities.
Woman Ventriloquist’s Joke.
Miss Elaine Thompson, of Maplewood, N. J., is an amateur ventriloquist. Yesterday, on a street car, she frightened two Newark women into a faint by making a noise like a dog yelping under the car. The lines were blockaded and the car jacked up before it was discovered that Miss Thompson was just having a little joke.
Minister Upholds Fox Trot.
Fox trotting and other modern dances are proper amusement for young people, according to Reverend Allen A. Stockdale, pastor of the First Congregational Church, a meeting place for many of Toledo’s wealthiest families.
The assertion of the pastor came in response to the question if dancing had been indulged in at the church. Doctor Stockdale admitted that members of the church had danced.
Fish Schools Choke Harbor.
The city of Prince Rupert, B. C., Pacific coast terminal of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, has once more witnessed the yearly recurring phenomenon of having its large harbor so densely packed with huge schools of herring as to make the progress of rowboats a difficult matter. This year’s schools were exceptionally large, and so dense that the immense body of fish seemed like one solid moving mass. Men and boys on the G. T. P. docks hauled in literally millions of these fish in buckets, wire waste-paper baskets, and almost any utensil that was handy.