officials in charge of the climate and crop service of their respective States, the central stations of which are as follows: Montgomery. Ala.; Phoenix, Ariz.; Little Rock, Ark.; San Francisco, Cal.; Denver, Col.; Jacksonville, Fla.; Atlanta, Ga.; Boise, Idaho; Springfield, Ill.; Indianapolis, Ind.; Des Moines, Iowa; Topeka, Kan.; Louisville, Ky.; New-Orleans, La.; Baltimore, Md. (for Delaware and Maryland); Boston, Mass. (for New-England); Grand Rapids. Mich.; Minneapolis, Minn.; Vicksburg, Miss.; Columbia, Mo.; Helena, Mont.; Lincoln, Neb.; Carson City, Nev.; Atlantic City, N. J.; Santa Fe, N. M.; Ithaca, N. Y.; Raleigh, N. C.; Bismarck, N. D.; Columbus, Ohio; Oklahoma, Okla. (for Oklahoma and Indian Territories); Portland, Ore.; Philadelphia, Penn.: Columbia, S. C.; Huron, S. D. Nashville, Tenn.; Galveston, Tex.; Salt Lake City, Utah; Richmond, Va.; Seattle, Wash.; Parkersburg, W. Va.; Milwaukee, Wis.; Cheyenne, Wyo. There are also storm and hurricane warnings, the combinations being made with a white triangular flag, a red triangular flag and a square red flag with a black square in the centre. The combinations follow: Storm warnings. Hurricane warning. (Flags with light lines red, squares in the centre black.) Storm warning-A red flag with a black centre indicates that a storm of marked violence is expected. The pennants displayed with the flags indicate the direction of the wind-red, easterly (from northeast to south); white, westerly (from southwest to north). The pennant above the flag indicates that the wind is expected to blow from the northerly quadrants; below, from the southerly quadrants. By night a red light indicates casterly winds, and a white above a red light, westerly winds. Hurricane warning-Two red flags with black centres displayed one above the other indicate the expected approach of a tropical hurricane, or one of those extremely severe and dangerous storms which occasionally move across the lakes and Northern Atlantic Coast. No night hurricane warnings are displayed. RAINFALL AND TEMPERATURE IN THE UNITED STATES. 2 Prepared by United States Weather Bureau. The letters at the head of each column indicate as follows: "M. A. R.," mean annual rainfall (including snow melted), in inches. "M. A. T.," mean annual temperature. "H. R. T.," highest recorded temlowest recorded temperature at the station. perature at the station. "L. R. T.," United States 176,303,387 39,059,242 37,244,145 65,843,302 10,460,085 466,099,788) 48,840,789 This total includes population enumerated by the Census Office as follows: Continental United States, 75,994,575; Alaska, 63,592; Hawaii, 154,001; military and naval, 91,219. The population for the entire United States is 84,233,069, the totals for the insular dependencies being: Philippines, 6,961,339; Porto Rico, 953,243; Guam, 9,000; Samoa, 6,100. 20f these 10,250,063 are whites and 210,022 colored, including Chinese, Japanese, etc. In addition to the negro population there are in the United States classified as colored 119,050 Chinese, 85,988 Japanese, 137,242 Indians taxed, 129, 518 Indians not taxed. These totals include 84,209 whites and 6,394 negroes in the military and naval service. Of the native born, 33,329,130 are males and 32,514,172 females; of the foreign born, 5,730,112 are males and 4,729,973 females; of the total white, 34,349,021 are males and 32,641,781 females; of the native white, 28, 803, 188 are males and 27,937,551 females; of the native white of native parents, 20,934,099 are males and 20,119.318 females; of the native white of foreign parents, 7,869,089 are males and 7,818,233 females; of the foreign white, 5,545,833 are males and 4,704,230 females; of the total colored, 4,710,221 are males and 4,602,364 females; of the negroes, 4,393, 221 are males and 4,447,568 females; of the Chinese, 111,054 are males and 7,996 females; of the Japanese, 71,388 are males and 14,600 females; of the Indians, 134,560 are males and 132,200 females. States and Territories. Alabama Males, voting age. Negro. Native. or over. born. 181,471) 224,212 8,0821 Alaska 7,952 23,811 Arizona Arkansas California 44,830 25,678 Colorado 3,215 Connecticut Delaware D.of Col'mbia] Florida Hawaii 19,576 93 Indian Ter.. 287,647 444,067 25,139 262,954 Louisiana 560,962 107,797 177,878 106,2091 216,856 60,406 Massach'setts] Michigan 1,026,714 831,653 712.245 5,193 Minnesota Mississippi Missouri 54,890 39,983 11,675 Nevada 14.6520 556,2941 532,759 New-Mexico 149,029 No. Carolina. 1,250,811 8,398 289,263 127,114 Pennsylvania | 3,729,093 1,430,028 1,763.482) 51,668 144.986) 140,292 124,001 2,765 540,766 11,670 130,375] 152,860 127,396 136, 1911 156,194 1,481,636 48.873 Wisconsin 585,903 Totals 141,053,417,115,687,322 19,036.143) 22,065, 989314,103,613 $4,932,524)*6,246,857 These totals include 48,643 of native parentage and 20,867 of whole or partial foreign parentage in the military or naval service. 2These totals include 71,917 whites and 5,453 negroes in the military and naval services. These totals include 58,315 natives and 13,602 foreign born in the military and naval services. This total includes 1,137 illiterates in the military and naval services. One or both. POPULATION OF CITIES OF 25,000 OR MORE. The following statistics, prepared under the direction of William C. Hiunt, chief statistician for population of the Census Bureau, give the population of the 159 cities having 25,000 inhabitants or more in 1900, according to the official count of the returns of the Twelfth Census, taken as of June 1. 1900. The 159 cities combined have a population in 1900 of 19,694,625, as compared with a population for the same cities of 14,855,489 in 1890, and of 9,933,927 in 1880. The absolute increase in the population of these cities from 1890 to 1900 was 4.839,136, or 82,426 less than the absolute increase from 1880 to 1890, when it was 4,921,562. The percentage of increase in population of the 159 cities from 1890 to 1900 was 32.5, as against 49.5 from 1880 to 1890. In 1880 there were but twenty cities which contained more than 100,000 inhabitants. but in 1890 this number had increased to twenty-eight, and in 1900 to thirty-eight. In 1900 there are seventy-eight cities of 50,000 inhabitants or more as compared with fifty-eight in 1890 and thirty-five in 1880. The combined population in 1900 of the nineteen cities of the first class (above 200,000) is 11,795,809, as against a population in 1890 of 8,879,105, representing an increase during the ten years of 2,916,704, or 32.8 per cent. The same cities showed an increase from 1880 to 1890 of 2,567,452, or 40.6 per cent. The nineteen cities of the second class (between 100,000 and 200,000) have a combined population in 1900 of 2,412.538, and show an increase of 33.3 per cent from 1890 to 1900, as against an increase of 79.2 per cent from 1880 to 1890. The forty cities of the third class (between 50,000 and 100,000) have a combined population in 1900 of 2,709,338, as against a population in 1890 of 2,067,169, which is equivalent to an increase during the decade of 31 per cent, as compared with an increase of 51 per cent during the preceding ten years. The eighty-one cities of the fourth class (between 25,000 and 50,000) have a combined population in 1900 of 2,776,940, having gained since 1890 676,381 in number, or 32.2 per cent, as against an increase of 68.7 per cent from 1880 to 1890. Population. 1900. 1890. cent. St. Louis, Mo.... Boston, Mass.. 560,892 575,238 451,770 27.3 Manchester, N. H. Baltimore, Md.... 508,957 434,439 25.0 Utica, N. Y..... Cleveland, Ohio... 381,768 285,704 Milwaukee, Wis... 285,315 Washington, D. C. 278,718 Newark, N. J.... 246,070 261,353 46.0 Charleston, S. C.. 352,387 255,664 37.8 Savannah, Ga.... 342,782 298,997 14.6 Salt Lake City, U. 325,902 296,908 9.7 San Antonio, Tex. 321,616 238,617 34.7 Duluth, Minn..... 287,104 242,039 18.6 Erie, Penn.. 205,876 38.7 Elizabeth, N. J... 204,468 39.5 Wilkesbarre, Penn 230,392 20.9 Kansas City, Kan 181,830 35.3 Harrisburg, Penn. 55,807 54,955 1.5 Jersey City, N. J. Louisville, Ky. 204,731 Minneapolis, Minn 202,718 Providence, R. I.. 175,597 Indianapolis, Ind.. 169,164 Kansas City, Mo.. 163,752 St. Paul, Minn. 163,065 Rochester, N. Y... 162,608 105,436 60.4 Holyoke, Mass.. 45,712 35,637 28.2 45,115 35,393 27.4 Denver, Col.... 133,859 106,713 25.4 Covington, Ky.. Toledo, Ohio.. 61.8 Akron, Ohio.. Allegheny, Penn.. 23.3 Dallas, Tex.... Columbus, Ohio... 42,345 46,322 18.5 Worcester, Mass.. 118,421 Syracuse, N. Y... 108,374) New-Haven, Conn. 108,027 81,298 32.8 Brockton, Mass... 40,063 27,294 46.7 Paterson, N. J.... 105,171 Fall River, Mass.. 104,863 St. Joseph, Mo... 102,979 Omaha, Neb.. 102,555 78,347 34.2 Binghamton, N. Y 74,398 40.9 Augusta, Ga.... 52,324 96.8 Pawtucket, R. I.. 140,452126.9 Altoona, Penn.. Los Angeles, Cal.. 102,479 Memphis, Tenn... 102,320 50,395 103.3 Wheeling, W. Va. Ala.... 38,469 31,076 23.7 Scranton, Penn... Lowell, Mass... 102,026 75.215 35.6 Birmingham, Ala. 38,415 26,178 46.7 Portland, Ore.... 90.426 Atlanta, Ga... Grand Rapids, M'h Dayton, Ohio.. Lawrence, Mass.. 66,960 46,385 94.9 Tacoma, Wash.. 6.1 Quincy, Ill.. 24.5 Elmira, N. Y.... New-Bedford, Mass 62,442 40,733 [3.2 York, Penn. Somerville, Mass... 61,643 40,152 53.5 Newton, Mass.. |