rowed $500,905,414. The balance of the municipal receipts, amounting to $135,395,502, was made up of refunds, investments disposed of by city funds and general transfers, The total municipal receipts, therefore, amounted to $1,288,635,496, and were made up of the following items: 37.2 per cent from taxes and other general revenues; 4 per cent from special assessments; 5.4 per cent from services performed by city departments; 38.9 per cent from loans, and 14.5 per cent from refunds, general transfers and miscellaneous sources. Receipts from the general property tax formed the chief item of general revenue, and for the cities of Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Iowa, Louisiana, Virginia and Georgia comprised more than 75 per cent of the total. Liquor licenses and taxes formed 13.4 per cent of the general revenues in the cities of Ohio and 10.2 per cent in the cities of California. New York City received $7,927,300; Chicago, $7,252,687, and Philadelphia, $1,969,459 from this source. The only other cities deriving more than $1,000,000 from liquor licenses were St. Louis, Boston, Cleveland, San Francisco and Cincinnati. From revenues of public service enterprises, such as water supply systems, toll bridges, etc., New York City realized $18,604,056; Chicago, $5,127,401, and Philadelphia, $4,368,213. The only cities of less than 300,000 inhabitants which received more than $1,000,000 from this source were Jersey City, Los Angeles and Seattle. Chicago derived $2,386,275 from privileges or taxes for the use of the public highways; New York City derived a trifle over one-half as much money from the same source. GROSS AND NET DEBT AT THE CLOSE OF THE CALENDAR YEAR 1907 OF CITIES OF OVER 100,000 POPULATION; ALSO ASSESSED VALUATION OF PROPERTY AND TAXES LEVIED. Figures for 1908--Advance Census Bureau figures for the calendar year 1908 show that at the close of 1908 the net debt of New York City was $684,000,000. This city had more than seven times the indebtedness of any other city and more than one-half of the total of the twenty-nine largest cities of the country. The per capita net debt of New York City was $157 74, and the only other cities having a per capita net indebtedness of over $100 were Cincinnati, $128 61; Boston, $119 48; Galveston, Of the 486,000 working women in Japan 426,000 are engaged in factories and 60,000 are professional and business women. $118 07; Portland, Me., $107 41; Newton, Mass., $106 18; Pueblo, Col., $104 61, and Pawtucket, R. I., $108 78. Of the cities of over 300,000 estimated population the city having the smallest per capita net debt was Detroit, $26 02. Of the cities having a population of from 100,000 to 800,000 those with the smallest per capita net debt were Indianapolis, $17 48, and Scranton, $19 82. The only cities of over 100,000 population reducing their net debt in 1908 were Washington, D. C.; Kansas City, Mo.; Paterson, N. J., and Cambridge, Mass. ELECTRIC LIGHT AND POWER WORKS, AND GAS WORKS, OWNED AND OPERATED BY CITIES, 1907. Four plants in operation: One built in 1890, one built in 1894, one built in 1899 and one built in 1904. Three plants; year of building not reported. 2Built by city. "Not reported. "Two plants: One built in 1896 and one built in 1900. "Four plants: One at waterworks, built in 1901; one at City Hall, built in 1903; one at city hospital, built in 1905, and one at insane asylum, date not given. "Estimated. Two plants: One built in 1890 and one built in 1907. 'Plant in course of construction. In 1909 374,154 planos and 65,335 organs, to the value of $89,790,000, were manufactured in the United States. MORTALITY STATISTICS. The Federal Census Bureau began to collect mortality statistics in 1879-'80 for the census of 1880. Similar statistics were collected for the censuses of 1890 and 1900, and since 1900 they have been collected annually. The figures cover only what is known as the registration area of the United States, which embraces those states and separate cities accepted as having approximately complete registration of deaths based upon the requirement of compulsory burial permits. The states having such registration in 1910 were California, Colorado, Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina (in part), Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont, Washington and Wisconsin. These states, with the District of Columbia and 43 cities in non-registration states, make up the aggregate registration area, whose total estimated population in 1910 was 53,843,896, or 58.3 per cent. of the total estimated population of continental United States. The deaths in that area in 1910 were 805,412, or 15 per 1,000 of population. 4 Non-registration state. Figures for deaths not available for the entire period 1900-1909. 5 Includes only municipalities having a population of 1,000 or over in 1900. DEATH RATE OF AMERICAN CITIES, 1906 TO 1910. The following table shows the death rate for various American cities from 1906 to 1910 and the average rate from 1900 to 1909. There were 1,296 establishments engaged in the manufacture of gas, illuminat ing and heating, in the United States in 1909. 1 Exclusive of stillbirths. 2 Figures for deaths not available for the entire period 1900-1909. Includes Allegheny. PERCENTAGE OF DEATHS IN THE REGISTRATION AREA IN 1910 FROM THE CHIEF CAUSES OF MORTALITY. The second largest city in the Netherlands is Rotterdam, which in 1910 had a population of 417,780. DEATHS IN REGISTRATION AREA, 1909 AND 1910, BY SEX AND AGE PERIODS. The following table shows the number of deaths, exclusive of still births, in the registration area in 1909 and 1910, according to sex and different age periods: London Glasgow Dublin (city) 18.5 16.1 21.2 | 19.5 28.9 24.9 Sydney Montreal Toronto Paris 19.2 18.0 17.4 26.5 22.4 Hamburg 25.2 25.8 Dresden The first book printed in Rhode Island was printed in 1729 by James Franklin, elder 20.9 19.7 18.8 14.0 13.8 14.0 12.7 33.0 15.3 15.2 21.9 17.5 28.3 brother of Benjamin Franklin, |