MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE.

A bulletin dealing with marriage and divorce statistics was issued by the Census Bureau early in 1909. It contained data covering the years from 1887 to 1906. The marriages in the United States reported for those years were as follows:

MARRIAGES EACH YEAR BY STATES AND TERRITORIES: 1887 TO 1906.

The total number of divorces returned by the investigation, covering the twenty years from 1887 to 1906, inclusive, was 945, 625. In the preceding investigation, covering the twenty years from 1867 to 1886, inclusive, the number reported was 328,716

Over 96,000 acres of public lands in Nevada and Utah, believed to be underlain by coal, were withdrawn from entry in March, 1911.

1887-||

DIVORCES BY STATES AND TERRITORIES: 1887 TO 1906.

State or Territory.

1906. 1906. 1905. 1904. 1903. 1902. 1901. 1900. 1899. 1898. Continental U. S. 1945,625||72,062 67,976 66,199 64,925 | 61,480 60,984155,751151,437 47,849 22,807|| 2,162] 1,925| 1,876 1,555 1,365 1,467 1,299 1,057) 1.133

Alabama

Arizona

Arkansas

California

Colorado

2,380|| 214 226 215 29.541 2,428 2,1921 2,390 25,170 1.813] 1.660] 716 1,165 1,101| 1,141 9,224|| 557 508

185 136 179] 158 142 122 2,107 2,041 2,288 1,810 1.511| 1.278 862 1,733 1,732 1,649 1,506] 1,411 1,176 1,073] 977 8021 743 663

15,844

Connecticut

476

5381 460 5091

450 4241 437

Delaware

887|| 51

78

661

Dist. of Columbia.

Florida

Georgia

10,401

862 765 694

Idaho

204 136 162

Illinois

'Indian Territory.

505 507 419 420| 358

Indiana

3,587| 3,276

1The act of May 2, 1890, creating the Territory of Oklahoma, gave the United States Court in Indian Territory jurisdiction over divorce; prior to that date there is no record of divorce. 2 Organized from part of Dakota Territory, November 2, 1889. Divorces granted in the counties then comprising Dakota Territory are distributed between North Dakota and South Dakota according as the counties are now located in one or the other of these states. Organized from part of Indian Territory, May 2, 1890. All laws permitting divorce were repealed in 1878.

MARRIAGE AVERAGES IN THE UNITED STATES. The following table shows the number of marriages per 10,000 unmarried adults and per 10,000 population in the United States in 1890 and 1900:

The gross receipts of the United States Steel Corporation from April 1, 1901, to Dec. 31, 1910, aggregated $5,818,243,724.

WORLD'S AVERAGES OF MARRIAGE.

The following table shows the average annual number of marriages in the leading countries of the world:

*For the United States the rate is based on the average annual number of marriages, 1888 to 1892 and 1898 to 1902; for Switzerland, for the earlier period on the average annual number, 1884 to 1893, and the census of 1888: for Canada, on the number reported in the year 1901; for Russia, on the average annual number, 1893 to 1902, and the census of 1897; for the Australian states, on the average annual number, 1900 to 1902.

The value of the bananas exported from Cuba to the United States in 1910 was $641,381, a gain of $106,716 over 1909.

1 For the five-year period of which the census year is the median year. 2 Organized from part of Indian Territory, May 2, 1890.

The act of May 2, 1890, creating the territory of Oklahoma gave the United States courts in Indian Territory jurisdiction over divorce; prior to that date there is no record of divorce.

4 Organized from part of Dakota territory, November 2, 1889. The divorces granted in the counties then comprising Dakota territory are distributed between North Dakota and South Dakota, according as the counties are now located in one or the other of these states,

All laws permitting divorce were repealed in 1878.

DIVORCE RATES FOR PRINCIPAL COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD.

The following table shows how the divorce rate in the United States compares with that in certain foreign countries. This comparison is affected slightly by the fact that the figures for foreign countries include, as a rule, only absolute divorces. while those for the United States include both absolute and limited divorces. This difference is, however, of almost no practical importance, for in the United States less than one divorce in one hundred is a limited divorce. If it is assumed that exactly one divorce in one hundred is a limited divorce the ratio of the United States would become 72 per 100,000 population, instead of 73, an immaterial difference.

Gross receipts of the United States Steel Corporation have ranged as high as

$757,014,767 in a single year.

1 For the five-year period of which the census year given is the median year. except for Bulgaria and Servia.

2 Average annual Inummber of divorces 1896-1900.

Annual average less than one. Only one divorce granted during the five-year period.

* Annulments included with divorces.

Legal separations.

• Exclusive of Maoris.

DIVORCES GRANTED IN THE UNITED STATES, 1867-1906.

The following table shows the number of divorces in the United States annually from 1867 to 1906 and the increase per year:

DIVORCES GRANTED TO HUSBANDS AND WIVES IN THE UNITED STATES.

Since 1909 the importations of potash salt into the United States have aggregated approximately $75,000,000 in value.