The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . ted of the proceeds from: the sale-of a townshipof land given to the state by Congress. The^tatepays six per cent interest on this, and the income,in .1901 was $46,;!43,, including all charges from!tuition, etc. In 1894, Congress granted another-township of land. There-are 12 university build-ings and a library containing j8,000 volumes. is open to both women; .threecourses of study being, offered to them^ arts,science, and philosophy. In 190T there were26ostudents and 21 instructors
The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . ted of the proceeds from: the sale-of a townshipof land given to the state by Congress. The^tatepays six per cent interest on this, and the income,in .1901 was $46,;!43,, including all charges from!tuition, etc. In 1894, Congress granted another-township of land. There-are 12 university build-ings and a library containing j8,000 volumes. is open to both women; .threecourses of study being, offered to them^ arts,science, and philosophy. In 190T there were26ostudents and 21 instructors. MISSISSIPPI SCHEME. .See Fkange, Vol. IX,p. 584. MISSOULA, a city, and important lumber andranching center, and the capital of Missoula County,northwestern Montana, 95 miles of Butte, onthe Missoula River, and on the Northern Pacific rail-road. Population 1890, 3,426; 1900, 4,366. MISSOURI, according to the latest correctedsurveys, has an area of 69,415 square miles, of which680 square miles are water surface. The area is al-most twenty thousand square miles greater than that. of the state of New York, greater than all of theNew England states, with Delaware added, and al-most exactly as that t)f ihestate of Washi^ SEAL OF THE OF ingtonr The population in -1890 was 2,679,184;by the 12th census (19Q0) 3,106,665. Ofthe inhhbitants ofthe state, 703,743 lived inthe eight cities, per cent oithe entire population: Tlie males numbi?redi,-385,:238; the females,- 1,293,946. The num-ber of people to the square mile was ; thepercentage of native-born citizens was ; of for-eign-born, ; the number of negroes, 150,184,—a decrease of 4,834 since 1880. Missouri retainedthe same relative rank among the states, in the mat-ter of population, at the time of the eleventh de-cennial census that was held at the time of thetenth,—that of fifth. The state stands high in the production of thecereals, as will be shown by the
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