GOVERNMENT.-Capital, Prescott. Governor appointed by the President for four years. Salary, $2,600. Legislature composed of 12 Senators and 24 Representatives, all elected for two years. Salary of Legislators $4 per day and 20 cents mileage. Sessions held biennially on first Monday in January and limited to 60 days. Territorial elections held every two years and, with presidential election, on Tuesday after first Monday in November. The Supreme Court consists of a Chief Justice and two associates, appointed by the President for four years. Salary of judges, $3,000.

POLITICS-Vote for Delegate:

NAME-From the word Kansas, with the prefix of arc, a bow. The story runs that the name Arkansas was applied to a portion of the Kansas tribe of Indians who separated from the main stem, and were noted for the superiority of their bows. The word was spelled Arkansaw, in the act creating it a Territory, and the Legislature recently affirmed that as the pronunciation. Popular name, "The Bear State."

ADMISSION.-Organized as a Territory March 2, 1819. Act of admission, and actual admission, June 15, 1836.

AREA.-Square miles, 53,045; acres, 33,948,800; population to the square mile, 15.13.

EDUCATION.-Colleges, 5; Instructors, 35; Students, 709. Public schools, 2,768; value of school property, $273,302; teachers, 2,823; teachers' salaries (1882), $388,616; receipts for school purposes, $500,978; expended for same (1882), $503,857; school age, 6-21 years; school population (1882), 289,617; pupils enrolled (1882), 117,696; average attendance (1882), 56,291; average length of school session in 1880, 91 days.

Persons over ten years who cannot read, 153,229, or 28.8 per cent. of all persons over ten years of age.

Persons over ten years who cannot write: native white, 97,990; foreign white, 552; colored, Chinese and Indians, 103,473; 202,015, or 38 per cent. of all persons over ten years of age.

Daily papers; 6; others, 114; total, 120; circulation, 92,621. OCCUPATIONS.-Persons engaged in agriculture, 216,655; in professional and personal services, 23,466; in trade and transportation, 9,233; in manufacturing, mechanics and mining, II,338.

AGRICULTURE.-Number of farms, 94,433; total acres, 12,061,547; improved acres, 3,595,603; average size of farms, 128 acres; value of farms and buildings, $74,249,655; value of implements, $4,637,497; total value of all farm products sold, consumed or on hand, $43,796,261.

Total value of all live-stock on farms June 1, 1880.....

.$20,472,425

MANUFACTURES.-Number of establishments, 1,202; capital invested, $2,953,130; hands employed, 4,557; wages paid, $925,358; value of material, $4,392,080; value of products, $6,756,159.

The principal manufactures are:

Flour and grist-mill products..$2,249,289 | Oil and cotton-seed cake... . . 590,000 Lumber sawed...

1,793,848

Total steam and water-power in use, 15,733 horse-power.

MINING.-Quantity:

Coal, bituminous....

14,778 tons

Value. $33,535

COMMERCIAL FACILITIES.-Railroads in 1883, 1,020 miles of line; miles operated, 558; cost, $40,307,404; total investment, $40,046,318. Steam craft, 37; tonnage, 5,047; value, $227,400; barges and flats, 78; value, $6,600.

FINANCIAL CONDITION-Assessed value of real estate, Oct. 1, 1883, $75,000,000; personal property, $48,000,000; State taxation (1883), 70 cents on $100, $750,000; county taxation (1880), $734,974; township and municipal taxation, $388,878; State debt (1883), bonded, $2,454,000; floating, $2,689,000; total, $5,143,000; amount in sinking fund, $1,006,668; local and county indebtedness, $3,899,047.

GOVERNMENT.-Capital, Little Rock. Governor elected every two years. Salary, $3,500. The other officers, all elected for two years, are the Secretary of State, salary, $1,800; Attorney-General, $1,500; Treasurer, $2,250; Superintendent Public Instruction, $1,600; Auditor, $2,250; Land Commissioner, $1,800.

Legislature composed of 31 Senators and 94 Representatives. Senators elected for four years; Representatives for two years. Salary $6 a day. Legislature meets biennially on second Monday in January. Sessions limited to 60 days. State election held every two years on first Monday in September. Supreme Court consists of a Chief Justice and two Associate Justices, elected for eight years. Salary of each, $3,000. Representatives in Congress, 5; Presidential electors, 7. POLITICS for twelve years:

NAME-The name California originated in the imagination of one Garcia Ordonez de Montalvo, a Spaniard, and author of the romance called "Esplandian," published about 1510. In this work "California" is the name of an imaginary island "on the right hand of the Indies, very near to the Terrestrial Paradise, abounding in great treasures of gold." Cortes applied the word to the peninsula of Lower California in 1535. The romancer evidently conjured up the word from the Arabic Khalafa, our word caliph, successor. Popular name, "The Golden

State."

ADMISSION.-Act of admission and actual admission, September 9, 1850.

AREA.-Square miles, 155,980; acres, 99,827,200; persons to a square mile, 5.54.

POPULATION and rate of increase:

Dwellings..

Families

Voters-Males over 21.

..161,037
177,508
.329,392

1880 by Classes.

Males....518,176 Native....571,820 White....767,181 Chinese.
Females..346,518 Foreign...292,874 Black.... 6,018

Persons to a dwelling..

Natural militia, 18-44.

.75,218

Indians.... 16,277

5.37

.257,229