The latest census gives the Negroes of Louisiana a majority of 798; Mississippi a majority of 197,708; and South Carolina a majority of 226,926. _What state is having the greatest increase of population?_ Arkansas. _What state has the greatest wealth among colored people?_ Louisiana. _How many Negroes on the island of Cuba?_ There are 480,000 Negroes on the island of Cuba. _What does Dr. Palmore, editor of the St. Louis Christian Advocate, say of the Negro as a race?_ He says: "Possibly no race that God has created has made such rapid progress in the same length of time as the Negro. As a rule, they should not be judged by the criminals among them who have become conspicuous in the newspapers for their evil deeds, but they should be judged from the honest, hard-working men and women, who, beginning with nothing, have in the course of one generation accumulated over $650,000,000 worth of real and personal property." _How many Negroes in the 55th Congress of the United States?_ Only one--Hon. George H. White, of North Carolina. _How many colored people own their own homes in this country?_ According to the census of 1890, there were 234,747 homes and farms, free from all incumbrance, owned by Negroes; and since that time the number has probably doubled. _How many books have been written by Afro-Americans?_ More than 300 books written by Negro men and women have been published, while probably not more than fifty have had an extensive circulation. The "Afro-American Encyclopedia" has had the largest sale. _How many newspapers are edited and published by Afro-Americans?_ Over 400. _Name one of the leading papers in each of the several states._ The "Colored American," Washington, D. C.; the "Age," New York, N. Y.; the "Freeman," Indianapolis, Ind.; the "Gazette," Cleveland, O.; the "Courant," Boston, Mass.; the "Planet," Richmond, Va.; the "Gazette," Huntsville, Ala.; the "Southern Age," Atlanta, Ga.; the "Progress," Helena, Ark.; the "Elevator," San Francisco, Cal.; the "Statesman," Denver, Colo.; the "Sentinel," Pensacola, Fla.; the "Appeal," Chicago, Ill.; the "Herald," Leavenworth, Kans.; the "Standard," Lexington, Ky.; the "Afro-American," Baltimore, Md.; the "Enquirer," Charleston, S. C.; the "Woman's Messenger," Memphis, Tenn.; the "Republican," New Orleans, La.; the "American Citizen," Kansas City, Mo.; the "Progress," Omaha, Neb.; the "Gazette," Raleigh, N. C.; the "Tribune," Philadelphia, Pa.; the "Freeman," Houston, Tex.; the "People's Defender," Jackson, Miss. _By whom were Negroes first called contrabands?_ By Gen. B. F. Butler, on the 22d of May, 1861, at Newport News, Va. _When did Hon. Frederick Douglass die?_ On the 20th of February, 1895, at seven o'clock p.m., at his home in Washington, D. C. _Who is the greatest poet of the race?_ Paul Lawrence Dunbar. _Whose blood was the first spilled in revolution?_ Crispus Attucks, a Negro, was the first to lay down his life in the defense of his country.