+----------------------+-----------++----------------------+-----------+ | Years. Individuals. | Percents || Years. Individuals. | Percents | | | in Cities.|| | in Cities.| +----------------------+-----------++----------------------+-----------+ | 1790 3,929,214 | 3.35 || 1850 23,191,897 | 12.49 | | 1800 5,308,463 | 3.97 || 1860 31,443,321 | 16.13 | | 1810 7,239,881 | 4.93 || 1870 38,588,371 | 20.93 | | 1820 9,633,822 | 4.93 || 1880 50,155,783 | 22.57 | | 1830 12,866,020 | 6.72 || 1890 62,622,250 | 29.20 | | 1840 17,069,453 | 8.52 || 1897 71,551,571 | [146] | +----------------------+-----------++----------------------+-----------+ The preceding table shows that, from 1891 to 1897 inclusively, the population of the United States increased by about 8,929,321 individuals, or, distributing this [SN: INCREASE OF POPULATION.] number over seven years, the increase will be 1,250,000 souls in each successive year. And the approximate proportions of this increase indicate that every year about 105,665 new families were reproduced by the 5,246,334 families that hire their homes; and about 31,698 by the 1,624,765 families that hire their farms, leaving out here the propertied. And the heritage of these 137,363 newly formed families under the conditions is to be homeless and landless subjects of dividogenesure, even as their unfortunate parents are. For scarcely any of them could acquire property and thus escape paying rent. If then we conclude that the one set of the newly born families consisted of the tenants of rentable [SN: RENT PAID FOR HOUSES.] homes, while the other of the tenants rentable farms, we must admit that they paid at least the same average rents for homes and farms as their parents did. Therefore, the first set per family paid $9.50 a month as follows: Table of the House Rent Paid. 105,665 families in 7 years paid $ 84,320,670 105,665 families in 6 years paid 72,274,860 105,665 families in 5 years paid 60,229,050 105,665 families in 4 years paid 48,183,240 105,665 families in 3 years paid 36,137,430 105,665 families in 2 years paid 24,091,620 105,665 families in 1 year paid 12,045,810 ------- ------------ 739,655 Total $337,282,680 Thus the homeless families of the year 1891 paid the largest amount of the house rents up to the [SN: RENT PAID FOR FARMS.] end of 1897. Meanwhile the other yearly additions of the new families paid less and less, on account of having been younger in age. The number of the increased families renting houses, then, was 739,655, and the total of the rent they paid was $337,282,680.