The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1879-02-27
Hints from the Worlds Statistics.

Some interesting statistical points may be
cleaned from the pages Of that invaluable
cosmic compendium, the Stotesman's Year
Book, Of which the number for 1879 has come
to hand. In population the Empire OF Rus
sia rises to se,2s6, 13s, Of which but eight
millions are in her European possessions.
This is some six milliens more than is con-
coded to Russia in Europe by Benin and
Wagner's work on 'Bevokerung der Erde, !"
printed year or two ago. Great Britain,
with her dependencies in the East musters .
population of 2s5, $50, 900, Of which the cen
trail nucleus Of intelligence and wealth that
rules the mass, the United Klndom, contains
81, s17, 10s. The German Empire has now a
population of AZ, $3.50, Of which Prussia
contains "a. IA, 404, while her Gallo foe con-
tains within France proper 36,505, 1888, and
with Algeria and dependencies 1887, 40.
China, whose population recent authority
has estimated as low as 125,0O0,000. is given
a population OF 425, 212, 152, the exact figure
In this case having flavor OF humor, as no
accurate census Of China is extant. In the
familiar classification Of population to the
square mile Belgium keeps her place at the
head, with 469; England and Wales are Sec
ond with $3.50, Italy third with 23s, and ia
pan fourth with 200 and total population
Of 81, 49,, 1897. The dissected Turkey OF 1878
has population Of q, 100000 in both Eu-
rope and Asia, OF which only 4,275,000 are
in Europe, while Greece, now making Eu-
rope ring with her complaints, has popu-
luton OF only 1,457 1854, or about 200, 000:less
than Servia,
The country of greatest fecundity is Ser
via, with forty-six and six-tenths births to
every thousand Of population. Austria-Hun-
gary stands second, with 42.s, as cores
ponding figures, and Germany third, with
40.S. Economical France is lowest on the
list with 1858. In sanitary quality Ireland
ranks first, with seventeen and eight.teDths
deaths each year to each thousand OF her
people. Rugged Norway is second with 10.
/, and tho most unhealthy country is Aus
tria Hungary with 1876 deaths. Discouraged
seekers Of matrimony should 'go to Switzer-
land. where there are twenty-three and two
tenths marriages to every thousand of pop
ulation each year, and they who would resist
connubial enticemsnts will do SO most sue
cessfully in Ireland, where the parallel fig
ures are 12.1.
We must make one more comparison that
is cherries and humiliating. In the list OF
mercantile navies of the world Great Britain
shows tonnage Of 6,39e,s69, while the
United States come second with tonnage
Of 1885, 1888. But out Of England's tom
mage 1885, $50, or $50, 377 more than all our
tonnage put together, was engaged exclu-
sively in foreign trade, while the figures for
the United States are only 1858, 705. OF
American steamships engaged in foreign
trade the proportion is trivial fraction,
while England has steam tonnage Of
1927, AL engaged in trade with sister ma
tions. Beyond these comparisons one need
not look to find the nation that does the
ocean carrying trade of the world, and one
which will do it hereafter unless our tariff
is liberalizsd, our navigation laws repealed
and our Roaches-in their Congressional ca
nacitv-extermipated