The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1880-10-24
The distinguished German geographic

THE distinguished German geographers,
Benin & Wagner whose work published Mt Intervals
Is everywhere accepted the highest authority on
the subject have lately given to the public the latest
and most trustworthy statistics OF the population OF
the earth. According to them the world is being
peopled ut the rate OF million month. The total
population of the gobc Is now put at ,i55 923 o0o
or ID, 77s, 900 greater than 1t nineteen months
ago, when the authors issued another publication.
ASIA which has considerably more than half of the
people OF the earth Is reported TO have population
Of s3i 707 600; Europe 3i5 920 900; Africa 205 679
| 600; America 90, 495, 500; Australia and Polynesia,
03l 600, and the Polar reglOnsthat Is, Greenland
and lceland-S2 600. or the principal countries OF
Europe Germany is credited with 49, 900, 900 inhabit
and; Austria and Hungary IS, 900, 900; France, 49,
600, 900; Great Britain, a. 5Oo Ooo and the entire
Russian dominions about 49, Ooo 900, of which nearly
&c. 000 600 are In Russia proper. European Turkey
has s. $780, 600 people and Asiatic Turkey 49, 800 0O0
OF Asia's population China with oil ts dependencies
reported to have i5l 620 0oo Japan. a. $685. 900 and
British India 2iO. 2ss OoO The United States contains
more than half OF the American population British
North America has g. $780, 900, Mexico, o. 1885, 900, and
Brazil the most populous Of the South American
countries, H. lOO 900. The figures given In the work
have been taken from census and other ocal reports
wherever they could be obtained, but, OF course
estimates only could be given In the Of parts OF
| Africa and ASIA and some other regions. But the
| estimates nave naub Will care am SKILL
afford the latest and best Information to DO had on tho
| subject
THR morganatic marriage of the Car OF
Russia and the Princess Dolgoronk, though for some
time ANTICIPATED, has followed hard upon tile Czarlna
death. The Princess has been Alexandcr's mistress
for twelve years and is the mother OF several OF his
| children. His love for her has been for years. ac-
corng to all accounts the absorbing emotion OF his
| loved her paSslOnately than
IDENTIFY but when love burns In the heart Of an En-
peror near sxtythree years old prudence Is not to t
expected. recent publication gives the following
Interesting accounts OF some notable mOrganatic mar
| riages'
MorganatIc marriages have for centuries been mad
by German princes, and as the ROmanoHs are Ger
man by blood 1t Is natural enough that their presen
head should follow his ancestral custom. Neither tn
wife the children entitled, usually, In unol
OF this kind to share the rank or possessions OF TIN
husband, the dowry bciug considered requital fo
One OF the most noted OF such alliances that o
Frederick William Ill of Russia with the Counties
ding, was made princess of Liegnitz. Out of til
usage has gradually arisen code Of matrimonial ay
by which the union Of princes with members s.. q
has been attended with very serious consequences
!, mainly to the women. The lovely and unhapp
Agnes Bernauer, whom Duke Albreoht OF Bavaria ha
espoused, savagely put to death, In the fteent
century, during the absence OF her lord, on charg
OF having bewtched him. In the sixteenth and sew
enteenth centuries the German princes were In Til
habit OF taking morganatic wife in addition to
regular wife, Landgrave Philip OF Hesse set the ex
| ample though not without the disapproval of til
+ leading reformers. During the past century Anto
Ulrich Duke of Sake -Meningen tried hard to depai
from the established rule In effort to obtain for hi
mOrganatc wife the title of duchess, and for he
| children the right Of succession. Tho Emperor, sus
tained by the highest nobility Of the realm. refuse
his suit, declaring that there could be complet
marriage In princely families except between person
of equal birth. Morganatic marriages have not de
creased In Germany during the last sixty sevent
o years. One Of the most remarkable Instances wa
;, | the marriage Of the daughter Of the postmaster
Anssee, tStyria,) afterward created Countess
Meran, to the late Archduke John These left hande
connections are recognized and tolerated among III
higher arsocracy not less than among princely lines
In Prussia, even the Inferior gentry may and ofte
n do, contract them. 1herese Elsser who visited t
country well-nigh forty years ago, dancing tou
I | with her then renowned sister, Fanny was morgan
aticay married ten years later to Prince Adalbert
o Prussia and ennObled M Frau Won Barnenl. n
q Roman and the Greek Churches have virtually sat
toned morganatic marriages, which are palpaby NJ
Just to women, to true d0mesticity, and to the bc
v Interests OF morality.