The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-05-11
Tlle French Census.

| Inc census returns in France SHOW
| That the population remains nearly sta
| tlOnary. Since 1876 there has been an
Increase of 389, $40, whereas during the
| proceeding five years there had been a
gain of 02,867, which was partly due
to the emigration of families from the
provinces annexed to Germany. For a
nation of 81, 100000 this is very low
| rate OF increase. and, inasmuch as the
| losses due to emigration are scarcely
worth mentioning, it can only be ac-
counted for by the birth-rate, which is
the smallest known in Europes Not
withstanding the heavy inroads of en-
igration to America and Australia.
equaling 100000 year, Great Britain.
with birth-rate of 81 per thousand, now
has a population of 35,246,5 ,562, an in
crease of 1889, ,224 during ten years:
and Germany, with a birth-rate. of 40
per thousand. has population of 49,
2lO,OO0, an increase of 4, 1876, 9O5 during
the same period. Austria-Hungary,
with a birth-rate of 43 per thousand
would have had an even larger in
crease if the death-rate, which was 20 in
Great Britain and 26 in Germany, had
not been 80 per thousand. In France the
death-rate is only 81, the. popular idea
that the Partisan dies young being fal-
laeious, for the Boulevards as well as
the streets of London have their octo-
genarians and centenarians, and 55 is
roughly computed in the cafes as the
average age in the Capital. But the
birth-rate is exceptionally low-26 per
thousand-so that the margin for natu-
raj increase is very small. An increase
OF 3S9, 679 in five years is an average gain
OF 77,344 a year with population of
81. .000.009. This is a lower. rate than
the inferences from the vital statistics
would have justified The next census
will show larger population in Great
Britain than in France
Another tendency revealed BY the
recent census is movement of population
from country to town. In 1876 the
proportion of urban to rural popula-
ton was 1850, ,724 to 24,945, ,O64, The
proportion will now run considerably
above 35 to 65, for the population of all
the agricultural departments has de-
clined, and there has been marked
increase in the towns and industrial
quarters, especially. in Paris, Lille,
Lyons, Marseilles, Havre and Rouen.
The Department of the Seine, or PARIS,
has added 337, 900 to its population since
1876. This is an annual increase of e.
400 us compared with 1884 for the
whole nation. That is to say, the Cap
ital, with less than a thirteenth of the
whole population of France absorbs
within 10000 Of the whole annual in
crease At this rate Paris seems des-
tined to remain the second city of
modern times, although France has been
already outstripped in aggregate popula-
ton by the United States, Germany and
Austria-Hungary, and will soon yield
the next place to Great Britain, which is
nearly on a level with, it. London, with
a population OF 4,764,313 within the
police districts) has the crowning posi-
ton; Paris with 2,747, 200 is. second;
New York with 1,942.000, with Brook
yn, Jersey City. Hoboken and Long
Island City added) is third; Berlin with
[, ,122, $50 fourth; Vienna with 1.103, S57 |
fifth and st. Petersburg, Moscow and |
yonstantinople, which exceeded GOO, 900 /
en years ago, vying with Philadelphia,
Calcutta and Bombay for the next place. /
Pekin being left out of account, mas
much as its population has never been
definitely ascertained. IN Y. San. .ig /