The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-01-27
rorcicu statistics and Gossip.

Official returns still show that wolves eX-
ist IN large numbers In France. Last year
the number that were killed by persons
who received the State awards amounted
TO .92j. The amount annually voted Tor
these awards and for other expenses AZ
tcndant on the State campaign against the
beasts Is 150.00Oi.
King Theebaw, having recently heard
reports which threatened the stabiiity OIL
his tenure OF Office, Is said 10 have taken
the news very ph!losophicaily. lie De-
licyes in his fate, and II any one else u
fated 90 be King in his stead he says ne
would Willingly resign and enter the priest
hood. lie understands that II Is ms Own
fate 10 be King for five years. -Four OF
these years are nearly over now.
During some excavations few weeks
AFRO for a new system OF drainage ut Brent
| ford. England, large number OF old horse
shoes were found some eight feet below
the surface. Local antiquarinns believe
they are the shoes that were worn by ca
yalry horses mt the battle Of Brentford,
fought in l642 between King Charles i.
and the Parliamentary forces. Some OF
the shoes were completely eaten through
with rust, and surrounded with calcarious
matter. which suggests the presence OF de-
cayed bones.
OF late years there has been large increase
in attendance at the German universities.
From 1918 students I'm 1872 the number
has advanced to 23,SS4 in 1882, or an in-
crease Of 57.6 per cent. Some alarm has
been caused by thiS showing, as il is de-
MED that the demand of modern life for
men of education has increased in like
proportion. An official warning has been
promulgated against students taking up
the law MS a profession since lis ranks are
already "hopelessly overcrowded."
Some one has called attention to the re-
markable fact that, within at least two centu-
res, no French statesman having reached so
high q position as Gambetta died so young.
RObcspierre, however, must be excepted,
though il Is added that Robespierre "Was
only by usurpation supreme ruler OF
France NJ. Casimir Pcrier, who was
Prime Minister in 1882, died ut 40, and this
il the only instance nearly approaching
that of Gambetta. who died at II. When
NJ. Gambetta became Minister of the Int
rior. in 1870, he was the northumberland
sixth politician who had filled that office
since 1889.
The populations of the principal civilized
countries OF the world, according to the
most recent census for each. returns for
but few OF them being older than 1879, are
Us follows, with the percentages OF annual
increase appended: France. 1921, 1856,
O.22; Prussia, 20,2T9,11l, L.23; SaxOny.
2,972,6 0j, 1.54; Bavaria, 5,2Si,77S, 1.Of;
Austria, 22,14i,2H. 0.7S; Hungary, b.
72j,7l0, O.13; Belgium, 5,j3G,G54, OBS;
Holland, 4.0l2,603, 1924; Switzerland,
2,S46, 1O2, 0.66; Sweden, 4,565.GGS. 0.95 I;
Norway, 1,S7s,100, 0.6O; Spain, 1G,625,-
$50, O.66; Italy, 2S,437,00l, 0.76; Rus
sia in Europe, 63.626,J90, 1872; England
and Wales, 25,96s, 2Se, 1.43; Scotland,
3,73i,37O, III; Ireland, 5,l59,S39, 0.47 {;
United States, 50.155, 1853. 900. Russia in
Europe is the only country, it will be seen,
in this iisSthat surpasscs the United States
in the number of its inhabitants, while the
nearest approach that is made to the United
States i'm the matter Of increase is SaXony,
which shows percentage of l.54 as against
ours OF 2.96, or only about one half as
great percentage.