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Show Oun immigration statistics are not less interesting for their exhibition ol tho marvelous growth of tho country in population, wealth and power, than for showing how shifting and uncertain our Americanism is, and far off is the time when it will have hardened into its ultimate national character. Over fifteen million immigrants ,have come to our shores since the foundation of the government in 1789, so that the immigration has been more than three times as great as the population wo at the beginning; for every soul In the country 100 years ago, three foreigners have come to It. The thrones of the Old Worl5 are not in a very promising condition. They have boon reported as in the following fol-lowing condition: The king of Spain Is ntill a baby; the queen of Holland is no more tunu a school girl; tho emperor of Austria has, owing to the death ol ..rrtncq Rudolptupo or to nUMaihranc;. " Emperor William of Germany would 11 he passed away leave nobody as hit successor to bo Kriegs Ilerr, or win lord, except a boy of 8. Tho ezarowiu of Russia is 22, but ho is unmarried, and the Prince of Naples, heir to the Italian throne, is also childless. |