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Show Number of Bogs in Europe. The European dog census has been completed and shows France, with 2,-864,000 2,-864,000 dogs holding the European record. Not only are there more dogs in France than in any other country in Europe, but there are more per thousand inhabitants than in any other European country. France has 75 dogs to every thousand of its inhabitants. in-habitants. Then follow Ireland with 73, England with 38, Germany witU 31, and Sweden with 11. There are 2,200,000 dogs in Germany, 1,500,000 in Russia and 350,000 in Turkey, though tourists who have resided in Constantinople Constan-tinople aver that this number falls short of the actual total, which they think to be larger in Turkey than elsewhere. In France there is a dog tax and every dog is registered, a condition con-dition which makes the computation comparatively easy in that country. The number of dogs in the United States Is estimated at from 1,000,000 to 1,500,000. |