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Show RAPID GROWTH OF MOSCOW. Russian City Will Soon Rank With the Largest In Europe. Tho population of Moscow shows u Tcmaikubly laplil Increase. Within tliu comparatively slioit period of 30 years tho numbor of Inhabitants has Just about doubled. At tho tlmo of tho French invasion in 1812 tho urban Muscovites numbered about 300,000, although the olllclal returns woro 252,- '000. In 1871 tho olllclal census giiv-a tho population as 602,000, In 18S2 It was 708,000, nnd according to tho reckoning now completed tliu historic capital contains 1,173,500 Inhabitants, thus taking tho tenth place among tho most populous cities of tho world. Moscow covers an area of 101 squaro -kilometers, or only two kilometers less than thnt of St. Petersburg, Area Is not, however, by any means n general criterion, in questions of population, as nppearB from tho fact that whereas Loudon, with tho Iargost population of any city In tho world, covorn 303 square kilometers, Now York, with n population numbering moro than a million less than that of tho British metropolis, has a total area of 795 equnro kilometers. The population of Moscow is less dense than thoso of St. Petersburg, Glasgow, Loudon, Der-lln Der-lln and Paris. |