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Show French Race Dwindling. Great and manifold are the devices adopted by the rulers of France to arrest the dwindling of tbe populatloa. Fhe latest suggestion comes from the ileputy for Meurthe and Moselle, who proposes that certain employments un-Jer un-Jer government should be reserved for men who are fathers of three children It least The yearly statistics are disquieting dis-quieting enough, but when comparison jf past years Is applied they become rerily alarming lo 1851 France was n the second rank among the great powers In regard to population, while Mtr she only stands seventh. |