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Show Europe's Birth Eato. Nearly every country In Europo publisher pub-lisher a summary of the Information obtained ob-tained In tho census of i I h population, which Is taken every live or ten years. By studying tlu-se condensed reports, says tho New York Sun. Interesting comparisons com-parisons as to the growth of population may be obtained. For Instance, It Is found that in proportion pro-portion to population the birth rate Is larger In eantorn than in western Furopc. and in the southern than In the northern part of the continent. The birth rate Is more than twice as largo In Russia a3 it is In Franc. Tn Normandy and the southwestern part of France, where the birth rate is lowest, the births at times fall as low as 15 to the 1000 Inhabitants In a Jear. But in Rupsla thero are many districts, as In Orenburg, whero tho births are as high as 60 to tho 1000 In a year. Notwithstanding the enormous emigration emigra-tion from Europe in tho nineteenth century. cen-tury. Its population now is nearly double what it was at the beginning of the century. cen-tury. It is bellevod that at the begin- ' nlng of the Christian era there were only a few million people In the whole of Europe. Eu-rope. It docs not seem likely that the present rate of Increase can continue many centuries to come. That part of Great Britain occupied by England is now the most densely peopled region in Europe. The crowding of so many millions together 5s at last having the effect of diminishing the birth rate. Statistics show that It has declined one-fourth one-fourth in tho last twenty-eight years. If tills goes on it will not be a very long lime before the English birth rate is as :lmaU as that of France. In somo parla of Gcrmanv as in Berlin and the region around It. the birth rate Is declining, but In most of the empire It still appears to bo holding Its own. |