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Show Tiik G human Government, upon December 1, 1S75, took a census of the German empire Tho official figures are already publi-hed for several states, whiUt a final revision is being made lor the remainder ol thc empirc. Il U believed that this final revision can only make trilling alterations, owing to heretofore undetoclrd, but small errors, and that Ihe unofficial figure, already made public, will not be materially changed. Upon December 1, according to these returns, the population ol the empire numbered 412,726 811, whilst four yiars before the population was -(1 ,02o,0'j.3. The increase of population popula-tion during that pnriod is 1,70:1, 749, an average annual gain of about one p.i:r cent. Tiie war wilh Franco, it is estimated, co t the nation about a xuarler of a million men. Tuis lo?e 13 already covered nearly seven-fold, according to the correspon lent who . reports (he figures, and who adds the comment: "So quickly does peace heal the wounds of war." |