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Show PopuiiAj China. Tho population of tho Chinese empire em-pire Itf largely u matter of estimnte. There has nocr been such census of tho empire as that which Is taken every decado In this country. Hut tho estimato of tho Almaunch do Gotha for 1900 may bo taken as fairly tellable. According to that eMimntc, tho papulation of tho empire is, In louiHl numbers, nbout -100,000,000. It lb probably bnfo to say that If tho human beings on enrth wcro stood up In lino every fourth ono would bo n Chinaman |