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Show NORWAY. Norway has elected a prince of Denmark to be her constitutional king. Norway has an area of 124,130 miles, about as great an area as California Cali-fornia would have if a state as large as New Jersey Jer-sey and West Virginia both were taken from it. Seventy-five per cent of that area is not land that can be cultivated, though much of it is timber land. Her population numbers 2 263,000 souls, about as many as claim Chicago for a home. Her exports amount to $46,500,000 annually; imports $78,470,000. She has a state revenue of $23,247,-000 $23,247,-000 annually. Her merchant marine tonnage is the fourth in size among the nations. By the way, the ships engaged in the fruit trade between Central Cen-tral America and the United, States, are Norwegian ships, manned by Norwegians. She has a public debt of $71,032,000, on which the annual interest charge is $2,301,000. Her banks have $160,603,-000 $160,603,-000 on deposit. She has 3,488 manufacturing establishments, es-tablishments, in which are employed 81,813 people. peo-ple. Her ships engaged in foreign trade earn $29,738,000 annually. Her exports consist mainly of timber, lumber, wood pulp, matches, fish and some manufactured articles. Norwegians in this country send back $2,000,000 to friends annually. Norway does not produce half enough bread stuffs to support her own people. Either of a dozen states of our republic re-public exceed Norway in population and vastly exceed her productive capacity. In the last eleven years, 124,336 of her people have emjgrated, all but 4,000 coming to the United States. They are a hardy, strong, brave people, and have been a pronounced factor in the world since the fair haired Harfager received his dominions and made for himself lasting fame more than a thousand years ago. It is good that Sweden and Norway have settled their differences, for neither is safe from the avarice of their stronger neighbors neigh-bors on the east and south. |