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Show Educating Cubans. Washington. Nearly 57 per cent of the population of Cuba at least ten years old ran read, the percentage in the large cities being S2.fi. and in the rest of the island 47.9, according to figures obtained in the census recently recent-ly taken. This census shows that in 907 almost one-third of the children ".vere attending school, as compared (with less than one-sixth in 1S95. Between Be-tween 1899 and 1917 the population of tne island increased from 1,572.797 to 2.048,980, or more than 30 per cent. |