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Show POPULATION NOTESv C'nciiE are 1,300,000 Irish in Australia. 1 T.io de Janeiro has a population of I It is estimated that over 100,000,000 jf people now speak the English lan-j-uao-e, over 69,000,000 German, and over II .!0:000 French. Ev a recent census in Scotland it was liseovered that only 231,692 persons, or jne in every seventeen of . the popula-:ion, popula-:ion, could speak Gaelic. .:; The increase of population in France luring the last five years has amounted :o only one-half of one per cent. The population of the great cities is increas-ng increas-ng and that of the rural districts deceasing, de-ceasing, v - - |