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Show Ilallroad Mlleaie af Cnrone. At the beginning of Ihe year 1837. there were. In all I'urope 1C9,0:S miles ot rallroadt In operation, thlt being an Increase, during tbe year 1891 of 3,1 1 1 mllei, aaya Consul IM Holt, of Bt. Gall. Ot thla Increase Austria-Hungary had SOS miles, of which Hungary had 697 miles. In Ilttstla there waa an Increase In-crease of Co5 mltrt. Thlt, ot course, doei not Include the translberlan and tranecaucaslan llnea, wllh their 1,,IJ miles, a large portion of which baa recently been opened to traffic. Germany Ger-many Increaaed her railroad mileage (79 mllea the time aa Hungary the kingdom of Prussia receiving III miles. The countrlea ot Kurope now hiving the moat ritlroidt In operation, according ac-cording to their areat are. In their order: or-der: Uelglum, 3.68! miles; Great Hrlt-aln Hrlt-aln and Ireland, 21,117 miles; Germany, .9,355: Switzerland, 2,209 miles; Holland. Hol-land. 1.C08 mllei: France, 25,019, The other countrlea of Europe have the fol. lowing railroad mileage: Auttrli, 11.-951; 11.-951; Denmark, 1.0B; Bpaln, 7,615; Oteece, 590; Italy, 9,319; lAixemberg, 2C9; Portugal, 1.M; Roumanla, l,7lt; Iluaila proper, 23.446. Finland, 1.4SI; Servla, 335; Sweden, 0.073s Norway. 1,201; Turkey and Hulgarla, 1,607; the liland of Jeney, Malta and Man, 61 mllea. |