Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1891 — EUROPEAN CITIES. [ARTICLE]

EUROPEAN CITIES.

Some of Thera Have Grown More Rapidly than New York. There seems to De something unpatrl* otic in pointing out that the growth of population In foreign countries may be as great as id our own; but It is generally best in tho end to accept the truth, without regard to consequences. To say nothing of some of the smaller Herman cities, which have gained In population with a rapidity which would surprise a Westerner, Berlin has grown, within the last sixty years, far more rapidly than Mew York. Tho population of the latter city, in 1830. was 302,589, and in It-90 was about 1,100,000; while Berlin, in 1830, had only 147,000 inhabitants, which had increased in ISPO to 1,574,485; the rate of growth during this long period being thus about one-half more rapid in Berlin than in New York. Within the last thirty years tho difference is still greater, Berlin, from 528,000 inhabitants in 1801, having almost exactly trebled its populat ou in twentynine years, while New York had 1i,287 inhabitants in 1880, ami in thirty years had added less than 8o per coni. London, by the eeusus of 1801. lias approximately 4,500,000 inhabitants r a Is has 2,400,000; and Vienna. 809,400. Bt. Petersburg Is more populous than Vienna, having very nearly 1,000,000 inhabitants, and Naples is not very far behind.