Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1892 — EUROPEAN CITIES. [ARTICLE]

EUROPEAN CITIES.

Some at Them Boro Grow* More Rapid!) than New York. There seems to tie something unpatriotic in pointlr-f out (ihat the growth of population In foreign countries may be as great as in our own; but it Is generally best In the end to accept the truth, without regard to consequences. To say ' othlng of some of the Bmaller German 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 New York. The population of the latter city, In 1830, was 302,589, and In 1? 9Q was about 1,400,000; while Berlin, In 1880, had only 147,009 Inhabitants, which had increased in 1890 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 the difference is still greater, Berlin, from 528,000 inhabitants in 1861, having almost exactly trebled Its population In twentycine years, while New York had 814,287 nhabltants in 1830, and In thirty years baa added less than 80 per cent. London, by the census of 1891, has approxi mately 4,500,000 Inhabitants; Pa.is has -,450,000; and Vienna. 809.400. St i’etersharg Is more populous than Vienna, having very nearly 1,000,000 and Naples la not irary far behind.