Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1894 — Russia's Teeming Millions. [ARTICLE]

Russia's Teeming Millions.

London Vanity Fair. | The population of Russia at the beginning of this year ■ numbers about 124,000,000 souls. These are distributed in the following manner: In thefifty Governments of Russia in Europe there about 89.000,000 inhabitants: in the Vistula country 8,900,000; in the Caucasus 8.000,000; in Siberia 4,750,000; in Asia 6,100, 000, and in Finland 2,380. These figures are worthy of noteThe Russian army in time of peace numbers about 820,000 men, which, compared to the population, is but a small number. Other coutries, such as Germany and France, have already more than one per cent, of their populations permanently with the colors. Should the Czar one day, by a single stroke of the pen, choose to follow the example of other European powers, he j would be in command of by far the ' largest number of men, under one sovereign, in the world.