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1890     2,507,414 1880      1,911,698 1870      1,478,103 1860      1,174,779 1850        696,115 1840        391,114 1830        242,278 1820        152,056 1810        119,734 1800         79,216 1790         49,401

The following interesting figures are given by the Washington correspondent of The Times:

New York now has a population greater than many of the countries of the world, for instance, Australia in 1908 had within its borders 4,275,306 persons, exclusive of the aborigines, while Ireland (1909) had a population of 4,374,158. Bulgaria in 1908 showed a census return of 4,158,409, and Denmark and Greece, respectively, had 2,659,000 and 2,632,000 subjects of their kings. Norway in the same year was populated by 2,350,786 persons, and Switzerland by 3,559,000.

The figures in the cut above exhibit fifty years of New York's expansion.

The fifteen largest cities of the world, each having more than one million population are as follows:

London           7,537,196 New York         4,766,883 Paris            2,714,068 Tokyo            2,085,160 Berlin           2,040,148 Chicago          1,698,575 St. Petersburg   1,678,000 Vienna           1,674,957 Canton           1,600,000 Peking           1,600,000 (estimated) Moscow           1,359,254 Philadelphia     1,293,697 Constantinople   1,125,000 (estimated) Osaka            1,117,151 Calcutta         1,026,987 and suburbs

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Cities and Atmospheric Impurities—See .

Cities Due to Discoveries—See.

City versus Country—See.

Civic Pride—See.

Civic Strength—See.

CIVICS

It is said that one day recently a committee from a certain college investigated the Jacob Riis Settlement on the East Side of New York and made the criticism that civics were not taught. "I'll show you how I teach them," said Riis. "I noticed that the Jews and Irish did not get on together, so