Where the leaders (....) are inserted no quotations were given in the New York markets. 88 388888 13 THE P POPULATION OF THE GLOBE. HE population of various countries of the globe, but particularly of the countries of Europe, is a question that is constantly coming up in connection with the amounts of the precious metals available for use as money. In regard to Asia, containing more than half the entire population of the world, there is even yet comparatively little definite information, but on the whole the knowledge of the distribution of the world's inhabitants has been greatly improved in the last quarter of a century. Twenty-five years ago the commonly accepted estimate was one thousand millions, but a recent estimate by Dr. Wagner (of which a synopsis was printed in the Bankers' Magazine for May, 1875,) places the estimate for the total at 1,391,032,000. The population of each of the countries in the period from 1874 to 1876 may be stated as in the following table, in which I have also given the populations of some of the most important countries at various previous dates to show the increase - though it is possible that a part of the apparent increase may be due to more accurate enumeration. WEST INDIES. Spanish possessions, Havana, 202,488 (census 1867)... 2,068,870 British possessions. 1,042,585 French possessions.. 306,244 Dutch possessions 35,482 Danish possessions. 37,821 Swedish possessions. 2,898 Hayti. 572,000 San Domingo 136,500 Japan 33,110,503 Hindoostan, with British Possessions and Ceylon 240,112,001 25,935,082 East India Islands.... 30,465,030 Galla-country and country east of White Nile. ROBERT'S RULES OF ORDER, For Deliberative Assemblies.— By Major H. M. Robert, Corps of Engineers, U. S. A. Pocket size, cloth, 75 cents. This book is far superior to any other parliamentary manual in the English language. It gives in the simplest form possible all the various rules or points of law or order that can arise in the deliberations of any lodge, grange, debating club, literary society, convention, or other organized body, and every rule is complete in itself, and as easily found as a word in a dictionary. Its crowning excellence is a "Table of Rules relating to Motions," on two opposite pages which contains the answers to more than two hundred questions on parliamentary law, which will be of the greatest value to every member of an assembly. "It should be studied by all who wish to become familiar with the correct usages of public meetings."-E. O. Haven, D. D., Chancellor of Syracuse University. "It seems much better adapted to the use of societies and assemblies than either Jefferson's Manual or Cushing's."-7. M. Gregory, LL. D., late President of the Illinois Industrial University. "I shall be very glad to see your Manual brought into general use, as I am sure it must be, when its great merit and utility become generally known.-Hon. T. M. Cooley, LL. D., author of Cooley's Blackstone,'” etc. "After carefully examining it and comparing it with several other books having the same object in view, I am free to say that it is, by far, the best of all. The Table of Rules' is worth the cost of the work."-Thomas Bowman, D. D., Bishop of Baltimore M. E. Conference. "This capital little manual will be found exceedingly useful by all who are concerned in the organization or management of societies of various kinds. If we mistake not, the book will displace all its predecessors, as an authority on parliamentary usages."-New York World. "I admire the plan of your work, and the simplicity and fidelity with which you have executed it. It is one of the best compendiums of Parliamentary Law that I have seen, and exceedingly valuable, not only for the matter usually embraced in such a book, but for its tables and incidental matter, which serve greatly to adapt it to common use."-Dr. D. C. Eddy, Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. MISHAPS OF MR. EZEKIEL PELTER.-Illustrated. 12mo, cloth........... ..$1.50. "So ludicrous are the vicissitudes of the much-abused Ezekiel, and so much of human nature and every-day life intermingle, that it will be read with a hearty zest for its morals, while the humor is irresistible. If you want to laugh at something new, a regular side-plitter, get this book."-The Evangelist, St. Louis. "We have read Ezekiel. We have laughed and cried over its pages. It grows in interest to the last sentence. The story is well told, and the moral so good, that we decidedly like and commend it.”—Pacific Baptist, San Francisco. |