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wages paid during the year, $4,844,508 ; ma- 

 terials, $18,583,731 ; products, $31,196,115. 



The total number of religious organizations 

 was 2,873, having 2,698 edifices, with 801,148 

 sittings, and property valued at $3,561,955. 

 The principal denominations were : 



The whole number of libraries was 1,735, 

 with an aggregate of 467,232 volumes. Of 

 these, 32, with 7,765 volumes, were private, and 

 545, with 162,851 volumes, were other than 

 private. There were in the State 110 news- 

 papers and periodicals, with an aggregate cir- 

 culation of 150,987; 15,539,724 copies were 

 annually issued. There were 5 tri-weekly, 

 circulation 3,600; 9 semi- weekly, circulation 

 5,100; 73 weekly, circulation 88,837; 2 semi- 

 monthly, circulation 700; 6 monthly, circu- 

 lation 21,950, and 1 quarterly, circulation 

 1,000. 



GERMANY, an empire in Europe, reestab- 

 lished January 18, 1871. The Emperor Wil- 

 liam I. was born March 22, 1797. He is a son 

 of King Frederick William III. and Queen 



Louisa, and was married June 11, 1829, to 

 Augusta, daughter of the Grand-duke Charles 

 Frederick of Saxe -Weimar. The heir-appar- 

 ent, Frederick William, born October 18, 1831, 

 has the official title of Crown-Prince of the 

 German Empire and Crown-Prince of Prussia. 

 He was married, January 25, 1858, to Victoria, 

 Princess Royal of Great Britain and Ireland, 

 born November 21, 1840. His children are : 

 Prince Frederick William, born January 27, 

 1859 ; Princess Charlotte, born July 23, 1860 ; 

 Prince Henry, born August 14, 1862 ; Princess 

 Victoria, born April 12, 1866 ; Prince Walde- 

 mar, born February 10, 1868 ; Princess Sophia 

 Dorothea, born June 14, 1870 ; Princess Mar- 

 garetta, born April 22, 1872. Imperial Chan- 

 cellor (Reichskanzler) Otto, Prince of Bis- 

 marck-Schonhausen. President of the Im- 

 perial Chancery (Reichskanzler - Amt), Del- 

 bruck, Minister of State. The " Imperial 

 Supreme Commercial Tribunal " (Reichs-Ober- 

 Handels-Gericht) is the supreme court in com- 

 mercial affairs for all the states of the German 

 Empire, except Bavaria ; and it is, at the same 

 time, the supreme court for Alsace-Lorraine. 

 It has its seat in Leipsic. 



The following table exhibits the area and 

 population of the states belonging to the Ger- 

 man Empire, the number of representatives 

 of every German government in the Federal 

 Council, and the number of deputies who rep- 

 resent each state in the Reichstag : 



Both the Federal Council (Bundertag) and 

 the Reichstag meet in annual session, convoked 

 by the Emperor. The Reichsland of Alsace- 

 Lorraine, separated from France by treaty of 

 May, 1871, and provisionally unrepresented in 

 the legislature of the empire, will have, when 

 admitted, one member in the Federal Council, 

 and fifteen deputies in the Reichstag. The 

 subjects of the German Empire who are of a 

 non-German nationality are divided as follows : 



