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of 210,514. It appears that immigration into 

 the State, except to the newer counties, is 

 nearly balanced by emigration out of it to 

 Missouri. The total number of persons of 

 school age in the State is 491,344, an increaae 

 of 29,862 in two years. The number of school 

 districts has increased 932. The State Uni- 

 versity still holds 7,840 acres of its land-grant, 

 valued at $27,300. The income of the institu- 

 tion for the two years ending June 3d was 

 $122,041.29. The assets of the university are 

 $232,221.50, of which $202,821.53 represent 

 the working capital. The expenses from June 

 21, 1871, to October 1, 1873, were, $103,415.93. 

 The Dental Association of the State is making 

 a movement for the establishment of a chair 

 of Dentistry in the university. 



The Agricultural College is ia successful 

 operation, and has already graduated two 

 classes. It now holds 22,765 acres of nnleased 

 lands. The sum of $38,500 appropriated for 

 the purpose of various improvements in the 

 college was used up by the defalcation of the 

 treasurer. The College for the Blind is in a 

 flourishing condition, and has 112 pupils. The 

 Institution for the Deaf and Dumb has 119 

 students enrolled. A lawsuit against this in- 

 stitution is pending in the United States Cir- 

 cuit Court, brought by the contractor who put 

 np the building, for alleged extra work. The 

 Soldiers' Orphan Homes contain 508 children, 

 of whom 256 are at Cedar Falls, 154 at Dav- 

 enport, and 98 at Glenwood. The support of 

 the homes for the year cost $146,050. The 

 State Reform School has been located at Eldo- 

 ra, where 440 acres were given to the State 

 for the purpose by the citizens of the place. 

 Several buildings have been erected, and there 

 are already 145 boys in the school. The 

 amount expended on the buildings is $45,000, 

 and the same sum is asked for the purpose of 

 completing the institution. The girls' depart- 

 ment remains on the farm originally leased 

 near Salem in Lee County, and has eleven in- 

 mates. The number of convicts at the peni- 

 tentiary is 276. An additional penitentiary 

 has been established at Anamara, where there 

 are 25 prisoners. The Hospital for the Insane 

 at Mount Pleasant contained, on the 1st of No- 

 vember, 495 patients. Its cost for two years was 

 $229,441.25. A new Insane Asylum has been 

 established at Independence, which was opened 

 on the 1st of May. At the close of the year, 

 178 patients had been admitted, of whom 26 

 were discharged, leaving 152. The buildings 

 of this institution are not wholly completed. 



Work on the new State Capitol at Des 

 Moines is progressing moderately. Up to the 

 end of this year $374,825.88 had been expended 

 on it. At the end of the year there were 3,800 

 miles of railroad completed in the State, being 

 an addition of 469 miles in two years. 



Great hardship and destitution have been en- 

 dnred by the settlers in the northwestern coun- 

 ties of the State, and the Governor in his mes- 

 sage to the Legislature of 1874 recommended 



the adoption of measures of relief. The rais- 

 ing of brook-trout and fresh-water salmon has 

 been successfully tried in Winneshiek, Clayton, 

 and Jackson Counties. On the 17th of Novem- 

 ber a company of militia was sent to Council 

 Bluffs, by order of the Governor, to prevent a 

 prize-fight. It arrived on the scene of action 

 after the fight was over. There is no law in 

 the State prohibiting prize-fighting, and the 

 civil authorities had no power to take action 

 iu this case. 



ITALY, a kingdom of Southern Europe. 

 King, Victor Emmanuel II., born March 14, 

 1820 ; succeeded to the throne of Sardinia, on 

 the abdication of his father, March 23, 1849 ; 

 proclaimed King of Italy, by vote of an Italian 

 Parliament, March 17, 1861; married, April 12, 

 1842, to the Archduchess Adelaide of Austria ; 

 widower January 20, 1855. Children of the 

 King: 1. Heir-apparent, Humbert, Prince of 

 Piedmont, bora March 14, 1844; married, 

 April 22, 1868, to Princess Margaretta of 

 Genoa; offspring of the union is a son, Victor 

 Emmanuel, Prince of Naples, born November 

 11, 1869. 2. Amadeo, Duke of Aosta, born 

 May 30, 1845; King of Spain from December 

 4, 1870, to February 11, 1873; married, May 

 30, 1867, to Princess Maria defla Cisterna, 

 born August 9, 1847; offspring of the union, 

 three sons : Emmanuel, Duke of Apulia, born 

 1869 ; Victor, Duke of Turin, born 1870 ; Louis, 

 born 1873. ' 3. Clotilde, born 1843, wife of 

 Prince Napoleon Bonaparte. 4. Maria Pia, 

 born 1847, wife of King Louis of Portugal. 



The new ministry, appointed in 1873, was 

 composed of the following members : 1. Marco 

 Minghetti, President of the Council of Minis- 

 ters, and Minister of Finance; born at Bo- 

 logna, September 8, 1818 ; captain in the army 

 of Sardinia, 1848-'54; deputy of Bologna to 

 the Italian Parliament of 1860 ; Minister of the 

 Interior, 1861-'62; Minister of Finance, 1862- 

 '64; appointed Minister of Finance, and Presi- 

 dent of the Council of Ministers, July 10, 1873. 

 2. Antonio Scialoja, Minister of Public Instruc- 

 tion, born at Goduccio, Naples, October 1, 

 1817 ; Professor of Political Economy at Tu- 

 rin, 1845-'48; Minister of Finance, 1866-'68 ; 

 appointed Minister of Public Instruction, July 

 10, 1873. 3. Oommendatore Visconti-Venosta, 

 Minister of Foreign Affairs, born 1828; Min- 

 ister of Foreign Affairs, 1866-'f>7; appointed 

 again, December 14, 1869. 4. Giuseppe Spa- 

 venta, appointed, July 10, 1873. 5. Lieuten- 

 ant-General Ricotti-Magnani, Minister of War, 

 appointed September 8, 1870. 6. Rear-Admi- 

 ral Pacoret di San-Bon, Minister of Marine, 

 appointed September 26, 1873. 7. Giuseppe 

 Final!, Minister of Commerce and Agriculture, 

 appointed September 28, 1873. 8. Count Ge- 

 ronima Oantelli, Minister of the Interior, ap- 

 pointed July 10, 1873. 9. Pietro Vigliani, 

 Minister of Justice and Ecclesiastical Affairs, 

 appointed July 10, 1873. 



The Italian Parliament consists of two 

 Chambers, the Senate and the Chamber of 



