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lessened thereby. The bulk of the crop was 

 moved to market by rail, the region of growth 

 being mostly confined to a small area lying on 

 both sides of the Delaware Railroad, and ex- 

 tending about twenty or thirty miles with its 

 length. Only a limited quantity of peaches 

 for market was grown along the bays and nu- 

 merous water-courses of the peninsula, and the 

 shipments from some of them were very meagre 

 indeed. The aggregate of the shipments (by 

 baskets) both by rail and water was as fol- 

 lows: 



By rail, northward 620,000 



By rail, from Middletown to Dover 7,669 



Total by rail 627.609 



By water, to Baltimore 54,550 



By water, to Philadelphia 155,000 



Aggregate shipment by water and rail 837,219 



The shipments of strawberries were esti- 

 mated at 667 car-loads, containing 186,760 

 crates, or 7,470,400 quarts. This is the heaviest 

 crop yet sent to market from the peninsula, and 

 will in all probability be the largest for years 

 to come. It exceeds the estimated crop of last 

 year (5,000,000 quarts) 2,470,400 quarts, but it 

 is very doubtful if this year's crop has brought 

 to the peninsula the amount of money of last 

 year, which was estimated at $500,000. 



DENMARK, a kingdom in Northern Europe. 

 Reigning sovereign, Christian IX., fourth son 

 of the late Duke William of Schleswig-Hol- 

 stein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg, and of Princess 

 Louise of Hesse-Oassel ; appointed to the suc- 

 cession of the Danish crown by the Treaty of 

 London, of May 8, 1852, and by the Danish 

 law of succession of July 31, 1853 ; succeeded 

 to the throne on the death of King Frederick 

 VII., November 15, 1863 ; married, May 26, 

 1842, to Louise, daughter of Landgrave Wil- 

 liam of Hesse-Oassel. Heir-apparent, Prince 

 Frederick, born June 3, 1843 ; married, July 

 28, 1869, to Princess Louisa, only daughter of 

 the late King Charles XV. of Sweden; off- 

 spring of the union are two sons, Christian, 

 born September 26, 1870, and Charles, born 

 August 3, 1872. The King has a civil list of 

 500,000 rigsdalers, and the heir-apparent 60,000 

 rigsdalers. The new ministry, appointed on 

 June 14, 1874, consisted of the following mem- 

 bers: President of the Council and Minister 

 of Finance, 0. A. Fonnesbech ; Minister of 

 War, General P. F. Steinmann ; Minister of the 

 Interior, F. 0. H. E. Tobiesen ; Minister of 

 Public Education and Ecclesiastical Affairs, 

 J. J. A. Worsaae ; Minister of Justice and for 

 Iceland, C. S. Klein; Minister of the Nary, 

 N. F. Kavn. The area of Denmark proper, 

 inclusive of lakes, is 14,753 square miles; of 

 European dependencies (Faroe Islands and Ice- 

 land), 40,268 square miles ; of American pos- 

 sessions (Greenland, St. John, St. Thomas, and 

 St. Croix),.759,900 square miles. In the fol- 

 lowing table we give the population of the 

 kingdom and its dependencies according to 

 the latest dates : 



Nearly the entire population of Denmark 

 proper, namely, 1,769,583, or 99.15 per cent., 

 is connected with the Lutheran Church ; of 

 the remainder, 1,433 are Reformed ; 1,857 

 Catholics; 3,223 Baptists; 1,211 Free Congre- 

 gationalists ; 2,128 Mormons; 4,290 Jews; 260 

 Methodists ; 349 Irvingites ; 74 Anglicans ; 28 

 Friends; 12 Greek Catholics; 88 of various 

 other sects ; 205 without definite creed. The 

 number of emigrants from Denmark was, in 

 1873, 7,200 ; in 1872, 6,893 ; in 1871, 3,906 ; in 

 1870, 3,525; in 1869, 4,360: nearly all the em- 

 igrants went to the United States. The actual 

 revenue and expenditure of the state for the 

 two years 1871-73 (the financial year ending 

 March 31st) were as follows : 



Revenue Rigsd's. 



1871-'72 22,516,916 



1872-'73 24,944,985 



Expenditure Kind's. 

 20.505,183 

 23,678,013 



In the budget for the year 1874-'75 the rev- 

 enue was estimated at 23,024,226 ; the expen- 

 ditures at 22,799,200 ; the surplus, 225,026 rigs- 

 dalers. The public debt, on March 31, 1873, 

 amounted to 110,425,552 rigsdalers, of which 

 81,032,889 were home debt, and 29,392,663 

 foreign debt. The state assets were 53,227,148, 

 leaving 57,198,404 as the real amount of the in- 

 debtedness of the state. The debt has been in 

 the course of reduction since 1866, when it 

 amounted to 132,000,000 rigsdalers. It was 

 expected that in the spring of 1875 this debt 

 would be reduced to 93,000,000 rigsdalers, 

 and that when, on March 31, 1875, the English 

 loans would be paid off, the foreign debt would 

 only amount to 13,000,000 rigsdalers. Five and 

 a half million rigsdalers of the foreign debt 

 were again to be paid in 1877. 



The commerce of Denmark, which is mainly 

 carried on with Germany and Great Britain, 

 was, from 1869 to 1873, as follows (value ex- 

 pressed in rigsdalers) : 



The precise amount of the commercial trans- 

 actions is not known, as the official returns 

 since 1863 have not given the declared or real 

 value of the imports or exports, but only their 

 weight. 



