GERMANY. 



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The postal statistics of the empire, according to the latest official publications, were as follows ; 



The extent of electric telegraphs (in kilometres), and the amount of their business, are shown 

 in the following table : 



The total length of railroads of Germany 

 open for traffic on April 1, 1881 (in kilometres, 

 1 kilometre = 0'62 mile) : 



braced, in 1881, 7,596 journals, published in 

 thirty-one different languages. These were 

 distributed as follows among the different lan- 

 guages : 



The price-list of newspapers, for which the 

 German post-office receives subscriptions, em- 



Among the foreign papers that can be or- 

 dered there are 508 from Paris, 469 from Lon- 

 don, 209 from Vienna, 128 from New York, 

 76 from Brussels, 73 from Copenhagen, 44 

 from St. Petersburg, 40 from Borne, and 33 

 from Milan. 



The imperial statistical office in September, 



