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ITALY. 



and private schools, 13 ; commercial colleges, 

 11 ; value of school-houses, $108,080.89; num- 

 ber of pupils enrolled, public schools, 472,966 ; 

 whole number of students, 623,151 ; number 

 of male instructors, 5,760; number of female 

 instructors, 17,359; average monthly compen- 

 sation of male instructors, $37.48 ; of female 

 instructors, $30.42. 



Church Statistics. The following table is also 

 made up from the census of 1885 : 



The whole number of organizations is 3,762 ; 

 owning property, 3,406; renting, 386; not re- 

 porting value, 388 ; not reporting capacity, 760. 



State Institutions. The State University, at 

 Iowa City, in 1884-'85 had 236 collegiate, 57 

 law, 149 medical (33 homoeopathic), and 36 

 dental students. The State Agricultural Col- 

 lege, at Ames, had in 1885 306 students; vol- 

 umes in library, 5,986. The State Normal 

 School, at Cedar Falls, in 1884-'85 had 408 

 students, besides 68 in the model school. The 

 average attendance was 255. 



The Soldiers' Orphans' Home and Home for 

 Indigent Children, at Davenport, has cared for 

 over 1,800 children since its establishment. On 

 June 30 it contained 280 (151 boys and 129 

 girls), of whom 47 were soldiers' orphans from 

 the State at large, and 233 indigent children 

 from 41 counties. The College for the Blind, 

 at Vinton, on the 10th of June had 151 pupils 

 (71 boys and 80 girls). The Institute for the 

 Deaf and Dumb at Council Bluffs had 305 

 pupils in attendance during the last biennial 

 period. The Institution for Feeble-minded 

 Children, at Glenwood, had an enrollment of 

 259 (164 males and 95 females) on the 30th of 

 June. Of these 54 were classed as non-im- 

 provable. Not fewer than 75 are claiming ad- 

 mission, but facilities are lacking. The Hospi- 

 tal for the Insane, at Mount Pleasant, since its 

 establishment in 1855, has had 5,838 patients, 

 of whom 1,734 have been discharged recovered, 

 1,002 improved, and 1,421 stationary; died, 

 1,126; not insane, 11. The Hospital for the 

 Insane, at Independence, from May 1, 1873, to 

 June 30, 1885, received 3,113 (606 being re- 

 admissions) ; discharged and died, 2,419 ; re- 

 maining, 694. A new Hospital for the Insane 

 is to be located at Clarinda, Page County. The 



Iowa Industrial School has a boys 1 departmenl 

 at Eldora and a girls' department at Mitchell 

 ville. Boys committed from Sept. 21, 1868, tc 

 June 30, 1885, 1,095 ; remaining at the lat'tei 

 date, 290; girls, 148 and 100 respectively 

 The Penitentiary, at Fort Madison, contains 

 about 800 convicts, and that at Anamosa 525. 

 Manufactures, etc. The census of 1885 returns 

 2,865 manufacturing establishments ; value oj 

 goods made in 1884, $70,355,598; capital. 

 $22,524,174. The assessed value of propertv 

 in the State in 1885 was $489,660,081. 



ITALY, a kingdom in southern Europe. The 

 Sardinian Constitution of 1848, extended to the 

 whole country upon the unification of Italy un- 

 der Victor Emanuel in 1861, vests the execu- 

 tive authority in the sovereign, to be exercised 

 through responsible ministers, and the legisla- 

 tive authority in the Parliament. The Senate 

 is composed of members nominated for life by 

 the King. The members of the Chamber oi 

 Deputies, 608 in number, are elected on a 

 collective ticket by ballot by citizens paying 

 20 lire in taxes. The proportion of the popu- 

 lation inscribed as electors in 1882 was 6'97 

 per cent., and of the registered voters 61 per 

 cent, voted. The duration of Parliament is five 

 years, unless dissolved before the end of the 

 period. 



The King is Humbert I, born in 1844, who 

 ascended the throne upon the death of Victor 

 Emanuel. his father, in 1878. The ministry is 

 composed of the following members: Presi- 

 dent of the Council and Minister of the Inte- 

 rior, A. Depretis, appointed May 29, 1881; 

 Minister of Foreign Affairs, Count C. F. Nico- 

 lis di Robilant, appointed in October, 1885; 

 Minister of Public Instruction, M. Coppino; 

 Minister of Finance and of the Treasury, A. 

 Magliano; Minister of War, Gen. C. Kicotti; 

 Minister of Marine, B. Brin ; Minister of 

 Grace, Justice, and Worship, D. Tajani; Min- 

 ister of Public Works, J. Genala ; Minister of 

 Agriculture, Industry, and Commerce, B. Gri- 

 maldi. 



Area and Population. The area of Italy, a< 

 cording to the official calculation, is 296,323 

 square kilometres; according to a calculation 

 made in the Military Geographical Institute of 

 Florence, in 1884, it is 286,588 square kilome- 

 tres (about 110,226 square miles), the peninsula 

 and adjacent isles containing 236,771 square 

 kilometres; Sicily and adjacent isles, 25,740; 

 and Sardinia and adjacent isles, 24,077. 

 population in 1881 was 28,459,628, divided 

 into 14,265,383 males and 14,194,245 females. 

 The population, as officially computed in the 

 beginning of 1885, was 29,361,032. The for 

 eign population in 1881 numbered 59,956, of 

 whom 1,286 were citizens of the United States. 

 The number of marriages in 1884 was 239,514; 

 of births, 1,169,006; of deaths, 818,626; excess 

 of births, 350,380. 



The emigration in 1884 was 147,017, against 

 169,101 in 1883, 161,562 in 1882, 135,832 in 

 1881, and 119,901 in 1880. Of the emigrants 



