-I A!' AN. 



4-.'7 



. reigned, thr Mar.jtatof 

 if ill 



..ImililaryqiiMlioii 



A 



^i| 



ual I 



^^VM commerce, Bigi 



> ignore U allo and < 



HUM l.iU-riK Signor Pavontflli i, 

 in Mariano noniwri 



had ad; 



oo coming t. Aether again on Dec. 90 rejected a 



n ' want .,f confidence coming faun the 



Bight by thv nam>w mnj .1 house of 



.i V. . -. 



a nomMftt**tt by voting *g*fnt1 



nly saved from defeat by it- 



lariat of state. Aficr approving a new monetary 



fejrtJoci ' it., l.v ' 



Ihf Transfer of ka*la. 

 Italian commandant formally evacuated 

 which wae occupied by 900 bnrptian troop* 



I 'arson*. 



. tfuUr- in ih. luhanverviee enlisted for 



" I BJSJM i ,.'-'...:.: I i .-..-. I ._ 



aly. The 



h commander had already led hi* new troops 

 against the dervish position on the AlUra. < 



-I,, IT, . - -. . 



.,.;... , , | , 



IM-* < io\i-rn< T "f l.rvth 

 rapal.li- of orifa: 



r. ial basis, embark*: 





d in 





I ^t 



I \r\\.an inland empire in A Ma ami a long 

 aii-1 t ago eaatwanl of th< 



ie Pacific Ocean. Of th.- known islands, ex- 

 ceeding 4.000 ii about 500 are inhnl 



tal area in 160.140 square milt*, and the coast 



.luilinj; Formosa, is 186,679 miles long. The 



Bmperor Mutouhito . j-.-ar.-ful man") was born 



llaruk iv88, 



1850. wan marn uperor has 



raditionally the one hun- 

 dred ami twcnty-eeoond in the line of the oldest 

 >nl .lynas A..H.1. Th.- Kmprees has 



Thirteen . hiMr. n have been 

 of the ladies in the harem, Madan 

 he mother of five, one of whom, a >t 



heir aipar 



*9 declares that tin 



throne shall be succeeded to by imperial male 



:wrvl and 

 If the ri^-i 



reignty. exercising legislat r with the 



the Imperial hiet. composed of an tip- 

 nominees and 



lally.' 



f dOstaUe- 

 of wide experience. nth aeesion of 



tentative* was dis- 

 Imperial eommand. nmenthas 



ill necessary flnanrial n 



an* of an im|Mrml 

 misters are responsible to the Kmpe- 

 f Japanese 



H is towanl eurtailment of imperial preroga- 

 tive atnl ! 



anlatlon. \ ful ami minute census is 



mnually i\- the Home Department and pub- 



Uahedin the "OftU-ial (tar. n,- ." 1t> 1896 there were. 



270,680 people, dwelling 



<v6 of the gentry, and 38368,988. 



The cities having more than 100,000 people 



1! I'; 



were Tokio. Osaka, Kioto, Nagoya. V 

 Kobe, and Hiroshima. The proportion of 



100. There were 8?.1I1 



* given paesports to travel abroad, of whom 



4378 were women, the larger numbers going to 



Korea, Russian countries. Hawaii. ( hma, and the 



total population of the whole Japanese Empire was 

 4AJ879.6&J, of whom 21345.750 were males and 20.- 



984378 wer 



I i nanrw. The annual budget subrar 



- an octavo volume of roorr than 



pages, can-fully print*. 1 in Japane*r. with elaborate 



ially rt-| 

 during the past ten years will be found in the annual 



by the secretary of the imperial Cabinet in June of 



r the thir- 



tethn*oalyeai ' M. >; v .- . .-. 

 10,084 109 ' i . 



. : . -.. . .... ;: . 



M8389; stamp CUM and ragMratkMi.'7jnMl; 



.t Industrie* a 



poet* and telegraph. 12.133.13i: railwav pn.flt*. 

 O.485.733 ; which. i 



^ipls. gave a iota! '345 yen 



dinary revenue. Kttraortiinary revenue, such at 

 money raised by |KiMi- loan, cash brought over 

 from Wt year, and appropriation from the war in- 

 demt Motl of 119.189387 yen. or a grand 



total of 940399,489 yea. In ordinary expenditure* 



wn. 3.000.000; 

 foreign a(T 

 Treasurv Iwnartmet: 



B703B1 | -: . I Rfl " '' ~*~ ; . . 

 S75; agriculture and commerce, 1.494395; commn- 







making a total of ordinary expense* of 118390380 

 yen. in the extraonlinary expense* the chief item* 

 were: Home affair*. H>.ft81.6B9; war. 3O.O8" 

 navy.66.DW.126: commu: 



!her items, a total of extraordina- 

 penditures of 187344,178, or a grand total of 840,- 



