1 68 PAPER IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 



The percentage given for the army in 1871 refers to the men 

 born in 1851; that for 1872 refers to the men born in 1852; and so 

 on. The percentage given for the navy in 1871 refers to the men 

 born in 1850; that for 1872 refers to the men born in 1851 ; and so 

 on. The reason for this difference is that the levy for the army is 

 made at the twentieth year, while that for the navy is made at the 

 twenty-first year. As to higher education, the following list of stu- 

 dents enrolled in the universities and the higher institutions of 

 learning in the Kingdom, for the scholastic year 1897-98, shows an 

 increase of 3,728 over the corresponding period of 1893-94: 



Jurisprudence 6 ? 513 



Notary and procurator 843 



Medicine and surgery 6, 878 



Obstetrics i, 585 



Mathematics 570 



Engineering i, 185 



Physics 130 



Chemistry .* 208 



Natural sciences 436 



Letters and philosophy i, 639 



Chemistry and pharmacy 354 



Pharmacy 2, 675 



Applied engineering... ' i, 338 



Veterinary 924 



Agriculture 302 



Total 25, 598 



PAPER MILLS IN ITALY. 



There.are in Italy 396 paper mills, employing 11,176 laborers, as 

 follows: Men, 5,556; women, 4,659; and children of both sexes, 961. 

 There are 12 pulp mills, employing 360 laborers, as follows: Men, 

 279; women, 63; and children of both sexes, 18. There are also 16 

 paper mills with machinery attached for the manufacture of wood 

 pulp, employing 4,230 laborers, as follows: Men, 2,099; women, 

 1,837; and children of both sexes, 294. This makes a total of 424 

 mills in the paper industry, employing 15,766 laborers. These mills 

 have 25,764 horsepower steam, 5,771; electricity, 1,075; and water, 

 18,918. They use 216 tanks for hand work, 169 continuous ma- 

 chines, and 220 cylinder machines for the manufacture of paper, 

 and 65 machines and 207 presses of 4,740 horsepower, 139 rotary, 

 and 42 "autoclavi" for the boiling, in the preparation of the wood 

 pulp. 



MANUFACTURE OF PAPER IN MILAN DISTRICT. 



As to whether the "people have mechanical traits so as to be- 

 come producers of paper," I would refer to the following statistics 

 of the paper industry, which will also answer many of the questions 

 propounded in regard to the production, uses, etc., of paper in Italy. 



