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children of those public functionaries who shall have left their 

 families in poverty^ Besides these donations, Coiint de 

 Moltke has enriched many benevolent institulions. — Idem. 



Mutual Instruction oh\a\ns great success in this country. 

 They count one hundred and forty schools in which this 

 method has been introduced. — /c?e/». 



5. Steam-Boats. — In the month of October (last year) the 

 steam-boat Francis, the first which has navigated the Danube, 

 made its first passage from Vienna to Pesth, and from Pesth 

 to Vienna, with a cargo of 1500 quintals. — Idem. 



6. Prussia. — The population of the Prussian states, which 

 in 1719 was 10,799,954, gave in 1822 a census of 11,494,173 

 inhabhants. — Idem. 



7. Prague, — This city contains 96,618 inhabitants of 

 whom 80,794 are Christians. 7824 Jews, 6500 soldiers, and 

 1500 are foreigners. In the year 1820, there were in the 

 city. 736 marriages, 4199 legitimate births, and from 1400 to 

 1600 illegitimate ; 3683 deaths, among which 191 were still 

 born ; 1328 died within the first year, 6 suicides, and 14 

 deaths only by small pox. The most common maladies are 

 rheumatisms, diseases of the lungs, dropsies, apoplexies, and 

 mental alienations. — Idem. 



8. Weimar. — Goethe. — On the 28th of August, 1823, the 

 friends of Goethe celebrated the 74th anniversary of this 

 great poet, and on the same occasion his happy recovery. 

 Auguste Goethe, his son, occupied at this fete a place of 

 honour. Several poets brought their tributes in stanzas and 

 sonnets, in which they expressed their enthusiasm for the tal- 

 ents of their friend and master. The two physicians who 

 attended Goethe during his dangerous illness, were crowned 

 by the company.— /rfem. 



9. Switzerland. — Zurich. — This city possesses eight so- 

 cieties, each of which, at the epoch of the new year are in the 

 habit of publishing a memoir on some subject appertaining to 

 the natural, civil, or literary history of the country. — Idem. 



