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AUSTRIA-lIUNGARY. 



owing to the financial disasters whicli have recently overtaken Vienna. A fine 

 winter haven has been constructed on the peninsula lying between the new 

 Danube and the branch which flows through Vienna. 



Although Austria proper is inhabited by Germans, the crowds which fill the 

 streets of Vienna are made up in a large measure by strangers from all parts of 

 the empire and from the East.* The Bohemians constitute the most numerous 

 foreign element of the population, and next to them come Magyars : Slovaks (most 

 of them gardeners), Servians, Rumanians, Greeks, Armenians, and other repre- 

 sentatives of the East are attracted in hundreds. But of all races it is the Jews 

 who increase most rapidly. Numbering about 60,000, they command the money 

 market, and by means of the press, which is almost entirely in their hands, they 

 influence the political world almost as largely as they do the commercial. 



Fig. 22. — The Ancient Arms of the Danube at Vienna. 



14° 5\Long E.of P, 



Lat.. 48° 13° 



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Vienna is famous throughout Germany as a town of pleasure. Its gaiety is 

 proverbial ; nowhere else do the masses so readily contrive to amuse themselves, 

 and on holidays the parks and gardens of the city resemble vast pleasure grounds. 

 But Vienna is also a busy hive of industry. Its artisans were famous in 

 legendary times, for it was there that Attila obtained his nuptial robes ; and they 

 are so still. Amongst the articles manufactured are silks, carriages, steam- 

 engines and machinery, pianofortes, and other musical and scientific instru- 

 ments. The Government printing-ofiice is perhaps the foremost establishment of. 

 that kind in Europe. The Viennese artisans excel in the manufacture of trifles 

 in ivory, leather, paper, and metal, and although these " articles " may be inferior 



* In 1870 amongst every hundred Viennese there were 56 German Austrians, 12 non-Austrian 

 Germans, 18 Bohemians and Slovaks, 6 Magyars, 6 Jews, and 2 foreigners. 



