POPULATION OF NORWAY. SHG) 

cially in freland, where a considerable proportion of chargers 
are purchased by the agents of the Italian Government, who 
subsequently re-sell them on easy terms to the officers. The 
type of horse purchased for cavalry and other mounted 
officers is ef the hunter class, to the value of about £80. A 
less expensive animal would be equally suitable for officers 
of the line, and it is thought that there should be a brisk 
demand for such animals when the new regulation comes 
into force. 
[Foreign Office Report, Aniual Series, No. 2,550. } 

According to the preliminary returns of the Norwegian 
| census of December 3rd, 1900, the total 
econ er population of the Kingdom of Norway on 
Norway. that date was 2,231,395 persons, as com- 
pared with 7,000,917 on January ist, 1891, 
the last enumeration thus showing an increase of 230,478. 
The distribution of the population in the rural and urban dis- 
tricts at the two dates shows that of the total increase the 
towns accounted for 146,305 and the country districts for 
84,173 persons, the augmentation in the former having been 
from 478,226 to 624,531,and in the latter from 1,522,691 to 
1,606,864. The relative growths of towns and country were 
therefore at the rates of 30°6 and 5°5 per cent. respectively. 

Oleo oil, which is an important constituent of margarine, 
is exported in considerable quantities 
United States from the United States. From 1884 to 
Exports of F : ; : 
Oleo Oil. 1888 the annual shipments of this oil 
from American ports varied from 
30,000,000 to nearly 46,000,000 lbs.; in 1889 they declined to 
28,000,000 lbs., but afterwards gradually increased until 1894, 
when they amounted to over 123,000,000 lbs. Another drop 
