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VOK XXVI. NO. an.

CAPE MAY CITY, SATURDAY MORNING AUGUST 28- 1897.

PRICES CENTS

CONGRESS HALL.

CAPF. WAV,

Unlit of brick. •ItuAlfd on » bl^f

K. J.

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»ldod""witb'cTpry comfort .nd co. Tl.. r.^ma are Airy, oo.) and charm IrclY fitted ; the cnlalw and aerricc ourxr< tied, and tbrre la a lorelyal* acre lawn liaaacnier plerator. electric bella, firft-clawa laundry. flr<M*cap.-*. and the moa complete arrang menu for 500 Gueala. Congreaa Hall baa been nsccntly renova tlon, repainted an i ut In excellent condition. The aanlury arraugemenU are tha mnat annrovcd pattern and are now perfect. the moat approrco , K1»WABI» KXIGHT CAKE.

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HOTEL COLUMBIA,

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MODERN IMPROVEMENTS APPOINTMENTS STRICTLY FIRST CLASS DIRECTLY RACING THE OCEAN BEAUT1FULLAWNS. RATvS.Ss AND is PER DAY SPECIAL TERMS BY THE WEEK Corner rooms and suites with parlors and baths extra. Concerts mornings to to 12. Hops evenings, 8.30 to to. 30. Dogs not taken or allowed on the premises. HORACE M. CAKE. MARINE VILLA ANNEX Finest Location in Cape May. ■ r^rr~ ■ I HAVE TAKEN THE PAGE and TATHAM COTTAGE’S IN CONNECTION WITH MARINE VILLA ANNEX. Now n-ady to rec-lv* my former pain n-. I .ball not manage the Marine Villa tbla aeaaon. Mrs. F. HALLENBECK.

South Lafayette St,

Near Reach,

M 8 FIELD

the wittamH, HA PIE MAY, NT. J. Open Spring. Summer, Autumn. Haa been renovated and la now flrat-elaa. £ all lu appoinlmeata. Finrat Location nn the S mth Jeraey Coaat. The WINDSOR alwaya haa euteruloed the beat of Cape M.ya ri.itora and will con inue to do eo. R. HAlaPlIX, Proprietor.

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NEW YORK’S POPULATION.

liclpwl nuthnrttlc* “f Part* havH* ipletad the offldal enumeration of 1 Dillon of the French capital, nd to be 2.600.00a Such a computation lw uuwlr every Ore yearn, and that of 1801 allowed the population of Paris to ImB.ltT.OiT. The French aratem of taking a oenaun la character!rod by method and precision, for It la not baaed on a haphazard report of the. number of residents of the city at a stated time, but la reached In a very different and more satisfactory way. First of all. Use enumeration of the InhabltanUat the last preceding census la taken, and to this la odd ed the numlier of children bora within the city—the French birth statistics arc Inflexibly exact—and from It la deducted the number of deaths, those being also an exact quantity, but no morn eo than la the case In New York, where no serious error* lu the death rate ore possible, though the birth rate figures are sometimes misleading and incomplete. In addlUon to these two Items of Information the local authorities of French cities and communes have an exact record of the newcomers from other places, whether transients or permanent residents, and of tboso who loo it, under those circumstances la 1

pllatlon of figures previously obtained. The area of the city of Paris la 20,000 acres, and the average population to the acre Is, therefore, 125. A steady gain In the density of population has been In progress for some years In Ports, and It I* pretty well distributed throughout the town— more evenly. In fact, than Is the case In either London or New York. What is known os the nmmdissement of the Temple U the most thickly populated section of Paris, and It lias 300 persons to the acre. How this compares with the density of population In the city of New York Is shown by the following: By the last figures of the board of boolth, based on tbs enumeration of April, 1895, the present population of the Tenth ward of this city is TO, 15a The area of this ward ts 110 acres, and the population to the acre la therefore, 637. besides which the density of imputation in the most congested region ut Paris sivms almost unimportant. The population of the Tenth ward has lucreoaid from 60,000 to "0,000 Within the hist ten years, and the population to the acre has been steadily rising, of course. Nor Is there any diminution of it now. The Seventh ward of this city, with on acreage of 200, lias a population of 75,000, or 375 to the acre. London is Justly entitled to precedence as the largest city In the world, not merely In population, but In area as well The distinction between the two Is sometimes overlooked. It Is customary in some cities to roughly annex all the available suburban territory, while other cities adhere to ordinary geographical Unas. The city of Chicago Is throe times as large In ured os New York, but the actual population of Chicago, despite the absurd claims to the contrary of some Chicago enthusiasts. Is materially less. New York hnsan orreageof 28,000and ts larger tlum Paris,with 20,000; Berlin,with 16,000, and Vienna, with 18,700. The Twentyfourth word of New York, forming the northern boundary of the city. Includes morotlwn one-third of the total area of the town, but It hod by the lost enumeration less tlum 50,000 In population, or about the same as the Fourteenth ward, with nn area of 96 acres, while the Twenty-fourth cover* 10,000 arms. This detail Is important, far persons examining the matter superficially and not making allowance for the extent of t he unsettled and undeveloped Twenty-fourth ward fall to realize how dense Is tlie imputation of New York city, and to understand how much It Is compacted In many sections of the territory south of the line of Fourteenth street. The recent Parisian census does not alter the position of the French capital In resped to the isipulntlon. for it stands, as before, second only to London, but not materially nearer than It was five years ago. The total population of the Greater New York will put this city In second place, for the twtliunUi of the Greater New York population Is now 2,700,000. and It Is growing more rapidly all the time nnd In greater ratio than Is the city of Paris.—Now York

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Or. KansMi's Reception In Paris. Up to now the French Geographical society has only meant to roc a lugubrious looking Building In the Faubourg St. Germain, hung about with glazed charts. This, however, Is the luminous Impression that suddenly burst upon my mind a few evenings ago In connection with the words “Geographical Society Tbs enormous Salle drs Fetes of the Trocadcro was blazing with electric lights, with tier rising upon tier of units packed with human bring*. People blocked the aisles end bung on by tbrir eyebrows, and up to 9 and 10 o'clock men in evening dress and women in light toilets were thronging the corridors of the palace entrance, only to bo turned away. On the platform was s long table covered with green cloth, at which, at half past 8 o'clock, the following gentlemen took their places: The Norwegian minister, wearing a broad red ribbon, with orders, M. Due; M. Bam baud, the French minister of public Instruction; U. Mellne, the president of the council; a lieutenant In uniform, representing the president of tbc republic; Admiral Besnard, minister of the nary;'hi. lx-bon, minister of tbs colonic*; Prince d'Arenburg; Prince Boland Bonaparte, and In the center Dr. Nansen, wearing the breed red ribbon of the Order of St. Qlaf and the collar and cross of chevalier of the Legion d’Honneur, presented to him four hours before by President Faure. Opposite, In the presidential box, was Mme. Felix Fsure, with Mme. Nansen at ber right, and Mild. Bolling, Dr. Nansen’s ball sister, who lives In Paris, at ber left, and as Nansen rose, with that vast andlrnoe made up of the French scientific world, the celebrities of arts and letters, tbc tout Paris of the boulevards and miens before him, to address them In French—a lenguage which be does not know—I think be must have felt that a Journey to the north pole was but a summer outing compared with the difficulties of thetask ahead at him.—Harper's Weekly.

When Children Moep. If the children gut up In the morning Ustloan and |iale and cress, look after the ventilation of their sleeping rooms. If possible, never put a dellcale and a robust child to sleep In the nine bed. The stroni gar child is bound by laws of nature to sap the vitality of the weaker. Teach your children to sleep on moderately hard beds and with small or no pillows at all Maks the covering light as possible. A sheet, blanket and thick, downy comfort ought to be enough. If the comfort la properly made either of down or of fine, loose cotton, loosely tacked. Heavy bed clothing is a positive 111.—tit. Louis Bepublio.

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