A recent editorial in the Boston Herald gives the following interesting statistics regarding the growth of the United States during a period of forty years; in 1860 the population was 31,443,321, and in 1900 76,303,387.
At
a meeting of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company held in London last week, Marconi stated that the next series of tests would include the transmission of words and messages a cross the Atlantic.
Last week a parliamentary paper was issued in London, giving the terms of a practical alliance between Great Britain and Japan for the preservation of peace in China and Korea.
The census bureau has issued a report announcing that the population of the entire United States, including all outlying possessions, was 84,233,069 in the census year 1900.
Regarding the statement of El Tempo, a Mexican newspaper, that John Barrett, delegate of the United States to the Pan-American Conference, had returned to Washington because the Latin countries did not show docility in accepting the leadership of the United States, Mr.
