The Cities Of The World

It will hardly be thought that there are not on the whole globe filty cities containing 200,000 poople; but Blich is the fact, and any one may eonvince bimself of it by Consulting ageograpbical dictionary. It would seemat nrst that there must be at least 200 cit;es of 200,000 populfttion; but there is not one-fourth of the nuruber. Of these Great Britaiu has about '■'; France, 8;'Italy, 4;Germany (proper), 5 or 0; China, some 9; Judia, 8 or '■, and the Uñited States, aceordins to the lat est census, 0 or 10. Ft is soniewhat ïömarkabk that a country only 100 years óldj should have as many (if not more) largo cities as the oldest lands; but it is not improbable that, before anot]ier century, weshall count as large a numbér of cities of 200,000 inhabitants as there are now in the whole world. New Yorkers may with a certain disdain upoii towiiïi of that site, buc when they remehiber how few there are, their disdain should be modifiedi if net converted into respect. We are all inclined to think that old and fanious capitals, likeCordova.Granada, Cadiz, Florence, Yenico, Padua, Verona, ISologna, Warsaw, ('racow, Antwerp, Ghen, Rotterdam, Leydeh, Leipsic, must be very largc, though they really have no more than from 70,000 to 1 40,000 or Í 50,000 peoplc ea. li . The cities that can lay claim to 100,000 populación and upwards, are per haps about 150, and these include many of those which at fnat thought we should suppose contained two or three times the number. This planet ia very little after all. lts millions are not near so numeious as t would seem that they ouplit to be, and the bulk of these do not come within our idea of civiliüation, any more than we come within their idea of it. The more we know of our small wcrld, the u'ore insigmficant it appears. i