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BENITO —DOOBAUNT 119,889 inh.), Salsky (Yelikoknyazheskaya village), Taganrog In 1881 the percentage of illiterates among Roman Catholics was (chief town same name, 51,965 inh.), Ust-Medvyeditsa (chief town 47‘8. In 1891 there were 7 superior schools with 154 pupils same name, 14,520 inh.), Khoper (Uryupinskaya, 9612 inh.), (27 Roman Catholics and 127 Protestants), and 424 primary Cherkassky (chief town Novocherkassk, capital of province, 52,005 schools with 20,747 pupils (14,648 Roman Catholics and 6099 inh.). Many of the Cossack villages {stanitsas) are very populous. Protestants). The number of pupils on the rolls of the national schools on 30th September 1899 was 30,016, of whom 23,183 were (P. A. K.) Roman Catholics and 6833 Protestants. The following table Don Benito, a town of Spain in the province of gives the number of births, deaths, and marriages in various Badajoz, 62 miles east of Badajoz by rail. Population in years :— 1897, 15,863. It is a prosperous, busy place, with an active trade in wTheat, wine, oil, and fruit. There are brandy distilleries, flour-mills, and soap, linen, jute, and cloth factories. Public buildings include a theatre and two casinos. In 1899 the birth-rate per 1000 was 20’4, and the death-rate 13'5 ; Doncaster, a municipal and quarter sessions the rate of illegitimacy was 1-8 per cent, of the total births. The borough and market-town in the Doncaster parliamentary total number of emigrants who left the county between 1st May division of Yorkshire, England, on the Don, 156 miles 1851 and 31st December 1899 was 121,429, of wdiom 64,848 were north-east of London by rail. Besides a Wesleyan school, males and 56,581 females. The chief towns in the county are Letterkenny, and Donegal. there have been erected Primitive Methodist, Presbyterian, Ballyshannon, Administration.—The county is divided into four parliamentBaptist, Congregational, and Wesleyan chapels; also Boman ary divisions, north, south, east, and west, the number of regisCatholic and other churches. A free library and school of tered electors in 1900 being respectively 8095, 8370, 7950, and science and art, public baths, gas-works, electricity works, 9475. The ratable value in 1900 was £304,121. By the Local (Ireland) Act, 1898, the fiscal and administrative corn exchange, markets, slaughter-houses, and cold stores Government duties of the grand jury and (to a less extent) of other bodies have been built; and the water-works constructed at Thry- were transferred to a county council, urban and rural district bergh in 1880 (£170,000) have been augmented to more councils were established, and under that Act the county now than twice their capacity of supply by a joint scheme comprises 2 urban and 10 rural sanitary districts. Agriculture.—The following tables give the acreage under crops, undertaken in partnership with Sheffield and Kotherham; including meadow and clover, and the amount of live-stock in electric trams running from the borough into adjoining 1881, 1891, 1895, and 1900 suburbs are in course of construction; the old opera-house has been taken down and a new one erected near the railway station, and the Yorkshire institution for deaf mutes enlarged. The racecourse accommodation has been extended by the formation of the Sandall mile course and the erection of additional permanent stands. The Great Northern Bailway Company’s locomotive and carriage works employ between 5000 and 6000 hands. Area, 1695 acres. Population (1881), 21,139 ; (1901), 28,928. In 1899 the total value of the cereal and other crops was estimated the Registrar - General at £1,569,253. The number of acres Done he ry, an ancient town and railway station, by under pasture in 1881 was 380,510 ; in 1891, 410,259 ; and in in the arrondissement of Sedan, department of Ardennes, 1900, 422,862. France, 3 miles west of Sedan, on the Meuse. A sanguinary Horses battle between the French and Bavarians was fought here Asses. Cattle. Sheep. Pigs. Goats. Poultry. Year. and on the left bank of the Meuse, 31st August 1870, and Mules. two days later, at the CMteau de Bellevue, Napoleon 2500 178,286 202,885 35,968 3702 706,797 1881 23,762 2265 164,844 147,894 22,885 3118 675,700 1891 23,224 surrendered his sword to the king of Prussia; and terms 2116 180,954 183,212 34,514 2855 762,652 1895 23,939 of capitulation for Sedan were agreed on. Population 3096 186,324 194,707 27,471 2916 867,492 1900 22,511 (1901), 1915. The number of milch cows in 1891 was 65,264, and in 1900, Donegal, a maritime county of Ireland, province 66,335. It is estimated that the total value of cattle, sheep, and pigs in 1899 was £2,709,468. In 1900 the number of holdings of Ulster. exceeding 1 acre was 1573 ; between 1 and 5, 2882 ; between Area and Population.—The area of the administrative county in not 5 and 15, 10,399 ; between 15 and 30, 8432 ; between 30 and 50, 1900 was 1,190,268 acres, of which 220,864 were tillage, 422,862 4037
- between 50 and 100, 3161; between 100 and 200, 1026 ;
pasture, 995 fallow, 5890 plantation, 102,465 turf-bog, 28,614 200 and 500, 344 ; above 500, 97—total, 31,951. The marsh, 346,289 barren mountain, and 62,289 water, roads, fences, ‘between number of loans issued (the number of loans being the same as &c. The new administrative county under the Local Government the number of tenants) under the Land Purchase Acts, 1885, 1891, (Ireland) Act, 1898, is identical with the old judicial county. The and 1896, up to 31st March 1900, was 1207, amounting to population in 1881 was 206,035, and in 1891, 185,635, of whom £334,948. The number of loans for agricultural improvements 91,478 were males and 94,157 females, divided as follows among the under sect. 31 of the Land Act, 1881, between 1882 and different religions :—Roman Catholics, 154,893 ; Protestant Epis- sanctioned 1900, was 280, and the amount issued was £17,943. The total copalians, 21,884 ; Presbyterians, 18,055 ; Methodists, 2006 ; and amount issued on loan for all classes of works under the Land other denominations, 797. The decrease of population between 1881 Improvement from the commencement of operations in 1847 and 1891 was 9’90 per cent. The average number of persons to to 31st MarchActs, 1900, was £190,129. . an acre was '16. Of the total population, 180,844 inhabited the Fisheries. — In the deep-sea and coast fishery districts _ol rural districts, being an average of 181 persons to each square Killybegs, Gweedore, and Rathmullen the number of vessels regismile under crops and pasture. The population in 1901 was tered in 1899 was 678, employing 2929 men and boys._ The 173,625 (Roman Catholics, 134,999 ; Protestant Episcopalians, number of persons employed in the salmon-fishery districts or 19,907 ; Presbyterians, 16,221 ; Methodists, 1795 ; others, 703), Ballyshannon and Letterkenny in the same year was 988. being a decrease of 6'5 per cent. The following table gives the (w. H. Po.) degree of education in 1891 :— Doobau nt, a river of Mackenzie and Keewatin Percentage. Males. Females. Total. districts, Canada. It rises in Wholdiah Lake, in 104 20 B. C. Pr.Ep. Presb. W. long, and 60° 15' N. lat., and flows northward to its 47,464 45,304 92,768 48-8 73-6 81-3 Read and write confluence with the Thelew river, and thence eastward to 11-0 13-9 12-8 10,486 11,981 22,467 Read only Chesterfield Inlet, an arm of Hudson Bay. It passes 52,013 37-3 27,838 13-6 24,175 7-7 Illiterate through several lake-expansions, including Doobaunt Lake,
