They went alone, as both were practised mountaineers. Liliental and a young lady started from a mountain hut to climb to the summit (6,590 feet high). Maurice de Liliental, lost his life, are related by a Vienna lady. He has been connected with Meteorology for 30 years, and was for over a year in charge of the Calcutta Observatory.ĭetails of a tragic accident on the Rax Alp, in the Austrian Alps, in which a French professor of aristocratic family, M. Xavier’s College, where he lectured, chiefly on chemistry for 21 years. For nearly 39 years he has been attached to St. Xavier’s College, where he taught mathematics in the College department.
In 1863 he joined the Society of Jesus and came out to India on December 22nd, 1869, joining St. Trond and studied Theology two years at the seminary of St. Father Francotte, who completed his seventieth year on May 12th last, was born in 1843 at Namur in Belgium.
Xavier’s College, Calcutta, celebrated his jubilee yesterday morning. If the birth-rate continues as it is now in the two countries, in twelve years’ time there will be two Germans for every Frenchman, and forty years hence there will be five Germans for every two Frenchmen.įather E. At the present time the population of France is 39,000,000 and that of Germany 67,000,000. In Germany, on the other hand, there are three births for every one that occurs in France. In 1910 there were 197 births for 10,000 people and in 1911 the figure fell to 187. Since 1900 the same gradation has continued. In the second decade the corresponding figure was 315, in the third 308, in the fourth 290, in the fifth 274, in the sixth 262, in the seventh 261, in the eighth 255, in the ninth 232, and in the tenth 222.
In the first decade of last century there were 323 births per annum for every 10,000 inhabitants. It is not a new development, for it has been going on since the beginning of the nineteenth century with the regularity of a phenomenon governed by mathematical laws. Lilly gives some remarkable figures regarding the depopulation of France.