Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1878 — Bailroads of Seven Great Powers. [ARTICLE]

Bailroads of Seven Great Powers.

The Railway Age prints the following statement of the comparative population, railroad mileage, and debt of the leading countries of Europe, and remarks that it is not perhaps generally appreciated that the United States, with a population less than that of Germany, has more miles, of railroad than all the seven great flowers combined their total mileage being 76,491, while ours is nearly 80,000:

Mile* of National Population. Railroad. Debt. Russia 88,000,000 14,(*00 $1,840,033,015 Turkey 28.000,000 1,138 1,500,000,00 Germany 42,726,844 17,472 671,345,640 Austria 35,904,435 10,154 1,532,631,530 Great Britain. 31,783,700 16,664 3,625,296,580 France 36,102,921 12,246 5,000,*00,095 Italy 26,801,154 4,817 1,851,522,640 That we have fairly beaten the seven great powers as respects mileage, it is very true, but, when looked at from a commercial point of view, the victory is rather a costly one. The largest oyster on record in the United States was one taken from the b’eds in Mobile in 1840. It measured three feet and one inch in length, and twenty-three and a half inoheg in breadth its widest part. ' 1