Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1882 — Points of Manifest Destiny. [ARTICLE]

Points of Manifest Destiny.

Why 1 an ox hide in Honduras can be obtained for a pair *>f shoes ; you can get nux vomica enough to fill a drug store for an ax ; you can obtain sufficient quicksilver to load a mule with stone jars of it for a few cheap mirrors; what, then, will bo the result when the engines of the American Railway reach into th© country where Cortez and Vasco carried away two thousand millions of treasure ? —Boston Transcript. Thb importation of eggs into Great Britain last year was 750,000,000, or about two dozen for each man, woman and chilfl in the country. Their money value was over $10,000,000.