Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1884 — Its Vast Extent. [ARTICLE]

Its Vast Extent.

Nearly all schoolboys are familiar with the fine passage from a speech by Daniel Webster in which he alluded to the territorial extent of Great Britain’s possessions. He spoke of the morning drum-beat keeping company with the hours and saluting the flag of Great Britain as the sun journeyed around the earth. Sir Kicharcl Temple, at the scientific meeting at Montreal, read a paper on the vast extent of the English power. One-fifth of the habitable globe is under the sway of Queen Victoria. Her subjects number 315,000,000, and Australia and Canada have room for 200,000,000 more. The annual revenue of the empire amounts to $1,018,000,000. Local taxes swell this sum $305,000,000 more, so that the entire cost of government is about $7.50 per capita annually. These are impressive figures; but our own country is rapidly overtaking Great Britain in wealth and population. Our relative increase is much greater. In the pregnant words of Prime Minister Gladstone, “the United States is passing England at a canter.”— Demorest’s Monthly. The Mason & Hamlin Upright Pianos are pronounced to be, like the organs of the same company, the best of their kind. The refinement. and purity of tone attained in them are especially commended. —Boston Journal.