Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1887 — A Greedy Old Girl. [ARTICLE]

A Greedy Old Girl.

During Queen Victoria’s reign—may ter shadow never grow less; it can’t grow very much greater—there has been added to her realm 7,260,000 square miles of territory, and the population she controls in her colonies has been about trebled. This is why our big-hearted mother country shudders with horror every time she sees any other nation casting greedy eyes upon an island in the Arctic Ocean, forty miles square. If Victoria—God save the Queen —reigns another fifty years, God save the rest of us. She would by that time own so much of this earth that the British possessions would stick out beyond the edges half way to the moon, and all the H factories in the universe would be running on time. Burdette. Said a young lady to a young man: “How far is it around the world ?” to which he replied, “About one arm’s length, I should judge—you are all the world to me.’’— Ele tri ■ Light. Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt has a great Antipathy for cats.