Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1898 — FACTS ABOUT GREAT BRITAIN. [ARTICLE]

FACTS ABOUT GREAT BRITAIN.

There are 1,000 miles of tramways in the British Isles, Croesus, of ancient times, possessed about £4,000,000. British manufactures are now valued at $4,000,000,000 a year. Two-thirds of the shipbuilding of the world is done by the British. As much as $12,500,000,000 has been lent to other nations by the British. The annual revenue of the British Government Is now $480,000,000. None pf the ancient empires, like that of Persia, Greece or Rome, was equal in size or wealth to the British empire of to-day.