Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1898 — England's Costly Map. [ARTICLE]

England's Costly Map.

The largest map in the world is the ordnance survey map of England, containing over 108,000 sheets and costing $1,000,000 a year for twenty years. The scale varies from ten feet to one-eighth of an inch to the mile. The details are so minute that maps having a scale of twenty-five inches “show every hedge, fence, wall, building and even every isolated tree in the country. The plans show not only the exact shape of every building, but every porch, area, doorstep, lamp post, railway and fire plug. “Great indignation," .says the British Weekly, “is expressed at the side of James Payn’s books and manuscripts. The books realized prices enormously below their value. The manuscript of “Lost Sir Massingbred” was sold for three guineas, and the manuscripts of some twenty other novels for somewhere about a shilling a novel. There is something inexplicable about this. Mr. Payn was a most devoted husband and father; be left bis family in fairly comfortable circumstances.