Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1890 — DID YOU KNOW IT? [ARTICLE]

DID YOU KNOW IT?

We, Too, Have an Empire on Which the Sun Never Sets. Webster’s eloquent description of, the British Empire is very readable, but we doubt whether it is generally realized that we, too, have a dominion, on which the sun never sets, It will hardly be believed, perhaps, without an examination of the maps, that San Francisco, instead of being the west lino of this dominion, is only about midway between our eastern and western limits; and yet it is a fact that the furtherest Alutian isle acquired in our purchase of Russian America is as far to the west of that city as Eastport, Me., is to the east of it, Between the northwest limit of the State of W ashington and the southern limit of Alaska there is a break of a few degrees, but with the slightest reduction our territory extends through 106 degrees of longitude, or 17 degrees more than half way round the globe, Hence, when the sun is giving its good-night kiss to our westward Isle on the continent of the Behring Sea it is already flooding the fields and forests of Maine with its morning light, and |n the eastern part of the State is more than an hour high. At the very moment when the Alutian fishermen, warned by the approaching shades of night, is pulling his canoe toward the shore,, the wood-chopper of Maine is beginning to wake to forest echoes with his stirring music of the ax.— The Great Divide.