Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1894 — A Little Country’s Big Army. [ARTICLE]

A Little Country’s Big Army.

London News. Gallant little Switzerland, which took such energetic measures in 1870 fcr the enforcement of the neutrality of her ter ri tor y.still continues to make a military display that is astonishing, considering the smallness of her population as compared with that of each of the great States by which she is surrounded. The latest return shows a total “effective” of no fewer than 488,526 men of whom 134.932 cor-, respond te what in other countries would be called the regulars.