The Grange advance., 1873-12-03
War Strength OF European Powers.

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War Strength OF European Powers.
The Bosen Zeitu',g of Berlin recently
published an interesting article on the
relative war strength of the European
powers. From the statistics furnished
in the article, it appears that Russia is
the strongest military power in Europe,
having 228 regiments Of infantry, with
684 battalions, 228 rifle battalions, 25O
reserve battalions, ~ regiments of the
Guards, 50 regiments of Cossacks, and
3o8 batteries Of eight guns each. Ger
many comes next; having 148 regiments
OF the Guard and infantry Of the line,
"a rifle battalions, 202 battalions of the
Landwehr, 120 cavalry regiments, and
382 batteries Of six guns each. The
French army, under the new organiza-
ton, will consist of 149 infantry regi-
ments, 30 rifle battalions, 288 reserve
battalions, 64 cavalry regiments, and
$50 batteries of six guns each. Austria
has but 80 infantry regiments, 40 rifle
battalions: II cavalry reg giments, and l76
batteries Of six guns each, and Italy
about the same. The weakest of the
leading European powers, in military
point Of view, is England, which has
only lO7 battalions, 80 squadrons and 81
batteries, of six and eight guns each,
and this number the Secretary of War
in his army estimates recently presented
to Parliament, proposes to reduce quite
materially. The statistics of the Berlin
writer show pretty conclusively that
some of the European powers, notably
England, Austria and Italy, cannot make
war without allies.
A COMMUNITY OF WOMEN Only
A Boston letter says : The establish
ment of woman's community within
the limits OF the town of Woburn,
about twelve miles from Boston, was
begun last week, by the formal raising
of the frame Of the first building. In
this community all the land is to be
owned by women: and so far as the
management of the affairs of the vii
lage is concerned, woman suffrage is to
be realized to the extent of the utter po-
litical disqualification Of the sterner sex.
Industrial schools are provided to fit
persons for the different kinds Of work
to be done, including domestic school
for instruction in home duties. Each
homestead is to be accompanied with a
garden, and gardening and fruit raising
will be favorite occupation The site
Of the village is a wilderness, and offers
all manner Of obstacles. The commu-
nifty is called The Woman's Econom-
ical Garden Homestead League" and
it is established by act of the State
Legislature.
From the frantic efforts of some OF
the New York press to urge the country
into war, we conclude that old sources
Of speculation are about dried up. The
meaning Of it all evidently is, that if g
conflict could be induced that city
would pocket most of the profits, leav
ing the country to pay the losses
The Herald wants the President to cal
for 100000 volunteers, and asks all
Democrats and Republicans to rally to
the support of the administration. W.
intend to rally" but it won't be tc
promote causeless war. We want a
100, 900 peace volunteers to settle on
the magnificent and unoccupied farm
lands of Minnesota. It will be fa1
better use than to make them food 70,
gunpowder. AS far as rulers are mod
crate and conservative in this matter
we shall cheerfully sustain them.-Pio