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Show ITALY'S POWER. Sunny Italy is making itself conspicuous con-spicuous just now. For centuries it lo..t its military ascendancy, and from ruling the world has been divided into minor, insignificant governments. But of late years it has made considerable consider-able strides in the pathway of national advancement, and bids fair to be recognized re-cognized in the no distant future as a p.v.ver once more in European matters. mat-ters. Even now, she is not to be scorned. In an emergency she can I put into the field of war an army of two millions and a half, besides fifteen thousand men to deal out death and destruction from her formidable navy , or one hundred and seventy-sis war vessels. The United States navy is scarcely worthy the name considering the size of the country, and its immense coast line, ard there is no question but what Italy with her mighty iron clads I could deal this country a fearful blow before it got fairly into fighting trim. But as it was in the war of the levo-, levo-, lution, although our navy then was a miserable concern compared with that of England, the patriotism of the American people was more formidable than thr oak Leviathans of Albion. So now, once the sons of the west are aroused to martial duty, the mixed races oi ' i.-euinsula. had better call i a hall. King Humbert had better listen to the songs of Metastasio than Yankee Doodle; to the Lay of Tasso than the Star Spangled Banner. |