Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1857-04-25
Our Country.

our Country.
The greatest cataract in the world is 'he
Falls of Niagara, where the waters aecu-
mulate from the great upper, forming a
river three-uuarters of mile in wld!h,are
suddenly contracted and plunged over the
rocks, in two columns, TO the depth OIL
one hundred and sixty feet.
The greatest cave in the world is the
Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, where one
can make voyage on the waters OF
subterIanean river, and catch fish without
eyes. =,
The greatest river in the world is the
Mississippi, four thousand one hundred
miles in length. lis name is derived from
an Indian word, meaning "The Father oil
Waters"
The largest valley in the world is the
valley of The Mississippi. Ii contains tlve
hundred thousand square miles, and Is
one of the most prolific reg ions on the
globe.
The largest lake in the world is Lake
Superior, four hundred and thirty miles
long.
The greatest Natural Bridge in the
world is that over Cedar Creek, IN V'r-
ginia. 1t extends across chasm eighty
feet in Width, and TWO hundred and fifty
feet deep, al the bottom Of which creek
flows.
The greatest solid mass of iron in the
world is the Iron Mountain in Missouri.
1t is three hundred and fifty feet high, and
two miles in circuit.
The largest railroad in the world is the
Central Railroad in illinois, which is sew
en- hundred and thirty-one miles long,cost
fifteen millions OF dollars.
The greatest number of miles of Rail-
road in proportion TO its surface, OF any
country in the world, is in Massachusetts,
which has over one mile 10 every square
mile of its eres.
The greatest number of clocks manu-
(actured in the world, is turned out IN the
small State OF Connecticut.
The largest number of whale ships IN
the world are sent out by Nantucket and
New Bedford.
The greatest grain port in the world is
Chicago.
The largest aqueduct in the world is
The Croton aqueduct IN New York. IL Is
forty and half miles long, and cost twelve
and half millions of dollars.
GAMBLING INToxlcATloN.-A woman
in Baltimore, after losing all her money
at card.paying staked her infant--a
bright, healthy male chid--against dol
lar upon the issue Of another game. The
unnatural mother lost, and the child was
delivered without murmur TO the WIN
ner, who happened TO be married wo-
man also, but without children.
A case somewhat similar is within our
own recollection. A military officer, re-
siding at the time of the occurrence we
are about TO mention, in one Of the small
towns of the Southern coast OF Ireland,
was passionately fond of gambling, and
one night, after losing all his money, and
other valuables at the gaming table offered
to stake his wife, alovely woman, against
all his opponen. had won from him.
The offer was accepted, the game play
ed and the officer beaten. The wife, in
dignant al her lords seeming want Of al
fec,on, and little knowing the situation to
gambling, determined on becoming the
property Of the winner, seeing that the
husband had shown so little respect, not
TO say regard for her. The husbands
honor being at stake, had no objection
the wife, who had no children accompan-
led her new master, and the poor victim
TO hellsh passion of gaming became a
maniac! Often and often have we met
The poor fellow on the sea shore, his
hands behind his back, gazing intensely
across the broad, expansive ocean, as if|
he expected the return Of her on whom
his soul had doaled and still remembered,
from lis bosom--wild and tempesiuous as
his own--but she never came.
A Model Wife.
We have frequently heard of 'model'
wives. but here is one whom all publish