Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-02-12
BIG THINGS.
Mammoth steanshfp-A 500 900 Pesna
stone-Piles of GoId-Fattest Cow I'm
the World.

Mammoth steamshfp-A 500 900 Pound
the World.
City OF Rome, which will be the largest
and finest merchant vessel in the world,
is now being built at Barrow, England.
She will ply between Liverpool and
New York. Her length of keel will be
54h feet, and length over all $40 feet,
with other dimensions in proportion.
Her measurement will be $500 tons. or
over 1900 tons larger than either the
City of Berlin or the Arizona, and 500
tons larger than the Servia, the new
steamship, which will be completed
this fall. She will be over four-ffths
the size of the Great Eastern. The
engines of the City Of Rome will be of
$500 horsepower. with six cylinders,
three of which are high-pressure and
three low-pressure. There will be
eight boilers, heated by forty-eight fur
naces, and the vessel can be propelled at
the rate of eighteen and half knots an
hour. She will carry four large masts
and three smoke tunnels. There will
be 275 revolving chairs at the saloon
tables, and the staterooms will easily
accommodate three hundred first-class
passengers. A drawing-room, which
can be occupied by one hundred ladies
at once, will be placed on the deck, i'm
mediately over the saloon. The smok-
ing-room will be above the drawing
room, and will accommodate one hun
dred smokers at once. The saloon will
contain six bathrooms. There will
be room on board for almost any
number Of steerage passengers, and
space for an enormous quantity of
freight in the hold. The City Of Rome
is to be built of steel, with double
bottom and eleven bulkheads. She
will have the highest classification of
any vessel in the Liverpool red-book
and in the British Lloyds.
The largest stone quarried in 5000
years was used in the construction of
the obelisk to the memory of Major
General John Ellis Wool, which has
Just been exposed to public view in
Troy, n. Y. General Wool was a dis
tinguished soldier Of the war of 1912,
having been shot through both thighs
at the stoTming of Queenstown, and
having covered himself with glory at
the battle of Plattsburg. two years
later. Moreover, as second in COM
mand he helped Taylor at Buena Vista.
General Wool left $50, 600 for monu-
ment TO his wife and himself. The late
William Cullen Bryant became inter-
ested in the monument scheme, and be-
fore his death wrote the inscriptions for
it. The stone for the immense shaft,
weighing about 5000 pounds, was
obtained from Vinalhaven, on Fox
Island, Maine. Its transportation to
Troy cost about s., 600. The huge mono
lith was placed by skillful engineering
on barge and towed through tempest
e.. hn I..1z
feared quite often that the stone had
sought the bottom of the sea. The
monument, as it now stands, seventy
five feet in height, on the summit of an
eminence. may be seen for many miles
around Troy.
Perhaps the largest payment made in
gold coin since the revival took place in
Chicago recently. Then one of the
banks Of that city paid out in settle
ment OF its clearing house balances
81 $50, 600. OF this sum Si.500, 900 was
in gold coin. The coin was received
from New York in twenty kegs, each
keg weighing three hundred pounds
and containing $4,000. The transpor-
tation through the streets was attended
by five men to handle and guard the
treasure. BY an arrangement between
the banks and the clearing house Off
GERS the gold was delivered directly to
the several creditor banks. By this ar
rangement the transportation and hand
ling were simplified. The coin was
sent thither by Jim Keene in payment
for wheat, and with other remittances
of like character, will largely enter into
general circulation in Chicago.
7. Lannan, who handled all the cattle
at the Centennial, is now a dealer at
Salt Lake City. Utah, where he now
exhibits the carcass of 1.-The biggest
bovine in the world" The animal was
heifer. She looked to be approaching
elephantine greatness, and 50 thick had
! the fat become on the animal that she
could scarcely walk. and her hide was
stretched to its utmost tension. She
weighed before the slaughter over z, 500
pounds, and after dressing over 300.
The butchers OF Salt Lake City are OF the
opinion that she was the fattest COW in
| the world. Some idea of her vastness
can be formed from the knowledge that
on the thinnest part of.the rib measured
the fat was seven inches in thickness.
There comes from Duluth, Mimi, an
authenticated yarn about pig which
had just been aroused from n sleep of
lag days. The pig belongs TO Miner
Eblerhausen, of Little Bay. The animal
slept so soundly that its owner built a
3 all around it, and on tearing the wall
do sn recently he heard gr,Int on the
inside. Its appearance when taken out
was rather funny. The ribs on each
side seemed to have met. The hams
had vanished and only the hip joints
stood up, gaunt and angular. The
vertebrH conld be counted and the ears
dropped from the large skull. The eyes
looked ont of the deep bony sockets
with ,,rofoundly melancholy express
sion, as though their owner han been
in the other world and had found there
espe, tally hard times.