The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-07-14
GREATEST THINGS ON EARTH.

HE highest range of mountains is the
Hlmalayas, the mean elevation being es-
tlmated at from 16, 900 to Is, 900 feet.
The Hottest mountain is Mount Ever
est OF Guarisanker, of the Himalaya
range, having an elevation of %, O02 feet
above the sea level.
The largest theater is the new Opera
House in Paris. 1t covers nearly three
acres of ground. Its cubic mass is A.
287, 900 feet 1t cost about 0,0OO, 900
francs.
The largest suspension bI dge will be
the one now building between New York
and Brooklyn. The length of the main
span is 1916 feet 8 inches; the entire
length of the bridge, $3.50 feet.
The loftiest active volcano is Popocat
apetl-' smoking mountain" -thirty-fiv,,
miles southwest of Pueblo, Mexico. Il
is II, 784 feet above the sea level, and
has crater three miles in circumference
and l 200 feet deep.
The largest island In the world, which
is also regarded as a continent. is Aus
tralia. 1t is $500 miles in length from
east to west, and measures 1850 miles
from north to south. Its area is 1884,
2o7 square miles.
TEE longest span of wire in the world
is used for telegraph in India, over the
river Kistnah, between Bezorah and
Sectanagrund. It is more than 5000
feet long, and is stretched between two
hills, each of which is 1000 feet high.
The largest ship in the world is the
Great Eastern. She is $50 feet long. SO
feet broad and go feet deep, being %, 927
tons burden, Is, 915 gross and IL, 1874 net
register. She was built at Millwall, on
the Thames, and was launched Jan.
81, 1857.
The largest university is Oxford, in
England, in the city of the same name,
fifty-fve miles from London. It con-
sists of twenty-one colleges and five
halls. Oxford was seat of learning as
early as the time of Edward the Confess
sor. University College claims to have
been founded by Alfred.
The largest body of fresh water on the
globe is Lake Superior-400 miles long.
100 miles wide at its greatest breadth,
and having an area of $4,000 square
miles. Its mean depth is said to be 100.
and it's greatest depth about 200 fathoms.
Its surface is about 635 feet above the
level of the sea.
The most extensive park is Deer Park,
in the environs of Copenhagen, Den
mark. The inclosure contains about
4,20O acres, and is divided by small
river. The largest pleasure ground in
this country, and one of the largest in
the world, is. Paramount Park, Philadel-
phia, which contains 2, 740 acres.
The biggest cavern is the Mammoth
cave, in Edmondson county, KY. It is
near Green river, six miles from Cave
City, and about twenty eight miles from
Bowling Green. The cave consists of q
succession of irregular chambers, some
OF which are large, situated on different
lcvols Some of thoso aro broversed by
navigable branches of the subterranean
Echo river. Blind fish are found in its
waters.
THE largest tunnel in the world is that
of st. Gothard, on the line of railroad
between Lucerne and Milan. The sum-
nit of the tunnel is 900 feet below the
surface at Audermatt, and 5000 feet be-
meath the peak of Kastelhorn, of the st.
Gothard group. The tunnel is 261 feet
wide, and 10 feet 10 inches from the
floor to the crown Of the arched roof.
1t is 81 miles long-1s miles longer than
the Mt. Gents tunnel.
The biggest trees in the world are the
mammoth trees of California. One of a
grove in Tulare county, according to
measurement made by members of the
State Geological Survey, was shown to
be 276 feet high, 106 feet in circumfer-
ence at the base, and rs feet al point
- feet shove the ground. Sonic of the
trees are 376 feet high and 81 feet in
diameter. Some of the largest trees
that have been felled indicate an age OF
from 1000 to $500 years.