Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-09-28
Big Things.

| Fortress Monroe is the largest single
fertilization in the world 1t has already
cost the government over So. DOC. OOO.
The water battery is considered one of
the finest military works in the world.
The Hottest active volcano Is Popo-
catepeu Smoking mountain, thirty-fve
miles southwest of Pueblo, Mexico. II
is II, 1874 feet above the sea level, and has
crater three miles in circumference and
1000 feet deep.
The largest university is Oxford. in
Oxford, England. Itconsists of twenty
five colleges and five halls. Oxford was
the seat of learning in the time of Ed.
ward the C0nfessor It claims to have
been founded by Alfred.
The largest ship is the Great Eastern.
She is $50 feet long, S. feet beam, and
60 feet deep, being 1927 tons burden
| 1876 gross and 1884 net register.
She was built at Mllwall, on the Thames.
| and was launched January 81, 1857.
The most extensive park is Deer Park.
in the environs of Copenhagen, Den
mark. The Enclosure contains about
4, 200 acres, and is divided by a small
river. The largest pleasure ground in
this country is Paramount Park, Phila-
delphia, which contains 2, 740 acres.
The largest body of fresh water on the
globe is Lake Superior. 1t is 400 miles
long, 100 miles wide at its greatest
breadth, and has an area of 80, 900 square
miles. It's mean depth is said to be 200
feet, and its greatest depth about 900
fathoms. Its surface is 635 feet above
the sea.
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 6 800 feet be-
meath TIE peak at Kastelhorn, of the st.
| GothaTd group. The tunnel is twenty
six and half feet wide, and nineteen
feet ten inches from the floor to the
crown of the aEched roof It is nine and
half miles long, one and five-eighths
miles longer than the Mt Gents tunnel.
The most extensive cavern is the Nam
moth Cave, in Edmondson county. Ken
lucky. 1t is near Green river, SIX miles
from Cave City. and twenty.eight miles
from Bo Wing Green. The cave consists
| of succession of irregular chambers.
some of which are large, situated on diff
ferent levels Some of these are trav-
ersed by pavigable branches of the sub
teTTlnean Zero river. Blind fish are
found in its waters.
The largest trees are the mammoth
trees in California. One Of a grove in
Tulare county, according to measure
ment made by members of the State
Geological Survey, was shown to be 276
feet high, 100 feet in circumference at
base, and rs feet at point twelve feet
above the ground. Some of the trees
are 376 feet high and 81 feet in diameter.
Some of the largest that have been felled
indicate an age Of from 1900 to $500
years.
The largest inland sea is the Caspian,
lying between Europe and Asia. Its
greatest length is 760 miles, its greatest
breadth 270 miles, and its area 1870, 600
square miles. Great Salt Lake in Utah,
which may be properly termed an inland
sea, is about ninety miles long, and has
varying breadth of from twenty to
twenty five miles, Its surface is 1900
feet above the sea, whereas the surface
Of the Caspian is eighty-four feet below
the ocean level.
The largest empire in the world is that
of Great Britain, comprising 1851, COS
square miles, more than a sixth part of
the land of the globe, and embracing
under It's rule nearly sixth part of the
population of the world. In ter
ritOrial extent the United States
ranks third, containing $3.50, 242
square miles, including Alaska lin popu-
lation it ranks fourth, with it's so, 900, 900
people. Russia ranks second, 1852, $40
square miles.
The highest monolith is the obelisk at
Karnak, Egypt. Karnak is on the cast
bank of the Nile, near Luxor, and occu-
pies a part of the site of am ancient
Thebes. The obelisk is ascribed to Hat
asu, sister of Pharaoh Thothmes III.
who reIgued about 1900 B. c. Its whole
length is 1879 feet, its weight 400 tons.
Its height, without pedestal, is 108 feet 10
inches. The height of the obelisk in
Central Park, without pedestal. is 68
feet II inches; its weight about 1863 tons.
The Chinese wall is the largest wall in
the world. 1t was built by the first EN-
perOr of the Tain dynasty, about 22O B.
| o., as protection against TaTtars 1t
| traverses the northern boundary of
| China, and is carried over the highest
hills, through the deepest valleys, across
rivers and every other natural obstacle.
Its length is 1850 miles, Including a
| parapet of feet, the total height of the
wall is20 feet, thickness at the base %
feet, and at the top Is feet. Towers or
bastions occur at intervals of 100 wards.
The largest library is the Blbliotheque
National in Paris, founded by Louis
XIV. 1t contains 100000 volumes,
300, 600 pamphlets, 175, 900 manuscripts,
100000 maps and charts, and 10000
coins and medals. The collection of
engravings exceeds 1 100000 contained
in some 10000 volumes. The building
which contains these treasures is situated
on the Rue Richelieu. It's length is $40
feet, its breadth 1870 feet. The largest
| library in New York in respect of sepa-
rate works is the Astor. About 10000
volumes are on its shelves
The largest bell ia the world is the
great bell of Moscow, at the foot of the
hremlln. Its circumference at the bot
tom is nearly sixty eight feet and it's
height more than twenty one feet. In
Its stoutest part 1t IS twenty-three inches
| thick, and its weight has been computed
to be AS, 772 pounds. 1t has never been
hung, and was probably cast on the spot
where it now stands. A piece of the
bell is broken off. The fracture is sup
posed to have been occasioned by water
having been thrown upon 1t when heated
by the building erected over it being on
fire
The largest cathedral in the world is
st. Peters in Rome. From the laying
Of the foundation in 1850 until its dedi-
cation, no years were consumed in its
erection; and if we include the work
done under Plus VI, three and half
centuries passed before it was completed,
during which time forty-three Popes
reigned The dimensions Of the church
are: Length of the interior, 6134 feet;
OF transom from wall to wall, 4464 feet
height of nave, 1924 feet; of side aisles,
46 feet; width of nave, a. 80 feet; of side
aisles, 334 feet; circumference of pillars
which support the dome, 253 feet. The
height of the dome from the pavement
to The base of the lantern is 4O5 feet-to
the top of the cross, 448 feet. The dome
is encircled and strengthened by six
bands of lion. A stairway leads to the
roof, broad and easy enough to allow a
horse and team to ascend. The annual
cost of keeping the church in repair is
30, 900 scudi.