The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-10-12
More Big Things.


Probably tho biggest feet are those of
a. Chicago girl named Lizzie NIertz.
Ihey are said TO measure l64 inches each.
Il is reported that she once kicked -
young man and fractured his spine.
The loftiest active volcano is Ponocate.
petl (smoking mountain(, tbirtv.fve
miles southwest of Pueblo, Mexico. II
| is 1874 feet above the sea level. md has
crater three miles in circumference and
900 feet deep.
The largest university is Oxford, in Ok
ford, England, 1t consists of twenty-five
colleges and five halls. Oxford was the
seat OF learning in the time of Edward
The ConfcssOr. 1t claims TO have ber,,
founded by Alfred.
NIT; Jacob G. Rubb, near Camp Hill.
Fla, has corn stalk that measures ii
leet . inches, and is not done growing
yet: He says that number Of stalks
vii measure If feet. and that the whole
field will average from - to l3 feet.
The largest ship is the Great Eastern.
she is $50 feet long, 83 feet broad, and
90 feet deep, being 22,927 tons, burden,
1919 gross, and 1884 net register
She was built at Millwall, on the
Thames, and was launched January 81.
1857 -
The longest span of wire is used for a
telegraph i'll India over the river Kisthah
between Bezorah and Sectanagrum. 1t
IL more than six thousand feet long, and
ls stretched between two hills, each ono
Thousand two hundred feet high.
Inc most extensive park is Deer Park,
IN the cnvlrons of Copenhagen, Den
marx. The enclosure contains about
4,2o0 acres, and is divided by small
river. The largest pleasusc ground in
this country is Fairmount Park, Phila.
delphia, which contains 2,74O acres.
Orange county, Now York, and Sussex
county, New Jersey, make moro apple
jack in one year than any other two
counties in the United States Last wear
l2o,ooo gallons were made, and the Gov
ernment got 100000 revenue. This year
the estimate is 10000 gallons.
Inc largest body of fresh water on tho
globe is Lake Superior. 1t is 400 miles
long. l6O miles wide at its greatest
breadth, and has an area of $4,000
square miles. Its mean depth is said to
oe 20O feet, and its greatest depth about
9o0 fnthoms. Its surface is 635 feet
above the sea.
MIR. Joseph Baker, of Lancaster, Pa,
has tomato that measures II inches in
circumference, 81 inches in diameter, and
weighs two and quarter pounds. -Four
tomatoes nearly rs large as this one have
grown OH the same stalk, aud tho united
weight OF the five is ten and quarter
pounds. They nre Of the Paterson Va
riety.
The largest tunnel in the world il that
OF st. Gothard, on the line of railroad
between l.ucerne and Milan. The sum
nit of tho tunnel is 800 feet below the
surface at Audermntt, and 5000 feet bo-
meath the peak at kastehorn, of the St.
tiothard group. The tunnel is 261 feet
wide, and 10 feet. 10 inches from the floor
to the crown of tho arched roof Itis94
miles long, IL miles longer than the Mt.
Gents tunnel.
The most extensive cavern is the Mann
moth Cave, in Edmondson county, Ken
lucky. 1t is near Green river, six miles
from Cave City, and about twenty. eight
miles from Bowling Green. The cave
consists Of succession Of irregular
chambers, sumo of which are large, situ.
ated on different levels Some of these
are traversed by navigable branches of
the subterranean Echo river. Blind nsh
are found in its waters.