Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1882-09-27
Some Big Things.

the Himalayas, the mean elevation
being estimated from 10000 to $4,000
feet.
Kentucky has no great fresh water
lakes, but it has great whisky distil-
leries, and the natives do not feel the
loss of fresh water much.
The biggest record in six days 60
as-you-please race is that made by
George Hazel, who covered 600I miles
in Madison Square Garden on March
4th of this year.
The largest diamond cutting house
is in Amsterdam, where they employ
400 men. The famous Kohinoor dia-
mond was cut there. The cutters
make from 81 to s12, and even sl4 n
day.
The largest suspension bridge will
be the one now building between
Brooklyn and this city. The length
Of the main span is ,595 feet 6 inches.
the entire length of the bridge is
$3.50 feet.
The Pennsylvania Railroads new
locomotive Jumbo has seven-feet driv-
ing wheels, and has drawn train from
Philadelphia to Jersey City, a distance
of ninety miles, in eighty minutes.
Jumbo is the largest elephant in the
civilized world. He is 1 ! feet 6 inches
in height The measurement of his
ears when outspread is ID feet, and he
can reach upward 26 feet with his
trunk.
Probably the biggest feet are those
Of Chicago girl named Lizzie Mertz.
They are said to measure l6! inches
each. it is reported that she once
kicked a young man and fractured his
spine.
Fortress Monroe is the largest sin.
gle fortifcation in the world. 1t has
already cost the government $4,000.
900. The water battery is considered
one Of the finest military works in
the world.
The loftiest volcano is Popocatapetl
Smoking mountain), thirty five miles
southwest of Pueblo, Mexico. 1t is
1874 feet above the sea level, has n
crater three miles in circumference
and 900 feet deep.
The longest span Of wire is used for
telegraph in India over the river
Kistnah, between Bezorah and Sec.
tanagrum. 1t is more then 5000 feet
long and is stretched between two
hills, each 1920 feet high.
The largest university is Oxford, in
Oxford, England. 1t consists oi
twenty-five colleges and five halls
Oxford was the seat of learning il
the time of Edward the Confessor. II
claims to have been founded by Al
fred
The largest ship is the Great East
ern. She is $50 feet long, SO feet broad
and 60 feet deep, being 22,927 burden
1875 gross and 1884 net register
She was built at Millwall, on the
Thames, and was launched Jan. 81
1857.
The most extensive park is Deer
Park, in the environs Of Copenhagen
Denmark. The enclosure contains
about 1920 acres, and is divided by q
small river. The largest pleasure
ground in this country is Fairmount
Park, Philadelphia, which contains
81 40 acres.
The largest body of fresh water on
the globe is Lake Superior. 1t is 40t
miles long, 100 miles wide at its great
est breadth, and has an area of $4,000
square miles. It's mean depth is sale
to be 200 feet, and its greatest deptl
about 900 fathoms. It's surface is 635
feet above the sen.
The largest tunnel in the world i
that of st. Gothard, OH the line o
railroad between Lucerine and Milan
The summit of the tunnel is 900 feet
below the surface at Audermatt, anC
$500 feet beneath the peak of kastel
horn, of the St. Gothard group. Th
tunnel is 26l feet wide, and 10 feet II
inches from the floor to the crown o
the arched roof 1t is 81 miles long
1g miles longer than the Mt. Cent
tunnel.
The most extensive cavern is tin,
Mammoth Cave, in Edmondson Coun
ty, Ky. 1t is near Green River, 81,
miles from Cave City, and about
twenty-eight miles from Bowlin,
Green. The cave consists of sue
cession of irregular chambers, some
Of which are large, situated on differ
ent levels. Some Of these are trav
ersed by navigable branches of tn,
subterranean Echo River. Blind fisl
are found in its waters.
The largest trees arc the mammoth
trees in California. One Of grov,
in Tulare County, according to meas
urement made by members of the Stat
Geological Survey, was shown to be 27
feet high, 106 feet in circumference,
at base, and rs feet at point II fee
above the ground. Some of the tree
are 376 feet high and "a feet in diam
eter. Some of the largest that hav'
been felled indicate an age Of iron
1000 to $500 years.
The largest inland sea is the Caspi
an, lying between Europe and Asia
Its greatest length is $50 miles, it
greatest breadth 270 miles and it
area 10000 square miles. Grea
Salt Lake in Utah, which may b
properly termed an inland sea, !
about 80 miles long, and has a vary
ing breadth of from 20 to 20 miles
It's surface is 1920 feet above the sea
whereas the surface Of the Caspian !
"a feet below the ocean level.