Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-09-15
GLOBELETS.

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The man with the heaviest mind Henry
Ward Beecher.
The greatest philosopher in Wall street
Uncle Rufus Hatch.
England derived hast year $2,760,o0(
from the duty on carriages.
The three biggest railroad kngs-W
Il. Vanderbilt, Jay Gould and Russell
Sage.
The greatest navy in the world is hat OF
England The most invisible one IS the
United States navy.
The biggest range of mountains is the
Himalayas, the main elevation being esti-
mated from 10000 to $4,000 feet.
Two daughters of Cassius M. Clay, OF
Kentucky, are delegates to the National
Woman Suffrage convention at Omaha.
Seventeen lads in New York were arrest
ed On Sunday evening last for annoying
George Francis Train in Madison square.
The Rothschilds gave the British troops
in Egypt twelve tons of tobacco and 5000
pipes, the khedive renting the customs
duties.
One hundred British men-of-war and
transports passed through the Suez canal
in the space of three weeks, the tolls being
e96,000.
Kentucky has no great fresh water lakes,
but it has great whisky distilleries, and
the natives 30 rot feel the loss Of fresh
water much.
The following IS going the rounds of the
papers: "A country judge permitted
himself TO be swindled by bunko men in
Miuneapolis.''
The biggest royal eater since the death
of the Emperor Maximinus is Cetywayo,
king CT the Zulus. He ate thirteen pounds
OF steak for q dinner.
The largest diamond cutting house is ia
Amsterdam, where they employ 400 men.
The famous Kohinoor diamond was cut
there. The cutters make from 81 to S12
and even $14 day.
Mr.. John Sayer of Danielsville, Ga,
recently killed large hawk. It measured
feet 10 inches from tip to tip of its wings
and s. inches from the tip of the front to
the tip Of the back claw.
The Pennsylvania railroads new loco
motive, Jumbo, has seven-feet driving
wheels, and has drawn train from Phila-
delphia TO jersey City, distance of ninety
miles, in eighty minutes.
Jumbo is the largest elephant IN the
civilized world. He is II feet inches in
height. The measurement of his ears
when outspread is Is feet and he can reach
Upward Is feet with his trunk.
The largest suspension bridge will be the
one now building between Brooklyn and
New York city. The length of the main
span is 1856 feet inches. The entire
length of the bridge is $3.50 feet.
Fortress Monroe is the largest single
fortification IN the world. It has already
cost the government over $3,OO0,OGO The
water battery is considered one of the
finest military works in the world.
The longest span of wire is used for
telegraph IN India over the river Kistnah
between Bezorah and Sectanagrum It is
more than 5000 feet long, and is stretched
between two hills, each 1900 feet high.
The Hottest active volcano is Popocata-
petl Smoking mountain,) thirty FIVE miles
southwest of Pueblo, Mexico. It is
1874 feet above the sea level, has crater
three miles IN circumference and ZOO feet
deep.
A report from the secretary of the inte-
rior to the house of representatives dated
March %, 1882, shows that over $50 100000
acres OF land have been conditionally
granted 10 states and corporations to aid
in the building of railroads which have net
been built.
The largest university is Oxford, IN Ok
ford, England. It consists of twenty-five
colleges and five halls. Oxford was the
seat Of learning in the time of Edward the
Oonfessor. It claims to have been founded
by Alfred.
The largest ship is the Great Eastern.
She is $50 feet long:eighty- three feet broad
and sixty nine feet deep, being 22;927
burden, 1875 gross and 13, 344 net regis
ter. She was built at Millwall on the
Thames, and was launched Jan. 81, 1867.
The 13O,o0o,oo0 acres OF land granted to
railroads for their construction, makes a
territory Of over 100000 square miles,
which is greater than that of the states of
New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana
and Illinois, and every acre of it has been
egally forfeited.
The largest body of fresh water on the
globe is Lake Superior. 1t is 400 miles
iong,160 miles wide at its greatest breadth,
and has an area of $4,000 square miles. It's
mean depth is said to be 200 feet, and its
greatest depth about 800 fathoms. It's
surface is 635 feet above the level of the
sea.
Mr.. Joseph Baker of Lancaster, Pa, has
q tomato that measures II inches in cir.
conference, So inches in diameter, and
weighs "a pounds. -Four tomatoes very
nearly as large as this one have grown on
the same stalk, and the united weight OF
the FIVE is 1G4 pounds They are OF the
Patterson variety. - ~
Gounod's new work, The Redemption
written for the recent Birmingham festi-
val, is divided into a prologue and three
parts. The prologue illustrates the crea-