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

The man with the heaviest ,nind-Henr
Ward Beecher.
The greatest philosopher IN Wall stree
Uncle Rufus Hatch.
England derived last year S2,760,00
from the duly on carriage.
The three biggest railroad ki-Ss-W
ID. Vanderbilt, Jay Go-lc and Russel
Sage.
The greatest aavy e. aho orld Is lat O
England. The mos. invisible one IS tht
United States navy.
The biggest range of mountains Is III,
Himaiayas, the main elevation being esti
mated from 10000 to $4,000 feet.
Two daughters of Cassius NJ. Clay, o.
Kentucky, are delegates TO the National
Woman Suffrage convention at Omaha.
Seventeen lads in New York were arrest
ed On Sunday evening Lash for annoying
George Francis Train in Madison square
The Rothsehilds 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 tnree weeks, tho tolls being
e96,00O.
Kentucky has no great fresh water lakes,
bat u has great whisky distileries, and
the natives do not feel the loss o. fresh
water much &
The following IS going the rounds Of the
papers; "a country judge permitted
himself 10 BIO swindled by bunko men in,
Minneapoli8.'
The biggest royal eater since tie death
of the Emperor Maximinus is CetFwayo,
king OF the Hnlas. He ate thirteen pounds
of steak for Il dinner
The largest diamond cutting house IS in
Amsterdam, where they employ 400 men.
The famous Kohinoor diamond was cut
there. The cutters make from ST to SO.
and even $34 a day.
AIr. John Sayer Of Danielsville, Ga,
recently killed a large hawk. II measured
4 feet 20 inches from tip to tip of its wings
and - inches from the tip of the front to
the tip Of The back claw.
The pennsylvania railroads new loco
motive, Jumbo, hos sevon-feet driving
wheels, and has drawn }rain from Phila
deiphia TO Jersey City, = distance OF ninety
miles, IN eighty minutee
Jumbo Is tho largest elephant IN the
civilized world. He is Il feet 6 inches IN
height. The measurement of his ears
when oUtspread is IS feet and he can reach
onward 26 feet With his +euDl,
The largest suspension bridge will be the
one now building between Brooklyn and |
New York city. The length of the main |
span IS 1876 feet 6 inches. The entire |
length OF the bridge is $3.50 feet.
Fortress Monroe is the largest single
fertilization IN the world. 1t has already
cost the government over S3,090,000. The
water battery is considered one Of the
finest military works in the world.
The longest span of wire is used for a
telegraph in India over the river Kistnan
between Bezorah and Sectanagrum Il is
more than 5000 feet long, and is stretched
between two hills, each 1900 feet high.
The Hottest active volcano is Popocata-
peH smoking mountain thirty FIVE miles
southwest Of Pueblo, Mexico. N is
I7,184 feet above the sea level, has a crater
three miles in circumference and l 900 feet
deep.
A report from the secretary of the int
r1or 10 the house OF representatives dated
March 20, 1882, shows that over 13O, OGO, GOO
acres OF land have been conditionaIlv
granted 20 states and corporations to aid
in the buildin;5 of railroads which haze rot
been built.
The largest university is Oxford, IN Ok
ford, England. 1t consists of Twenty-Five
colleges and five halls. Oxford was Tho
seat Of learning in the time of Edward the
Confessor. It claims 70 have been founded |.
by Alfred.
The largest ship is the Great Eastern.
She is $50 feet long, eighty three feet broad :
and slxty-nine feet deep, being 22-927
burden, 1875 gross and 1884 net regis i
.er. She was bulls at MillWali On the l.
Thames, and was launched Jan. 81, 1857.
The 190,oo9ooO, acres of land granted 10 | s
allroads for their construction. makes :
erritory Of over 100000 square miles.
mich Is greater than that of the states of t
lew York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana a
nd Illinois, and every acre of it has beent
agally forfeited. IL
The largest body OF fresh water on the
lobe IS Lake Superior. Il is 400 miles |
ong,l60 miles wide at its greatest breadth. |
nd has an area of $4,000 square miles. Its
lean depth is said to be 200 feet, and its
reafest depth about 900 fathoms. It's
urface is 635 feet above the level of The =
"a.
Mr. Joseph Baker of Lancaster, Pa. has t
tomato that measures II inches in cir .
Inference, 5115 inches IN diameter. and 1
eighs "a pounds. Four tomatoes very Q
early as large as This one have grown on
lie same stalk, and tho united weight Of
Re FIVE is 10.4 pounds They are OF the +
atterson variety.
Gounod's new work, ''The Redempt ion,s {
itten for the recent Birmingham festi-
7, is divided into prologue and three
grts. The prologue illustrates the crea-l
I taa3 ov, 141& II,