Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-06-28
GREATEST THINGS ON EARTH.

The highest range of mountains is the
Himalayas, the mean elevation being esti-
mated at from 16, 600 to Is 900 feet.
The loftiest mountain is Mount Ever
est, or Gunisanker, of the Himalaya
range, having an elevation of 5,002 feet
above the sea level.
The largest theater is the new opera
house in Paris 1t covers nearly three
acres of ground Its cubic mass is 4 ,287,
600 feet. It costs about 100, 100000
francs.
The largest suspension bridge will be
the now building between New York
and Brooklyn. The length of the main
span is 1896 feet 6 inches; the entire
length of the bridge, $3.50 feet
The loftiest active volcano is Popocata-
petl-' smoking mountain '-thirty-fve
miles southwest of Pueblo, Mexico 1t is
1874 feet above the sea level, and has
crater three miles in circumference and
1000 feet deep.
The largest island in the world, which
is also regarded as a continent is Austria
liza. 1t is $500 miles in length from east
to west, and measures 1850 miles from
north to south. Its area is 1884, ,287
square miles
The longest span of wire in the world
is used for telegraph in India, over the
river Kistnah, between Bezorah and Sec
tanagrund, 1t is more than 5000 feet
long and is stretched between two hills,
each of which is /, 200 feet Ugh.
The largest ship in the world is the
Great Eastern. She is $50 feet long, 83
feet broad and 60 feet deep, being 22,927
tons burden, 1885 gross and 13, 334 net
register. She was built at Millwall, on
the Thames, and was launched January
81, 1857.
The largest university is Oxford, in
England, in the city of the same name,
ifty-iye miles from London. 1t consists
of twenty one colleges and five halls.
Oxford was a seat of learning as early as
the time of Edward the Confessor. Uni
versity college claims to have been found
ed by Alfred.
The largest body of fresh water on the
globe is lake Superior-400 miles long,
160 miles wide at the greatest breadth,
and having an area of 81, 900 square miles.
It's mean depth is said to be 160, and its
greatest depth about 200 fathoms. It's
surface is about 635 feet above the level
of the sea.
The most extensive park is Deer Park,
in the environs of Copenhagen, Denmark.
The inclosure contains about 200 acres
and is divided by small river The
largest pleasure ground in this country,
and one of the largest in the world, is
Paramount Park, Philadelphia, which
contains 2, ,740 acres
The biggest cavern is the Mammoth
Cave, in Edmondson county, Ky. It is
near Cave City, and about twenty-eight
miles from Bowling Green, The cave
consists OF a succession of irregular
chambers, some of which are large, situa-
ted on different levels Some of these
are traversed by navigable branches of
the subterranean Echo river. Blind fish
are found in it's waters.
The largest tunnel in the world is that
of st. Gothard, on the line of railroad be-
tween Lucerne and Milan. The summit
of the tunnel is 900 feet below the sur
face at Audermatt,and $500 feet beneath
the peak of Kastelborn, of the st. Goth
hard group. The tunnel is 261s feet
wide, and 10 feet 10 inches from the floor
to the crown ofthe arched roof. It is 915
miles long-15s miles longer than the
Mt. Gents tunnel
The ,.ggest trees in the world are the
trees of California. One of a
grove in Tulare county, according to
made by members of the
State Geological Survey, was shown to be
276 feet high, 106 feet in circumference
at the base, and 76 feet at point 12 feet
above the ground. Some of the trees are
376 feet high and 35 feet in diameter.
Some of the largest trees that have been
felled indicate an age Of from 1000 to s.
900 years