The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-01-26

CpSS.
Something possessed a mild-looking
book agent to put brick in his coat
tail pocket, and the way a Devonshirc
street broker hurt his toes on it was
simply agoDizing Il Boston Post
The pensive mule is not usually re.
garded as susceptible to pathetic emo
tions. And yet he occasionally drops
a muleteer.
Fortress Monroe is the largest single
fortification in the world. 1t has al
ready cost the Government over So,
100000. The water battery is consid.
cred one of the finest military works
IN the world.
The loftiest active volcano is Popo-
catepetl Smoking mountain), thirty
five miles southwest of Pueblo, Mexico.
1t is 17,784 feet above the sea level,
has crater three miles in circumfer.
ence and 1000 feet deep.
The longest span of wire is used for
a telegraph in India over the river
kistnah, between Bezorah and Sectan-
agrum. 1t is more than 5000 feet
long, and is stretched between two
hills, each l,2o0 feet high.
The largest university is Oxford, in
Oxford, England. 1t consists of twen-
ty-five colleges and FIVE halls. Oxford
was the seat of learning in the time of
Edward the Confessor. 1t claims to
have been founded by Alfred.
The largest ship is the Great East.
ern. She is ESQ feet long, SO feet broad,
and 60 feet deep, being 22,927 burden,
1875 gross and 1884 net register.
She was built at Milwall, 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 4,200 acres, and is divided by a
small river. The largest pleasure
ground in this country is Fairmount
Park, Philadelphia, which contains 2.
740 acres.
Orange County, New York. and
Sussex County, New Jersey, make
more applejack in one year than any
two counties in the United States.
Last year 100000 gallons were made,
aud the Government got 100000 rev.
enue. This year the estimate is 10000
gallons.
The largest body of fresh water on
the globe is Lake Superior. 1t is 400
miles long, 100 miles wide at its great
est BREADTH, and has an area of 32,-
900 square miles. Its mean depth is
said to be 200 feet, and its greatest
depth about 900 fathoms. Its surface
is 635 feet above the sea.
The largest tunnel in the world is
that of St Gothard, on the line of rail
road between Lucerue and Milan.
The summit of the tunnel is 900 feet
below the surface at Audermatt. and
$500 feet beneath the peak of Kastle
horn, of the st. Gothard group. The
tunnel Is 264 feet wide, and 10 feet
10 inches from the floor to the crown
of the arched roof. 1t is 81 miles long,
Il miles longer than the Mt. Gents tun-
mel
The most extensive cavern is the
Mammoth Cave, in Edmonson County,
Ky. 1t is near Green River, six miles
from Cave City, and about twenty
eight miles from Bowling Green. The
cave consists of a succession of irregu.
lar chambers, some of which are large.
situated on different levels. Some of
these are traversed by navigable branch
es of the subterranean Echo River
Blind fish are fouud in its waters.
WIDE AWAKE DELTA.
Messrs. Sargent Bros, druggists,
Delta, Ohio, in ordering a quantity of
Thomas Eclectric Oil, write that they
never sold anything that gave such
satisfaction in curing coughs,
colds, bronchitis, rheumatism, neura'-
gia, etc.
Tho largest trees are the mammoth
trees in California. One of a grove in
Tulare County, according to measure
ment made by members of the State
Geological Survey was shown to be
276 feet high, i06 feet in circumference
at base, and 76 feet at a point u feet
above the ground. Some of the trees
are 376 feet high and "a feet in diane
ter. Some of the largest that have
been felled indicate an age of from q
900 to $500 years.
The largest inland sea is the Caspian,
lying between Europe and Asia. Its
greatest length is 760 miles, its greate>t
breadth 27O miles, and its area $4,000
square miles. Great Salt Lake in
Utah, which may be properly termc
an inland sea, is about 90 miles long,
and has a varying breadth of from 20
to 25 miles. Its surface is 1920 feet
above the sea, whereas the surface Of
the Caspian is S4 feet above the ocean
level.
The largest empire in the world is
that OF Great Britain, comprising S,557,.
65S square miles, more than n sixth
part of the land of the globe, and EN-,
racing under its rule nearly sixth
part of the population of the world,
In territorial extent the United States
ranks third, containing 3,5S0,242
square miles, including Alaska in
population it ranks fourth with its s0,.
100000 people Russia ranks second;
S,352,94O square miles,
Among the most remarkable natural
echoes is that of Eagles Nest, on the
banks of Killarney, in Ireland, which
repeats bugle call until it seems TO
be sounded from hundred instruments,
and that on the banks of the Naha,
between Bingen and Coblentz, which
repeats a sound seventeen times. The
most remarkable artificial echo known
is that in the Castle of Simonetta, about
two miles from Milan 1t is occasionea
by the existence of two parallel walls
of considerable length, 1t repeats the
report of pistol sixty times.
NOTING THE EFFECTS.
r. Gibbs, of Buffalo, N. Y, writes