The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-06-28
SOME BIe. THINGS.

SOM Big El2NNAatSs
The highest range of mountains is the
aimalayas, the mean elevation being esti-
mated from 10000 to $4,000 feet
The biggest royal eater siDcs the death
of the Emperor Maximinns is Cetewayo,
King of the Zulus. He ate thirteen
pounds of steak for dinner.
The greatest cornet player is Levy. He
measures fifty-six inches around the
chest, aud is said to have the largeat
lungs of any musician in the woTld.
The largest diamond cutting house Is
in Amsterdam, where they employ 400
men. The famous Knlinoor diamond
was cut there. The cutters make from 81
tn s12, and even S14 a day.
The largest suspension bridge will be
the one now building between Brooklyn
and New York. The length of the main
span is 1885 feet 6 inches. The entire
length of the bridge is $3.50 feet.
Mr.. John Sayer, of Danielsville, Ga,
recently killed large hawk. 1t meas
ured feet 10 inches from tip to tip of
its wings, and 81 inches from the tip of
the front to the tip of the back claw.
Jumbo is the largest elephant in the
civilized world. Tie is ii feet inches
in height. The measurement of his ears
when outspread is Is feet, and he can
reach upward &c feet with his trunk.
Probably the biggest feet are those of
a Chicago girl named Lizzie Mertz- They
are said to measure 164 inches each. 1t
is reported that she once kicked a young
man and fractured his spine.
Fortress Monroe is the largest single
fortification in the world. 1t has already
cost the Government over $4,000, 900.
The water battery is considered one of the
finest military works in the world.
The largest university is Oxford, in
Oxford, England. 1t consists of twenty
five colleges and five halls. Oxford was
the seat of learning in the time of Ed
ward the Confessor. It claims to have
been founded by Alfred.
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.
1 COuAIy 4NCM anu EOu5Sc4
county, New Jersey, make more applejack
in one year than any other two counties
in the United States. Last year I20, 600
gallons were made, and the Government
got 500, 900 revenue. This year the es-
innate is 10000 gallons.
The largest body of fresh water on the
| globe is Lake Superior. It is 400 miles
long, 160 miles wide at its greatest breadth,
and has an area of $4,000 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 inland sea is the Caspian,
lying between Europe and Asia. Its great
est length is 76o miles, its greatest breadth
-27o miles, and its area 10000 square
miles. Great Salt Lake in Utah, which
may be properly termed an inland sea,
. is about 80 miles long and has varying
breadth of from 20 to 25 miles. Its surface
is 1900 feet above the sea, whereas the
surface of the Caspian is "a feet below
the ocean level.
The largest empire in the world is that
of Great Britain, comprising 1867 ,65S
square miles, more than a sixth part oil
the land of the globe, and embracing
under its rule nearly sixth part of the
! population of the world. In territorial
J extent the United States ranks third
containing 3,5S0,242 square miles, in
Guiding Alaska; i'll population it rank:
! fourth with its $4,000, 600 people. Rus
, STA ranks second: $685., $40 square miles
The highest monolith is the obelisk al
karnak, Egypt. Karnak is ON the east
bank of the Nile, near Luxor, and occu.
pies part of the site of ancient Thebes
The obelisk is ascribed to Hatasu, sister oil
Pharaoh Thothmes II who reigned about
| 1Gl0 u 70 l. 60
its weight 400 tons. Its height, without
pedestal, is los feet 10 inches The
height of the obelisk in Central Park
. without pedestal, is 68 feet IL inches;
its weight about 16S tons.
The Chinese wall is the largest in the
world. 1t was built by the first Empe
ror of the Tain dynasty, about 800 Il. G..
as protection against Tartars. 1t tray
erses the northern boundary of China
and is carried over the highest hills
through the deepest valleys, across rivers
and every other natural obstacle. Its
> length is 1850 miles. Including q
parapet of 5 feet, the total height
, of the wall is 20 feet, thickness ct the
base % feet, and at the top 10 feet
Towers or bastions occur at intervals OF
! about 100 yards.
i Among the most remarkable natural
| CSAocS 10 L1ldI vi I1hSle NEST, On Cn6
J banks of Killarney, in Ireland, which re
peats bugle call until it seems to bt
sounded from hundred instruments; and
that on the banks IF the Naha, between
Bingen and Cobientz, which repeats a
sound seventeen times. The most re
markable artificial echo known is that in
the Castle of Simonetta, about two mile,
from Milan. 1t is occasinned hy the ex
, istence of two parallel walls of consider
able length. 1t repeats the report of. q
pistol sixty times.
, The largest bell in the world is the
great bell of Moscow, at the foot of the
. Kremlin. Its circumference at the bot
} tom is nearly 6S feet, and its height more
} than q feet. In its stoutest part it il
; % inches thick, and its weight has been
! computed to be 443, 772 pounds. 1t has
never been hung, and WAS probably cast
on the spot where it now stands. A piece
! Of the hell is broken off The fracture i
supposed 10 have hccn ctcisionts; ny
, water having been thrown upon ie when
! heated by the building erected over il
being on fire.