The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1886-09-17
THE S1ATU. OF LIBERTY.
Comparisons which WIN Convey Co the
Reader Some Idea 1T TIA Rlse

Comparisons Which WIN Convey Co the
Render Some Idea II TIA Size.
Tho face Of Liberty, which hos sublime
expression, has been placed upright OH a
frame near the building 30 that visitors may
zee It. It Ii eleven feet four inches hick-
that Is from tho chin to the tiara which shc
will wear about her brow. A man standing
on another mans shoulders would hardly bo
able to look over the top of her head. The
face Ia made Of six pieces Of bronze, rivcte1
together with nails, which show plainly to
one twenty feet away, but which at a greater
distance arc invisible.
lAberty's fingers are scattered about In con-
fusion on the floor of the workshop and lool;
like joints Of stovepipe Her middle finger is
six feet six inches long and SO large that fat
man might easily crawl into it and there
conceal himself. Her feet would make a
Chicago girl chuckle. They arc ten feet
across. The two feet stand in large fenced
Enclosure near the fort and cover consider
able ground. At least twenty people might
step on the goddess corns at once
The torch which Liberty will hold in dir Is
colossal In size Forty people might stand in
1t at once. The rim about its upper edge is =
substantial iron railing four feet high. Not
far from tho torch stands the golden fame
which forever is to burn in it. This artistic
piece Of work, which looks like sinuous flame
turned into bronze by some enchantment, Is
nearly six feet high and about four feet in
diameter.
The statue will be taller than the lofty
pedestal. It will be two and half times as
high as the queen Of Brobdingnag. The peo-
pie among whom Gulliver was SO cute mani
kin and so great curiosity were sixty feet
high. Swift multiplied the size of ordinary
men and objects by ten. Liberty is about $50
feet high, and to her the colossal queen Of
Brobdingnag, who ate with knife as long as
a scythe and drank out of cup as large as
hogshead, would be as dwarf two feet four
inches high would be to q man six feet high.
If Gulliver's little nurse, Gluadaclitch, who
was years old and 40 feet high, and small
for her age, had been proportionally as large
as the Statue of Liberty she would have been
100 feet high, and small for her age. The mis-
chievous dwarf, the smallest in the kingdom,
who was only 80 feet high, would be to the
Statue of Liberty as dwarf foot ~ inches
high would be to us.
To be of the same comparative size as the
statue the rat in Brobdingnag, which was as
big as mastiff, would have to be as big as
COW; the mastiff, equal in bulk to four ele-
plants, would have to be as big as ten ele-
plants; Jumbo would be no larger to the
statue than pug dog. To retain his reputa-
ton of being the largest elephant in the world
he would have to be 300 feet high. The colos-
sal elephant at Coney Island is no bigger be-
side the statue than horse is beside man.
The Washington monument is no bigger to
the statue of liberty than shaft IS feet high
in country burying ground would be to an
ordinary person We appear to the statue as
a man little less than 8 inches high would
appear to us--New York journal.