Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-10-24
SOME IMMENSE THINGS.
A Few of the Great Marvels Of
Nature and Art
The Largest OF Every Thing in All Quar-
ters OF the GlObe-An Interesting Com
pendulum of Historical and
Statistical Facts.

layas, the mean elevation being estimated
IT 900 feet.
The lofuest mountain is Mount Everest,
or Guarisauker, of the Himalaya range,
having an elevation of %, ,002 feet above the
sea level.
The largest city in the world is London.
Its population numbers 4,031, ,S75 souls. New
York, with a population of 1,550,0O0 comes
fifth in the list of great cities.
The largest theater is the new opera
house in Paris. 1t covers nearly three acres
of ground. It's cubic mass 4,2S7, 900 feet.
1t cost 63,000.O0O francs.
The loftiest active volcano is Popocatepetl
Smoking mountain). thirty-five miles
southwest of Puebla, Mex. II is 17,7S4
feet above the sea level, and has a crater
three miles in circumference and 1000 feet
deep.
The largest island in the world-which is
also regarded as continent-is Australia
1t is $500 miles in length from east to west
and measures 1880 miles from north To
south. Its area Is 2,9Si,2S1 square miles.
The largest span of wire ia the world is
used for u telegraph in India over the river
Kistuah between Bezorah and Sectau-
agrum. 1t is more than 5000 feet long, and
is stretched between two hills, each of
which Is 1890 feet high.
The largest ship III the world is the Great
Eastern. She is go feet long, So feet
broad and CD feet deep, being 222,921 tons
builders, 1913 gross and 1884 net
register. She was built at MillwaIl, on the
Thames, and was launched January 81,
1851
The largest university is Oxford, in En-
gland, in the city of the same name, fifty
five miles from London. 1t consists of
twenty-one colleges and five halls. Oxford
was seat of learning as early as the time
of Edward the ConfessOr. University Col
lege claims TO have been founded by
Alfred.
The largest body of fresh water on the
globe is Lake Superior-i01 miles long, 100
miles wide at its greatest breadth and hav-
ing an area of 5000 squase miles. Its
mean depth is said 10 be go and its greatest
depth 200 fathOms. Its surface is about 635
feet above the level of the sea.
The most extensive park Is Deer Park in
the environs of Copenhagen, in Denmark
The inclosure contains 4,2O0 acres, and is
divided by small river.
The largest pleasure ground in the United
States, and one OF the largest in the world,
is Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, which con-
tains 2, AS acres.
The largest cavern is Mammoth Cave,
in Edmondson County, Kentucky. 1t is
near Green river, SIX miles from Cave City
and about twenty-cight miles from Bowling
Green. The cave consists of "a succession
OF irregular chambers, some of which are
large, situated on different levels Some OF
these are traversed by navigable branches
of the subterranean Echo river. Blind fish
are found in its wateiV
The longest tunnel of the world is that of
st. Gothard on the line of railroad be-
tween Lucerne and Milan. The summit of
a i-0 faaf lN,1 @I.,
Andermatt and 600 feet beneath the peak
of Kastelhorn of the St. Gothard group.
The tunnel is twenty-six and one half feet
wide and nineteen feet ten inches from the
floor to the crown of the arched roof. 1t is
nine and Il half miles long-a little over a
mile longer than the Mount Gents tunnel.
The biggest trees III the world are the
mammoth trees of California. One of a
grove in Tulare County, according to meas
urement made 10y members of the State
Geological Survey, was shown to be 216 feet
high, lOj feet in circumference at base and
seventy-six feet at a point twelve feet
above the ground. Some of the trees are
$50 feet high and thirty-five feet in diam
eter Some of the largest that have been
felled Indicate an age of from 1900 to $500
years.
The largest inland sea is the Caspian, ly-
ing between Europe and Asia Its greatest
length is 160 miles, Its greatest breadth 210
miles, and its area lo0,000 square miles.
The Great Salt lake in Utah, which may be
properly termed an inland sea, is about
! ninety miles long and has varying breadth
Of from twenty to thirty-tive miles. Its
surface is 400 feet above the sea, whereas
the surface of the Caspian is eighty-four feet
below the level of the ocean
The largest Empire in the world is that of
Great Britain, comprising S,561, ,65S square
mlles-more than sixth part of the land
of the globe, and embracing under its rule
nearly sixth part of the population of the
! world. In territorial extent tue United
States ranks third, containing 1851 ,243
square miles, including Alaska. In popula-
tion it ranks fourth, with its 60,01O 900 of
| people. Russia ranks second, having $751;
$40 square miles.
The highest monolith is the obelsk at
Karuak, in Egypt. Karuak is on the cast
bank of the Nile, near Luxor, and occupies
part of the site of ancient Thebes. The
obelisk is ascrbed to Hatasu, sister of
| Pharaoh Thothmes ILL.,, who reigned about
1900 b. c. Its whole length is l20 feet, and
it weighs 400 tons. It's height without
| pedestal is los feet 10 inches. The height
! of the obelisk in Central Park, New York
! City, without pedestal, is 6S feet III inches
/ its weight about 1863 tons.
! The largest bell is the great bell of Mos
/ cow at the foot of the Kremlin. Its cir
| conference at the bottom Is nearly IS feet
and its height 4 little more than 81 feet. In
! Its stoutest part it is % inches thick. and
! ITS weight has been computed to be 443,172
/ pounds. 1t has never been hung, and was
! probably cast on the spot where il now
| stands. A piece of the bell is broken of
The fracture Is supposed to have been oc-
/ casioned by water having been thrown
! upon it when heated by the building erected
over 1t being on fire.
| The greatest wall in the world is the
| Chinese Wall, built by the first Emperor
| Of the Tsin dynasty. about III B c., as a
! protection against Tartars. Ii trayerses
/ 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 80
miles Including pardpet of five feet the
! total height of the wall is 90 feet: thickness
at the base, p feet, and at the top. Is feet
! Towers or bastions occur at intervals Of
about 100 Yards.