The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-10
MUNDANE WONDERS.
SOME OF The MOST REMARKABLE
OBJECTS ON EARTH
Natural And Artificial-Highest Noun
tains, Deepest Seas, Longest Rivers,
Most Notable Volcanoes, Architect
,1ral UyorLz md pri6oyas

ursl Works and Bridges
From the st. Louis Republic.
The highest mountain in the globe is not,
as is generally supposed, Mount Everest,
that honor belonging TO a lofty peak on the
Isle Of Papua, or New Guinea. This monster,
which lifts its snow-capped summit far into
the clouds, was discovered by Capt. A J.
Lawson of London in 1851 According to
Lawson, this new claimant for the cham
pionship is 30, 763 feet IN hight, being 1871
fec higher than Mount Everest, which is
only 2J,0J2 feet above the level of the In
dian ocean. This New Guinea giant has
been uamei Mount Hercules.
OF oceans, the Pacific is the largest, being
1000 miles long and 5000 miles wide. II
also aims the honor of being the deepest.
The deepest place yet mentioned was near
the La1rone Islands, where a depth Of 4 AIS
fathOms was found. This great depth m
be batter understood when We consider that
4, AS fathoms is 70, $50 feet, or something
over five miles.
OF works of art, the great wall of China
may truthfully be said to be the most elab-
crate and OK osnsive on the globe. 1t was
built about ths year 200 b. g., to protect
China from the annual cursions Of the
Tartars l. is 800 miles long, and, where
still Intact, 30 feet hig ald broad enough
10 allow Of six horseunen riding abreast on
its top.
The Imperial canal, also Chinese work,
Is something over 800 miles long. A vast
army Of from 50, 900 to 10000 men are said
TO have been employed for period of fifty
years in its construct II.
The Mississippi ri yer, from the source of
the Missouri to the Eads ietties, is the long
est river in the world. 1t is 1890 miles in
length aGd drains al area Of l, TIC, 900 square
miles.
The Amazon, which is without doubt the
widest river IN the world, including the
Beni, is 1000 miles il length, and drains
2,33OOU square miles Of territory.
The largest republic in the world and
toe only one that has ever lived a century
on purely democratic basis, is that of our
own L tied States OF America, which con-
tains 3,20 1000 square miles, being almost
equal III extent to Europe, which las 80
kingdoms, empires, principslities and re-
publcS.
The largest state in our grand republic is
Texas, which contains 274 so square miles,
capable OF sustaining 30,UJ0, 90 of people
and then not be more crowded than Scot
la d Is at present
1t has been estimated that the entire
population of the globe could be seated
upon chairs within tine boundary of Texas
and eac have four feet of elbow room.
The largest county in the United States
IS Custer county, Montana, which contains
$1,000 square mles, being larger in extent
than the states Of Vermont, Massachu ,etts,
Connecticut, Delaware and Rhode Island
| One tenth Of the present population of the
United States could find means of a liveIi-
hood within the immense county then it
would not be as oyercrowded as Belgium
was at the time of the last census.
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| world is Lake Superior. 1t is 400 miles
long and $50 miles wide; its circumference
including the windings of its various bays,
| has been estimated at 1900 miles. Its area
in squa miles 81 900, which is create,
than the whole of New England, leaving
out Maine. The gre test depth of t lis i !.
land sea is POO fathoms, or 200 feet. Its
average depth is about 100 fathoms. It's
| 636 feet above sea level.
The highest active volcano in the world
IS Popocatapetl, 80 miles south of Pueblo.
Mexico. 1t is II, 1884 feet high the crater is
| three miles in circumference and 900 feet
deep When Cortez conquered Mexico, Po-
| pocatapetl was in state If active eruption,
the smoke being visible for 500 miles in
every direction.
One Of COrtez's men, Francisco Montana.
was the first white Inan to ascend to the
summit. Up to 1875 but two white women.
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| Terry, had ever gazed into the awful crater.
! Since that time several lady tourists have
made the ascent. The figures Of Gen.
! Casper Ochor, the owner OF the great
smoking mountain, show it to be 10, 523 feet
high; 1854, the figures given above, are
those used by most geograpners.
London, with an area somewhat indefinite.
is th-.largest city in the world. Her postal dis.
| trlcts extend over scope of IA square miles
| The popolution of 1851 was some hing over
| 4,OOO,O 900. 1t stands on four cou aties, cover
| Ing the most of each. 1t has 100000 for
elgners from every quarter of the globe, and
Is said to have more Catholics than Rome
herself aud more Jews than all Palestine.
Within the limits Of the city there is a birth
| every five minutes and a death every eioht
m m 6Gd day and night. Each year adds
! 45,O0O to The population. There are 1000
miles of streets, and 1900 miles of
street railway within the city limits.
Each year an average of 2S
miles of new streets are onened
| The largest island, and one frequently
| spoken OF as a continent, Is Australia. Its
| greatest leog b from east to west is 2. 500
mics, and from nor to south / $50 mics.
| Its area in square miles IS . ,9S4. 37S. orabont
! the same as that OF the United States. az
| elusive of ALASKA. At the last census the
| population OF the Island, natives exclud sd.
was ,, 1852. Austria has I ZOO mile; of
railway aud $1,000 miles of telegraph and
| telephone lines.
The most extensive mines in the world are
those OF Frey urg, SaXony They wee be.
| gun III the twelfth century, and in 1885 The
galleries taken collec;iv lively, had reached
| the unprecedented length Of 1913 miles. A
new gallery, begun ia 1888 had reached a
length of eight miles at the time of the
census OF 1878.
The deepest perpendicular mining shaft
! in the world IS located at Priz,lram- Bohe-
mia. It is a lead mine 1t was begun in
1882. January, 1880, it was 5, 2S0 feet deep.
The deepest coal-mi le in the world is near
| Tourney, Belgiun n. 1t is 3,542 feet in depth.
| but, unlike the leaG-mine mentioned above
it is not perpen hcucr.
The deepest r0ck-Selt bore il the world is
near Berlin, Pru STA. 1t is ,1S5 feet deep.
TIE deepest hole ever bored in the earth
is the arcesian well at Poisdam, which is
$500 feet deep.
The deepest coal mines in England are
tie Du klik collieries at Laacas Are, which
are :, S24 feet in depth.
Tne deepest coal shaft in the United
! States is located At Pottsville, Pa. In 1885
| it had reached a depjh # 90 feet. From
! this great depth ears holding four TO 6
each, are holsted daily.
Ths deepest silver mine in the United
/ States IS tue Yellow Jack t, one of the
/ great Comstock system at Virginia CITY
| New; the lower levels are ., 100 feet below
the hosting works.
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