The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1889-01-30
SOME IMMENSE THINGS.
A Few OF the Great Marvels Of
Nature and Art
The Largest of Every Thing In All Quar-
tors OF tho Globe--An Interesting Conn
pendium of Historical and
Statistical Facts.

The highest mountain range is the Hima-
layas, the mean elevation being estimated
at Is, 900 feet.
The lofuest mountain is Mount Everest,
or Guarisauker, of the Himalaya range,
having an elevation Of 29,002 feet above the
sea level
The largest city in the world is London.
Its population numbers 4,02l, ,S75 souls New
York, with q population Of l,550,OOO, 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 Its cubic mass 4,2S1000 feet.
1t cost 63,0OO00O francs.
The loftiest active volcano is Popocatepetl
Smoking mountain), thirty-fve miles
southwest Of Puebla, Mex. 1t is 177A
feet above the sea level, and has crater
three miles in circumference and 900 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 1850 miles from north to
south. Its area is 2,9S4,9S7 square miles.
The largest span Of wire in the world is
used for 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 1900 feet high.
The largest ship in the world Is the Great
Eastern. She is $50 feet long, SO feet
broad and 60 feet deep, being 22,927 tons
builders, 1875 gross and 1884 net
register She was built at Millwall, on the
Thames, and was launched January 81,
1857.
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 aud five halls. Oxford
was seat Of learning US early as the time
Of Edward the Conlessor. University Col
lege claims to have been founded by
Alfred.
The largest body Of fresh water on the
globe is Lake Superior-i00 miles long, 100
miles wide at its greatest breadth and hav-
ing an area Of S9,0Os square miles. its
mean depth is said TO be 900 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 1900 acres, and is
divided by a 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 2,745 acres.
The largest cavern is Mammoth Cave,
in Edmondson County, Kentucky. 1t is
near Green river, SIX miles from Cave City
and about twenty-eight miles from Bowling
Green. The cave consists OF succession
Of irregular chambers, some Of which are
large, situated on different levels. Some Of
these are trayersed by navigable branches
Of the subterranean Echo river. Blind fish
are found in its waters.
The longest tunnel Of the world is that OF
st. Gothard, on the line Of railroad be-
tween Lucerne and Milan. The summit OF
the tunnel is 900 feet below the surface at
Andermatt and 5000 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 arclsed roof. It Is
nine and half miles long-a little over
mile longer than the Mount Cents tunnel.
The biggest trees In the world are the
mammoth trees OF California. One OF q
grove in Tulare County, according TO meas
urement made by members Of the State
Geological Survey, was shown 10 be 2I6 feet
high, l06 feet in circumference at base and
seventy-six feet at q point twelve feet
above the ground. Some OF the trees are
$50 feet high and thirty-fve feet in diam
eter. Some OF the largest that have been
felled indicate an age OF from 1000 TO $500
years.
The largest inland sea is the Caspian, ly-
ing between Europe and Asia Its greatest
length is 760 miles, ITS greatest breadth go
miles, and its area 10000 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-fve 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 $685., ,658 square
miles-more than sixth part Of the land
OF the globe, and embracing under It's rule
nearly q sixth part Of the population Of the
world. In territorial extent the United
States ranks third, containing 8,5sl, ,243
square miles, including Alaska In popula-
ton II ranks fourth, with Its 6oO00, 900 Of
people. Russia ranks second, having s,352,.
go square miles.