Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-06-03
THE WORLDS WONDERS
Some Remarkable Facts Not Generally
Known.

known.
Some butterflies lay over i00.0 900 eggs.
Tortoises have been known to live 800
years.
There are forty-eight varieties of the
common fly.
The Nile has fall of only six inches
in 1000 miles.
The speed of the falcon often exceeds
$50 miles an hour.
A teaspoonful of microbes contains
over 1000, 900 individuals.
The largest mammoth tusk yet dis
covered was sixteen feet.
The earth receives only one two-bil
lionth of the heat of the sun.
The lungs of the average man contain
about five quarts of air,
Daniel Lambert, the latest man ever
known, weighed $50 pounds,
In one summer the descendants of
single fly will number 1850, 500.
The longest bridge in the world owe
the st. Lawrence river, is 9, IA feet
The catacombs of Rome contain the
remains of about six million people
Rivers hold in suspension over one
hundredth of their volume of solid matter.
The highest falls in the world are the
Ribbon Falls of the Yosemite 3, 300 feet.
A speck of gold weighing the millionth
part of grain may be easily seen by the
naked eye,
The largest building is the Coliseum
at Rome, 6l5 feet in greatest diameter
and 100 high.
The oldest monument in the world is
the mound covering the Tower of Babel,
erected B. c. 2247.
The average weight of the male infant
at birth is seven pounds; of the female
six and half.
The most remarkable springs in the
world are in California; they produce
sulphuric acid and ink.
The highest mountain is Mount Ever
est in Thbet, 10000 feet, or five anC
three-quarter miles.
The largest single fortifcation in tn
world is Fortress Monroe. 1t has alread,
cost over So, 100000.
The oldest flute in the world is mad
of the thigh-bone of sheep and wa
found in tomb on the Nile.
The highest tower in the world is til
Eiffel, 1000 feet; the next, the Wash
ington Monument, 555 feet.
The first wooden bridge, so far a
known, was the Sublician Bridge
Rome, built in the Seventh century,
A dollar loaned for 100 years, an
compounded ut "a per cent, will amour
in that time to 81, sol, 799, 404.
: The Great Eastern was the large
r ship ever built-6s0 feet long, 80 broaC
60 deep and 20, 627 tons burden.
The largest tomb in the world is I'll
Pyramid of Cheops, 4Gl feet high an
:. covering thirteen acres of ground.
Pho largest theatre in the world is Il
, Paris Opera House. 1t covers three acr
, and cost 100, 100000 francs.
t The highest inhabited place in Il
e world is the Custom House OF Anc
j. marca, in Peru, 10000, 900 feet abo
the sea.
y The highest volcano is Popocatapet
G Mexico, MAS feet, with a crater a mi
e in diameter and 1000 feet deep
-, The largest church in the world is
u Peters in Rome; the smallest, churt
I ten feet square in the Isle of Man.
= The most wonderful vegetable in t
! world is the trutfie; il has neither ROOT
p stem, leaves, flowers nor seeds.
:. A thousand millions Of the anmalcu
d found in stagnant water do not cole
e lively equal the size of grain of san
2 The canon of the Colorado is 800 mi
% long, and the cliffs on either side q
, from 5000 to 600 feet above t
y water.
> The oldest statue in the world is
, the Sheik of an Egyptian village. 1t
" believed to be not less than 5000 yes
mr. old.
TX The earliest library was that Of Net
ne chadnezzar Every book was brio
engraved with cuneiform characters.
Of The largest desert is the Sahara; &c
ut miles from east to west, 1000 from mol
by to south; area, 5000 square miles.
N The amount of air that a man will
~ hale in twenty-four hours will fill seven
~ eight hogsheads and weigh iifty-th
-" pounds.
If The Brooklyn Bridge, the largest s
". pension bridge in the world, IS, with
We approaches, $3.50 long and cost $3.50
at 900.
/ The longest single span Of wire in
ny world is used for a telegraph line o
he the River Kistuan, in India. 1t is g.
of feet long.
on If a man could jump rs far, in PROF
'er tion to his size and weight, as a flea,
Ip' could Mt a single leap, pass from St.LC
ir- to Chicago.
it ~. The first mention Of the pipe organ
ies history is in connection with Solom'
li99 Temple, where there was an organ v
~ ten pipes
The largest Gothic Church in
world is Cologne Cathedral. It's foar
ed ton stones were laid in l2iS, AID
edidcc was completed ia 1880.
The largest cut stones in the world
emit In the Temple Of the Sun, no BaalI
ST. Many are more than go feet long, 20