The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1894-12-15

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including Sicily, has an area Of llS-
600 square miles.
The highest mountain in the
united states east of the Mississip-
pi is Mount Mitchell, In North
Carolina, which is a little over Z, 900
feet in height, or less than one half
as high as thirty or forty peaks
west of the Mississippi.
The united states is seventy
times as large as England, seven
teen times as large IS Germany
aud three hundeed and fifty times
as large as Holland, but is only
one~third the size OF the British
Empire and two-fifths the sise Of
the Russian Empire.
When the Revolutionary War
closed there were only two cities in
the united states that had 20, 600
inhabitants, Philadelphia and New
York. Now there are l75. Phila-
delphla was the largest city in the
country until 1910 when New Yerx
passed it.
The center of population in tho
united states. is a.few miles south
of Columbus, Ind. BY. sscenter Of
population" we mean that If north
and south line and can east and
west line were drawn through that
place the same number of people
:iv.i, ,,,l of the four Sec
ticns thus produced.
Delaware, next to the smallest
state in the union, is almost ex-
actly the size eof Prince Edwards
Island, in the Gulf of st. Lawrence,
which constitutes province Of the
Dominion of Canada. Each has
about 2, 100 square miles. Texas
is nearly seventy times as large as
both put together.
While Lake Superior is the larg-
est fresh water lake in the world, it
is only one-sixth ssthe size of the
Caspian Sea, in Asia, which is
really salt water lake, and il is
entirely surrounded by land. Lake
Michigan has been displaced from
| it's position as the second lake in
size by the Victoria NyanRa, in
Central Africa, which recent ex-
i plorers estimate at $4,000 Square
4 miles In area, or only 1900 less
than Lake Superior.
. Kentucky is in the latitude of
Sicily, but while Sicily is semi
tropical, the Ohio River at Louis
vile, KY, mile wide there, has
been frozen over SO solidly.a num-
Der of times, the latest in the win.
ter of 1892 SO that loaded wagons
crossed on it. Even the Danube
many hundreds of miles north of
Sicily. has not been frozen over in
this, manner since ancient times.
Messrs. Stanley 4 Gibbone have
purchased the celebrated collection
of Australian stamps owned by F.
M. Castle, vice-president of the
London Philatelic society, for $780,
600. This is the largest price ever
paid for a collection of stamps.
The collection was commenced =
1872, and includes stamped envel-
opse. cards and wrappers, many of
the specimens being unused.
What has been called the Great
American Desert covers an area of
about 900, 600 square miles in the
united states or nearly one third Of
the united states proper. 1t in
cludes Wyoming, Nevada, New
Mexico, Arizona, utah and a large
part of Montana, Idaho, Washing
ton, Oregon and Colorado. While
! there are many fertile valleys and
immense areas suitable for stock
ranges, most of this country is at
great elevation above the sea, and
suffers from a very light rainfall.
The greatest river west of the
Rocky Mountains is the Columbia.
The Colorado and the Rio Grande,
which look so large on the map,
are shallow. Nearly all the rivers
of the great plains, though long,
have very small volume of water,
and often in summer become mere
series of pools. The Humboldt
and the Carson, the largest rivers
in Nevada, finally sink in the sand
and are seen no more