St. Paul daily globe., 1895-12-25
THE WORLDS RIVERS.
The Tigr:s is 1,15O miles long


The Tiber is only 290 miles long.
The world-famous Orontes is only
240 miles long.
The Zambeze, in South Africa, is 1900
miles in length.
Slow rivers flow at the rate Of three
to seven miles an hour.
Twelve creeks in the United States
bear the name of the Rhine.
Every ancient city of note was To-
Gated on or near the sea or river.
The Hudson river, from it's mouth to
the lakes is 400 miles in length.
For over 1900 miles the Nile does
not receive single tributary stream.
The Ganges is 1,570 miles long and
drains an area of 100000 square miles.
The Mississippi and it's tributaries
drain an area of 100000 square miles,
The. River Jordan has it's origin in
one of the largest springs in the world.
The branches of the Mississippi have
an aggregate length of 15,C00 miles.
3 The Connecticut. the principal stream
of New England, is $50 miles in length.
In islands of too small size to have
rivers, creeks are dignified by that
name.
The Irish, in Siberia, is 2,2OO miles
in length, and drains 6000 miles of
territory.
The most extensive protective river
the Danube.
The Nile. from it's delta to the great
lakes of Central Africa, is over 1000
miles in length.
During a single flood of the Yang
tse-Kiang, in China, 100000 persons
were drowned.
There are twenty creeks in this coun-
try which have been dignified with the
name of the Tiber.
The Rhine is only $50 miles long, but
dains territory nearly double the area
of Texas.
The Thames of England is 22O miles
long. The river of the same name in
Canada is $50.
The Arkansas river is 2,17O miles long,
but at various points in it's course is
very thin for it's length.
The Potomac river is only 500 miles
long, and in its lower course is rather
an estuary than a stream.
The Mississippi, at the point where
1T flows out of Lake Itaska. is 10 feet
wide and Is inches deep.
The Columbia river of Canada is L.
400 miles in length; the stream of the
same name in Oregon is GEO.
The British Islands are better pro-
vided with rivers than any other coun-
try of the same size on the globe.
The Styx was, according to Honor,
the principal river of hell. 1t encircled
The Euphrates is termed in the East
"The Royal river" from the fact that
672 kings have reigned on its banks.
The Seine is 470 miles in length, and
during the lower part of it's course fire.
quently attains a width of mile.
The River Dee in Scotland has had
more poems written in it's honor than
any other stream on the British Isle.
Australia has no rivers of any con-
sequence. The interior of this vast
continent is almost destitute of water.
The Appalachicola river, in Florida,
is only 100 miles long, but it has a
name out of all proportion to it's length.
Some of the streams of Idaho are
believed to have the power of petrify-
ing organic matter placed in their
waters.
All the rivers which flow into the
Arctic ocean are frozen solidIy to the
bottom during about six months in
every year.
In river which changes it's channel
every point gains ground, and every
bend tends to become still more crook
ed
The Parana, of Brazil and Argentine,
is 1900 miles in length, and after the
Amazon is the largest river in South
America.
The Orinoco is 1,6OO miles in length,
but is much larger than might be sup
/, tropics. 80 1900 -
We have in Alaska one of the great
sest rivers of the world, the Kwichnak.
sit is believed to be more than 1900
smiles long. sss --'''
y The Amazon Is 1914 miles in length,
rising within seventy miles of the Pa
+cific ocean, and flowing near across
othe continent 20
The Amoor. the great stream of Chi
ma and Siberia, is 1.50O miles in length,
but for nine months in the year is
ice-bound. =rs-.t&,
The Hoangho, or Yellow river, of
. China is $500 miles in length, and
h drains a territory equal to one-third
. the area Of the United States.
:. The Yang-tse-K;ang, of China, is
: 900 miles long, and navigable for
good-sized vessels for more than two
dthirds of that distance.
# The Volga Is the great river Of Rus
sia, having length of 2.900 miles and
and draining nearly one-half the Euro
pean dominions of the czar.