Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-10-12
LAnehsr ~ tn e WORLD.
Information About Many Things That
Worth Knowing.

Information About Many Things That IS
Worth Knowing.
New York Press
The largest locomotive works in the
world are in Philadelphia.
The largest car manufacturing plant
in the world is in Pittsburg.
The largest drug house in the world
is in st. Louis.
The largest Wholesale dry goods
house in the world is in New York.
Tho largest gun works in the world
are in Essen.
The largest brewery is in St. Louis.
sss.The largest tobacco factory is in ST.
Louis.
The largest wooden ware manu-
factory is in st. Louis.
The largest steel works are in Pitts
burg.
The largest drop hammer In the
world is the property of the Bethlehem
Iron Co.
The largest spring works are in Pitts
burg.
The largest bank is N London.
The largest church is in Rome.
The largest beef and pork packing
house is in Chicago.
The largest starch business is in
Oswego.
The largest copper mine is in Michi-
gan.
The largest pumping engine in the
world IS In the Calumet and Hecla
mine, Michigan.
The largest match factory in the
world is ut Barbeerton, o. Its capacity
is 100. 900, 600 day.
The greatest railroad in the world is
in the United States.
The greatest hotel is in New York.
The greatest marble quarry is in
Vermont. ...-.
The greatest flour mill is in Min
neapolis.
The greatest copper and brass mill is
in Waterbury.
The greatest stove factory is in
| Detroit.
The largest number Of theatres is in
| London.
The largest hospital in the world is
in Parasitic Hotel DIES Invalides.
Tho greatest whisky industry is in
the United States, the output being
more tnan so, 600, 600 gallons a year.
The largest sewing machine works in
the world are at EIizabethport.
The largest boot and shoe industry
is at Lynn.
Iu6 lHrDBSb BrUCdry Houso ~ phe
world is in New York.
The largest hardware house in the
world is in st. Louis.
The largest State is Texas.
The largest financier in the world il
in New York,
The largest broker is in New York.
The largest stock exchange is in New
York.
The largest city lin area) is New
York.
The largest life insurance compauie
are in New York.
The largest buildings are in New
York.
The largest corporation in the worlt
is in Pennsylvania-the Carnegie Stee
Co., capital stock, $3.50, 900, 600. Mex
comes the Federal Steel Co. of New
Jersey, capital authorized. 5000, 600, 600
The largest monument In the work
is in Misunderstanding in the sens
of tallness and cost.
The loftiest structure in the world i
in Paris-the Eiffel Tower.
The largest steamboat runs in Lon
Island Sound, between New York ant
Fall River.
The largest steamship plies betwee
J New York, Southampton and Bremen.
J The largest locomotive is on shor
line in Pittsburg.
The largest college or university
, Harvard, considering the greatest nun
Der of students. Its undergraduate
exceed in number those OF Oxford.
! The greatest shipbuilding plant i
! the world is in Belfast.
, The largest suspension bridge in tn
world is in New York.
) The largest IN etal spans in the worl
I are in New York (the Washingto
Bridge).
. The largest public gardens are j
: Paris.
. The largest stone structure is
t Egypt.
3 The largest falls are in New York.