Arizona republican., 1900-07-24
WORLDS QUALIFICATIONS.

Next to Gibraltar, Malta is the strongest fortress in the world.
 The only fortress of consequence in Denmark is the capital, Copenhagen.
 The strongest fortress in European Russia is Constadt. It is the Russian naval depot of the Baltic sea.
 The earliest known system of forti fication was the stockade. It has been employed, at one time or another, by all nations, but is still in use in Tur key.
 Ofa's dike was a defensive wall built by the Romans against the Welsh. It was an earthen fertilization, 113 miles long and entirely cut off Wales from England.
 The only fortress in the United States is Fortress Monroe, in Virginia. It is surrounded by a meat filled with water from eight to fifteen feet deep. and from seventy-hve to one hundred feet wide.
 The two principal German fortresses on the Baltic sea are at Konigsberg and Danzig; on the French frontier, Metz and Strasburg, and on the Belgian fronties, Cologne and CobIenz.
 France has, on the German frontier, three first-class fortresses - Belfort, Verdum and Briancon; on the Belgian frontier, Lille, Dunkirk, Arras and Donaz; on the Italian, Lyon, Brenoble and Besancon, and on the Atlantic coast, Rochefort, Lorient and Brest.
 The southern entrance of the Red sea is commanded by the fortress of Alden and the fort on the little island of Pcrim, in the Straits of Babel Man deb; the guns of the latter completely covering the narrow channel, and the fortress dominating the entrance to the sea.
 The difference between a fort and fortress lies in the fact that the former is designed to contain solely the garri-, son and their munitions, while the lat ter is often a city containing a large number of nOncombatants.
 The Chinese wall is the most exten- sive fertilization in the world. Accord ing to the surveys made within the last few years, this wall is 172S miles in length, and it passes up steep noun tains, down into gcrges and ravines, crosses rivers, valleys and plains seem ingly regardless of obstacles. It is twenty-five feet thick at the bottom and fifteen feet at the top, and from twenty-five to thirty feet in height, with turrets or towers thirty-five to forty feet high every 200 or 300 yards during it's entire length. The exterior is filled with earth and stone, and the passageway is paved with bricks one foot square. The erection was begun in 211 B. C., and it was designed to pro- tect the northern fr0ntier of China against the savage tribes of Siberia.
 The greatest fortress in the world is Gibraltar. The height of the rock is over 1400 feet, and the stupendous pre- cipice is pierced by miles of galleries in the solid stone, porthOles for cannon being placed at frequent intervals. The rock is perfectly impregnabIe to the shot of an enemy, and. by means of the great elevation, a plugging fire can be directed from an enormous height upon a hostile fleet. In 1779 the cele- bratcd siege by the Spaniards and French began and lasted three years The fortress was successfully defended by 1000 British and attacked by an army of over 4. GOO men, with 1000 pieces of artillery. forty-ssven sail of the line, ten great floating batteries, and grl at numbers of smaller boats For months over COCO shells a day were thrown into the town.-Golden Penny Magazine.