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VOL 1-NO 52. THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 12, !8«!> 85.00 PER ANNUM WONDERS OF THE WORLD. CO to W £ ® % *3 CD 89 CD 63 P M. o p m rt- O CD CD 69 at' h p • p crq 63 p CL O rn § w 1 o CD FT m H 3 H (B P CD CD P- e-t- P CD M ^P CD CD P 63 «3 l-l* <5 CD CD P CD DP CD § CD CD CD P o o cs: CD O •et- d 63 63 g. o p Cfi p* p O - CD >-j CD CD CD >-<• CD P- H H I 3 V H* e+ 0 p o 0. ffl p. r s> 1. u CD ■■ E .a <d 4 Q [0 i> H IB iJ i_i 2 H b Q 4 H 0 b| a) H £ ■ H § &J *4 lb b b b| ► H P o H * n H H H I « III SOME OF THE MOST REMARK ABLE OBJECTS ON EARTH. Natural and Artificial—Highest Moun tains, Deepest Seas, Longest Rivers, Most Notable Volcanoes, Archi tectural Works and Bridges. From tho St. Louis Republic. The highest mountain on the globe is not, as is generally supposed, Mount Everest, that honor belonging to a lofty peak on the Isle of Papua, or New Guinea. This monster, which lifts its snow capped summit far into year the clouds, was discovered by Capt, 45,000 to the population. There are ‘ * * '81. V A. J. Lawson, of London, in 18< According to Lawson, this new claim ant for the championship is 32,765 feet in height, being 3,781 feet higher than Mount Everest, which is only 20,002 feet above the level of the In dian ocean. This New Guinea giant has been named Mount Hercules, Of oceans, the Pacific is the largest, being 11,000 miles long and 8,000 miles wide. It also claims the honor of being the deepest. The deepest place yet mentioned was near the La- drone islands, where a depth of 4,475 fathoms was found. This great depth may be better understood, when wc consider that 4,475 fathoms is 25,850 feet, or something over five miles. • Of works of art, the great wall of China may truthfully be said to be the most elaborate and extensive on the globe. It was built about the year 300 B. C., to protect China from the annual incursions of the Tartars. It is 1,500 miles long, and where still intact, 30 feet high and broad enough to 'allow of six horsemen riding abreast on its top. The Imperial canal, also a Chinese work, is something over 900 miles long. A vast army of from 30,000 to 40,000 men are said to have been em ployed for a perid of fifty years iu its construction. The Mississippi river, from the source of the Missouri to the Eads jetties, is tho longest river in tho world. It is 4,300 miles in length, and drains an area of 1,725,000 square miles. The Amazon, which is without doubt tho widest river in the world, including the Beni, is 4,000 miles in length, and drains 2,330,000 square miles of territory. Tho largest republic in the world, and the only one which has ever lived a century on a purely democratic basis, is that of our own UnitedStatcs of America, which contains 3,260,000 square miles, being almost equal in extent to Europe, wliicli has 59* king doms, empires, principalities and re publics. The largest state in our grand re public is Texas, which contains 274,- 350 square miles, qjjpable of sustain ing 20,000,000 of people, and then not be more crowded than Scotland is at present. It has been estimated that the en tire population of tho globe could be seated upon chairs within the boun dary of Texas, and each have four feet of elbow room. The lnrgest county in the United States is Custer county, Montana, Which contains 35,000 squares miles, being larger in extent Chan the states of Vermont, Massachusetts, Connec ticut, Delaware and Rhode Island. One tenth of tho present population of the United States could find means of a livelihood within tho immense county; then it would not be as over crowded as Belgium was at tho time of the last census. The largest body of fresh water in the world is Lake Superior. It is 400 miles long and 180 miles wide; its circumfcrnncc, including the wind ings of its various bays, has been esti 1 mated at 1,800 miles. Its area in square miles, 32,000 is greater than the whole of New England, leaving out Maine. The greatest depth of this inland sea is 200 fathoms, or 1,200 feet. Its average depth is about 160 fathoms. It is 436 fcot above sea level. The highest active volcano in the world is Popocatepetl, 35 miles south of Pueblo, Mexico. It is 17,784 feet high; tho crater is three miles in cir- cumfcrcnco and 1,000 feet deep. When Cortez conquered Mexico, Po pocatepetl was in a state of active eruption, tho smoke being visible for 500 miles in every direction. One of Cortez’s men, Francisco Montano, was the first white man to ascend to tho summit. Up to 1875 but two white women, Mrs. John IV. Foster and Mrs. Arthur Terry, had ever gazed into the awful crater. Since that time several lady tourists have made the ascent. The figures of Gen. Casper Ochor, tho owner of the great smoking mountain, show it to bo 19,523 feet high; 17,784, the figures given above, arc those used by most geographers. London, with an area somewhat indefinite, is the largest city in the world. Her postal districts extend over a scope of 144 square miles; that of the police over 690 square miles. The population of 1881 was something over 4,000,000. It stands on four counties, covering the most of each. It has 1,500,000 foreigners from every quarter of the globe, and is said to have more Catholics than Rome herself and more Jews than all Palestine. Within the limits of the city there is a birth every five min utes, and a death every eight minutes, day and night. Each year adds ,000 miles of streets, and 1,200 miles of street railway within the city limits. Each year an average of 28 miles of new street are opened. The largest island, and one fre quently spoken of as a continent, is Australia. Its greatest length from cast to west is 2,500 miles, and fiorn north to south 1,950 miles. Its area in square miles is 2,984,378, or about the same as that of the United States, exclusive of Alaska. At the last census the population of the island, natives excluded, was 2,136,512. Austria has 7,000 miles of railway and 32,000 miles of telegraph and telephone lines. The most extensive mines in the world are those of Frcyburg, Saxony. They were began in the twelfth cen tury, aud in 1835 tho galleries, taken collectively’, had reached the unpre cedented length of 123 miles. A new gallery, begun in 1838, had reached a length of eight miles at the time of the census of 1878. Tho deepest perpendicular mining shaft in the world is located at Prizil- ram, Bohemia. It is a lead mine. It was begun in 1832. January’, 1880, it was 3,280 feet deep. The deepest coal-mine in the world is near Tourney, Belgium. It is 3,542 feet in depth, but, unlike the lead-mine mentioned above, it is not perpendicular. The deepest rock-salt boro in the world is near Berlin, -J’russia. It is 4,185 feet deep. The deepest hole ever bored in the earth is the artesian well at Potsdam, which is 5,500 feet deep. The deepest coal mines in England are tho Durkick collieries at Lan cashire, which are 2,824 feet in depth. The deepest coal shaft in the United States is located at Pottsville, Pa. In 1885 it had reached a depth of 1,576 feet. From this great depth 400 cars holding four tons each, arc hoisted daily. The deepest silver. mine in the United States is the Yellow Jacket, one of the great Comstock system at Virginia City, Nev.; the lower levels are 2,700 feet below the hoisting works. The largest suspension bridge in the world is that crossing East river be tween New York city and Brooklyn. The total length of the bridge is 5,989 feet; length of mein span 1,595 feet and 6 inches, and each land span 930 feet; length of the three spans 3,455 fcot and 6 inches. The length of the Brooklyn approach is 971 feet, and of the Now York approach 1,562 feet and 6 inches. It was begun Jnn. 30, 1870; opened to the public May 24, 1883. Total cost, 815,000,000. Tho largest stone bridge on the face of the earth is that finished in May, 1885, at Lagang, China. Chi nese engineers had sole control of its construction* It crosses an arm of the China sea, is nearly six miles in length, is composed entirely of stone and has 300 arches, each 70 feet high. It is the most colossal structure ever reared by man, yet we sneer at the “Heathen Chinee.” The largest truss iron bridge in the world crosses the Firth of Tay, Boot land. It is 18,612 feet in length aud composed of 85 spans. The longest wooden bridge in the world is that crossing Lake Ponchar- train, near New Orleans, La. It is trestlowork 21 miles in length, built of cypress piles which have been sat urated with creosote oil to preserve them. The hightest bridge in the United States is over the Kinzini creek, near Bradford, Pa. It was built in 1882, has a total span of 2,051 feet and is 301 feet above the creek bed. The great pyramid of Ghizch is the largest structure of any kind ever erected by the hand of man. Its original dimensions at the base wore 764 feet square, and its perpendicular hight in the highest point 488 feet; it covers 4 acres, 1 rood and 22 perches of ground, and has been estimated by an eminent English architect to have cost not l^s than £20,000,000, which in United States currency would be about 8145,200,000. Internal evidence proves that tho great pyramid was begun about the year 2170 B. O., about the time of the birth of Abraham. It is estimated that about 5,000,000 tons of hewn stones were used in its con struction, and the evidence points to the fact that these stones were brought a distance of about 700 miles from quarries in Arabia. The largest and grandest temple of worship in the world is the St. Peter’s cathedral at Rome. It stands on the site of Nero’s circle in tho northwestern part of the city, and is built in the form of a Latin cross. The total length of the interior is 6124 English feet; transept, 4464 feet; hight of nave, 1524 feet; diameter of cupola, 193 feet; hight of dome from pavement to top of cross, 448 feet. The great bell alone without the hammer or clapper, weighs 18,600 pounds, or over 9] tons. The foundation was laid in 1450 A. D. Forty-three popes lived aud died dur ing the time the work was in progress. It was dedicated iu the year 1826, but not entirely finished until the year 1880. The cost, in round numbers, is set down at 870,000,000. The capitol building at Washington, D. C., is the largest building in the United States. The corner stone was laid Dec. 18, 1793, by President Washington, assisted by other Masons. It was partially destroyed by the British in 1814. The present dome was begun in 1855 and finished iu 1863. The flag of the United States first floated from it Dec. 12,1863. The cost of the entire build ing has been something over 813,000,- 000. Its length is 715 feet 4 inches, with 324 feet. It covers 34 acres of ground. The distance from the ground to the top of the dome is 3074 feet; diameter of tho dome, 1254 feet—making fifth as to size with the greatest domes of the world. The highest building in the \*>rld, not counting the Eiffel tower aud the Washington monument, is the Cologne cathedral. The hight from the pave 1 ment to the ton of the cupola is 511 feet. It is 511 feet long, exactly the same as the hight, and 231 feet wide. It was begun August 15, in the year 1248, and was pronounced finished August 14, 1880, over 600 years after the corner-stone was laid. The corner-stone of the Washington monument, the highest in the United States, and until within the last few months the highest in the world, was laid July 4, 1848. Robert E. Win throp, then the speaker of the House, delivered the oration. Work pro gressed steadily for about six years, until the funds of I he monumental society became exhausted. At that time the monument was about 175 feet high. From 1854 until 1879 nothing to speak of was dono on the building. In the year last above named congress voted an appropriation of 8200,000 to complete the work. From that time forward work progressed at a rapid rate until December 6, 1884, when aluminum apex was set at 555 feet 54 inches from the foundation and the work declared finished. The founda tion is 1464 feet squnre; number of stones used above the 130-foot level, 9,160; total weight stone used in work, 81,120 tons. “Liberty,” Bartholdi’s statue, pre sented to the United States by the French people in 1885, is the largest statue ever built. Its conception is due to the great French sculptor whose name it bears. It is said to be a like ness of his mother. Eight years of timo was consumed in the construction of this gigantic brazen image. Its weight is 440,0611 pounds, of which 146,060 pounds are copper, the re mainder iron aud steel. The major part oi the iron and steel was used in constructing the skeleton framework for the inside. The mammoth electric light held in the hand of the giantess is 305 feet above the tide-water. The hight of the figure is 1554 feet, the pedestal 91 feet, aud the foundation 52 feet aud 10 inches. Forty persons can find standing room within the mighty head, which is 144 feet iu diameter. A 6-foot man standing on the lower lip could hardly reach the eyes. The index finger is 8 feet iu length, and the nose 3j feet. The Colossus of Rhodes*was a pigmy com pared with this latter-day wonder. The largest ship overbuilt, the Great Eastern, recently broken to pieces and sold to junk dealers, was designed and constructed by Scott Russell, at Max well, on the Thames. Work on the giant vessel was commenced in May, 185.^ She was successfully launched Jan. 13, 1S58. The launching itself occupied the time from Nov. 3, 1857, until the date above given. Ifcr total length was 600 feet, breadth 11S feet, total weight when launched 12,000 tons. Her first tripofaDy consequence was to New York was in i8sq-’6o. The largest ferry boat ever con structed was named Solano, and is To Close Out. We are offering our entire stock of Shoes aird Hats at and below cost. These goods must be sold by Sept. 1st, and we are offer ing unheard of bar gains in our line. All goods sold for the cash. Positively no more goods charged. We also offer our store fixtures for sale, and store house for rent. All parties indebt ed to us will please come forward and settle at once, as we want the money. LEVY’S Has Made a Bid GUT IN ALL LINES OF Continued on 4th page. 108 Broad St. To continue until closed out. Our remnant table is ful of choice BAR- gains, and will be all Summer. left, a few of our (j 3 A cts. Ging hams, worth 10 cts. Levys Dry Ms Erase