Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1878 — A Big Bell. [ARTICLE]

A Big Bell.

The people of Moscow declare that their great bell shall never be pulled down from its glittering steeple, where it reigns over all other church-bells in the world. Its weight is 443,772 pounds, while the other famous bells are light in comparison: St. Paul’s, London, 13,000 pounds; Antwerp, 16,000; Oxford, 17,000; York, 24,000; Montreal, 29,000; Rome, 19,000; Bruges, 23,000; Cologne, 25,000 ; Erfurt, 30,000; English House of Parliament, 31,000; Vienna, 40,000; Novgorod, 69,000; Pekin, 136,000; Sens, 34,000; Moscow (its second), 141,000. The great bell of Moscow is nineteen feet high and sixty-four feet round; its noise is tremendous,