Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1885 — The Biggest Bell. [ARTICLE]

The Biggest Bell.

Ihe largest hanging bell in the world is in agßuddhist monastery near Canton, China. It is .eighteen feet high and forty-five feet in circumference, and is, of solid bronze, t is one of eight great bells which were cast by command of the Emperor Young lo about A. D. 1400, and is said to have cost the lives of eight men, who were killed during the process of casting. The whole bell both inside and out, is covered with an inscription h: or. o d Chi osechar-ao-rors ab juc half an inch long, covering even the handle, the total number being 84,000. The characters tell a single story—one of Chinese classics. Jolm Cowdron, a tramp, died in the infirmary at Springfield, Ohio, and a doctor took off the skin, which is decorated with a series of rpmarkable etchings tattooed iifcolors, to preserve as a curiosity.