Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1890 — Large Reservoirs, [ARTICLE]

Large Reservoirs,

Omitting lakes, which are .in many cases natural reseivoirs, the largest reservoir or artificial lake in the world is the great tank of Dhebar, twenty miles southeast of Udaipur City, Bajputana Province, India. It covers an area of twenty-one square miles. The masonry dam is 1,000 feet long by 96 feet high; 50 feet wide at the base, and 15 at the top. In Southern India, also, there are some immense reservoirs. That of Cumden in Guddapath district is formed by damming the Gundlakamana River by a dam fifty-seven feet higii thrown between two hills. The reservoir has an area of fifteen square miles. The Sluekere reservoir in Mysore state is a very little smaller, and, next to Cumbum, is the #nest in Southern India. Compared with these artificial lakes, Loch Katrine (supplying Glasgow), four and one-half square miles, and Vyrnwy reservoir (supplying Liverpool), nearly two square miles, are insignificant in size. The Manchar tank in Scinde has an area et onfe hundred and eighty square miles, but only when fed by the waters of the river during the months of flood. In dry months it shrinks to quite a small area. The growing together of the middle , and end bones of the little toe is of frequent occurrence and has been attributed to tight boots. A German anatomist, however, finds about the same percentage of cases in men and children as in women, and concludes that the phenomenon is a normal tendency to a change of structure just beginning before our eyes, “It was a pretty piggish thing in Eve to eat the apple when she had everything else she wanted.” “Oh, well what could you expect? She was only* sparerib, anyhow.”