Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1891 — Large. [ARTICLE]

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The largest railway depot in the -world Ss at Birmingham, England. It covers eleven acres. An .army of locusts ten miles wide recently swept over the Punjab in India. It •occupied five days iu passing. The highest trestle on ,the line of the Northern Pacific Railroad is that across the Corsican defile, Missoula, Mont., 300 feet above the gorge below. Gladwin, eounty, Michigan, boasts -of having the largest frame barn in rthe •world. It is 156 feet long, 50 feet wide, and in its construction 500,000 foet -of lumber were used. The biggest horse in the world is now (the pride and glory of Detroit. The noble brute is 21 bands high, weighs '2,305 pounds, and is possessed.of remarkable intelligence. The largest lighthouse ilens in this (Country measures fifteen feet in height and eleven .and a half in width, the Internal diameter., or ■‘•‘ball's eye,” being eight feet .eight inches. Some laud in Paris has been sold at rthe rate .of $2,000,000 per acre;; some in London for what would net $5,000,000 per aer.e, and some in New York for a smn equal to $8,000,000 por acre. The British debt is so large that if it were divided into £1 notes they would completely cover the State of Ohio three times over. If paid in penny pieces, and each penny piledoue above the other, it would make seven columns of .copper reaching to tho moon.