Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1891 — Marvels of Bigness. [ARTICLE]

Marvels of Bigness.

It is commonly supposed that America possesses the tallest trees in the world, but that is not the case. Her highest specimen is Said to be a sequoia gigantea near Stockton. California, 325 feet in height, and this i? surpassed by two eucalyptus trees in Victoria, Australia, which reach 435 and 450 feet respectively. But we can console ourselves with the knowledge that we have, at any rate, the most elevated lake in the world— Green Lake, Colorado, 10,252 feet above sea level and in some places 300 feet deep; the largest single pane of glass, 186 by 104 inches, made in Marseilles, France, and set in a store front in Cincinnati, Ohio; and the largest coil spring ever rolled —a steel spring 6 inches wide, 1-4 inch thick and 310 feet long, made at Alleghany City, Penn,, and after all the large European iron work 3 had declined the order. And Harper’s Young People, which names these among other marvels of bigness, describes also a miracle of smallness—rthe writing of 4,100 words on the blank side of a postal card, by John J. Taylor, of Streator, 111. It was done without artificial aid, and must have taxed the skill of the performer as much as the statement does the credulity of the reader.