Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1895 — A Small Earth. [ARTICLE]

A Small Earth.

Four leading French scientists—Vlllard, Cotard, Seyrig and Tissandier—have succeeded in making a wonderful model of the earth. It is a huge sphere, forty-two feet in diameter and has painted on its outside all details of the earth’s geography. At Paris, where the pigmy world is being exhibited, an iron and glass dome has been erected over the globe. The building is eightsided, and is well provided with elevators and stairways, which make it an easy task for the visitor to examine “all parts of the world.” The globe weighs eight tons, but is so nicely balanced that it can easily be rotajted by a small hand-wheel. The entire surface area is five hundred and twenty-five feet, which is sufficient to exhibit all the mountains, rivers, islands and cities, even to the principal thoroughfafes of the latter.