Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1898 — EARTH’S HIGH PLACES. [ARTICLE]

EARTH’S HIGH PLACES.

’ The Biff el tower to 800 feet hig* Vesuvius, the famous Italian votatoMh to M 32 feet high. The famous Menat Hood, of OrefMh la 11370 foot high. The Washington menumeat is OM feet from base to tip. Pine Knot is the highest place in KOh tacky, 1,428 foot One of the highest peaks in the AndM to Sorata, 25,880 feet The towers of the cathedral of Eg* togne are 511 feet high. The statue of Liberty In New YsH harbor is 305 feet high. The most extreme altitude in Alaahn to Mount St Ellas, 16,508 feet Mount Shasta, the oeiebrated vol* cane of California, to 14,«e feet Strom boll, the island volcano, off the Italian coast, is 8,850 feet high. There are twenty-seven mountain# Hi Nevada more than 10,000 feet high. The dome of the Capitol in Washing* ton is 800 feet above the pavement Wyoming has forty-four mountain peaks, eact of more than 10,000 foot Mount Washington, 6,288 feet Mg* is the highest peak in New Hampehu< There is no mountain 10,000 foot high on the American continent east at the Rookies. Popocatepetl, 17,775 foot above the sea, is regarded as the highest stova tlou in Mexico. Mount Olympue, whose summit Hta mer made the abode of the gods, M 0,754 feet high. The cross on the dems of St Potarta in Rome, Is 446 feet above the pave* meat of ths portico. The pyramid of Oheops is 548 feet but about thirty feet of the former to* Was ages ago removed. Mount Sinai, the mountain from wbtah the law of Moses is said to have been delivered, la 8,000 feet high. Pike’s Peak, whore gold was first dtocovered oh this side of the Rocky Mountains, is 14,820 feet high. High peaks are numerous in Qotagado; there are in that State of mountains 178 peaks, each of which towers above the sea to a height greater than IMM feet