Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1880 — Facts for the Curious. [ARTICLE]

Facts for the Curious.

Ninevah was fourteen miles long, eight miles wide and forty-six miles round, with a wall thick enough for three chariots abreast; Babylon was fifty miles within the Walls, which were -sev-enty-five feet thick and one hundred feet high, with hbd hundred brazen gates. The temple of Diana at Ephesos, was four hundred and twentyfoefc totbweupport of the Troof—it wa# one hundred years in building. The, largest of the pyramids was four hund*e&and eightyone foet in height, and eight hundred and fifty-three feet on the eides. The base covers eleven acres. The stones are about sixty feet in length, and the layers are two hundred and eight. It employed 350,000 men in building. The Labyrinth in Egypt contains three hundred chambers and twelve halls. Thebes, in Egypt, presents ruins twenty-seven miles round, and contained 350,000 citizens and 400, 000 slaves. The Temple of Delphos was so rich in decorations, that it was plundered of $50,000,000, and the Emperor Nero carried away from it two hundred statues. The walls of Rome were thirteen miles round.