Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1893 — WORLD’S WONDERS. [ARTICLE]

WORLD’S WONDERS.

St. Louts Globe-Democrat. A fly has 16,000 eyes. There are 250,000 varieties of insects. Some butterflies lay over 200,000 eggs. The first paper makers were the wasps. The average height of the elephant is nine feet. Tortoises have been known to live 300 years, Geese in migrating often travel 6,000 miles. • The strongest fortress in the world is Gibraltar. The Nile has a fall of only six inches in 1,000 miles. There are 2,754 languages and dialects now spoken. There are forty-eight varieties of the common fly. A single tobacco plant will produce 360,000 seeds. The largest cave is the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky. The largest mammoth! tusk yet discovered was sixteen feet. At the equator the average annual rainfall is 100 inches. At the equator the limit of perpetual snow is 14.700 feet. The speed of the falcon often exceeds 150 miles an hour. The most beautiful palace in the world is the Alhambra.

An ocean racer burns about $13,000 worth of coal every trip. - Condors have been killed in Peru with wings of 40 feet spread. Ifc Northern Siberia the ground is frozen to a depth of 600 feet. The shark cannot seizo his prey without turning on his back. | The tail of the beaver gave the hint for the trowel of the mason. The will-o’-the-wisp is caused by the decay of vegetable matter. A teaspoonful of microbes contains over 4,000,000 individuals. Botanists say that there are upward of 50,000 varieties of plants. The earth receives oniy one twobillionth of the heat of the sun. The greatest depth of the ocean as far as sounded is 25,720 feet.