Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1896 — Read These For a Change. [ARTICLE]

Read These For a Change.

The Brooklyn bridge is 278 feet above the river. The porcelain tower at Nankin was 248 feet high. Garthage is the highest town in Kansas— 5,009 feet. Mt. Ophir, 13,500 feet high, is the tallest in Sumatra. The famous Mt. Hood, of Oregon, is 11,570 feet high. The Sea of Galilee, is 653 feet below TbeTffedfwmniean. Harvard Is the highest land in G010ard0—14,452 ard0—14,452 feet. • The Dead Sea, in Palestine, is 1,316 feet below sea level. Pine Knot is the highest place in Kentucky—l,42B feet. The Washington monument is 555 feet from base to tip. Vesuvius, the famous Italian volcano, is 3,392 feet high. The steeple of the Milan Cathedral is 355 feet in height. A part of New Orleans is below the level of the river. Alaska has four mountains, each over 10,000 feet in height. Alta is the highest town in lowa—--1,519 feet above sea level. Warren Is located on the highest land in Illinois—l,oos feet There is an oak tree in the State of Georgia that is twenty-seven feet in diameter. A blue gum tree in New South Wales, 482 feet high, is thought to be the tallest tree in the world. At Oroville, Cal., there is a cherry tree only 18 years old, which is six feet through the trunk. The magnolia tree was named after a French professor, Magnol, a naturalist, who died in 1715. One variety of the India rubber tree has bright green leaves that ate edged with flaming rod. The sacred bo-tree of Ceylon is said to have sprung from a slip of the tree under which Buddha was born. The estimated age of a dragon tree at Orotava is 5,000 years, but it is not authentic, like the record of the Lombardy cypress. The oldest known living tree is the soma cypress in Lombardy, which the records say was standing and of unknown age in 42 B. C. Two large white gum trees in Guatemala have grown in such a manner that the foundations of a church have been shifted seven inches.