Dccembc-r 17, 1959 THE I-IQUNTAIN TRAIL 7 ©D© YTCDQJ mDW ? HERBERT HOOVER \ms the first President bom west of the I'fi.ssissippi River, TIGEE.are native only to Asia and are not found in Africa >ri.tli lions and .leopards. The wandering ALPA‘^R0S8 has the greatest wingspread of the entire bird kingdom. Their mngs often measure 11 feet from tip to tip. The PIG outranks the horse in intelligence. The big PITHOM sometimes eat mammals weigh ing 150 poimds. The REINDEER has 6 stomachs, ELOOD circulates from the heart through about 12;,00 miles of blood vessels, the distance from New York to Hong Kong by way of the Panama Canal. The apple, pear, quj.nce, berries, peach, apricot, plum, and cheriy arc all members of the ROSE family, ATOl-IS are so small that f a drop of water were magnified the size of the earth, the atoms in the dxcp I'oal.d be smaller than an orange. And.,.if a person wore the size of an atom, all the people on the earth would fit into n space smaller than the point of a pin. Of every 1000 students who enter high school in the U. S., ijl? are graduated. Of these, lij6 go to college, but only 72 are graduated. The DIRT taken out of the Panama Canal would have built a wall 10 feet high and five feet wide around the earth. The entire ATI'iOSPHJiRE of the earth weighs nearly 6 million billion tons. An ounce of PLATINUl-I can be hammered out into a txhin.i-Tire that would reach from New York Ci-fiy to New Orleans, If MOlffi'IT EVEREST were sunk in the deep est part of the ocean it would be more than a mile below the surface of the vrater. And,,.if the surface of the earth was leveled off, the entire globe would be covered by water ij miles deep. There are more than 1,200 known iuner- ican Indian languages or dialects, A modem heavy BOMBER holds enough fuel to drive a car around the world l6 times. The oldest canal in existence, with parts of it still in use, is the GaiND CiJ'-IiLL of China, It was finished by Kublai Khan about 1280 A, D, The ijyL'iZON RIVER is more than 200 feet deep and 1^0 miles mde at its mouth. About 750 different kinds of fish live in the water, jilso the river pushes fresh water mor^ than 100 miles into the Atlantic Ocoan, The hottest SPRirG in the world is in Icelando De^-p in the spring the water is 50 degrees above that of the boil ing point. The Greenland ICE CiOP, up to ' feet thick covers an area of about 700,000 square miles. If it were to ^clt, the oceans of the earth would rise 2h feet. The BLACK SlLiLLOVJER, a, small fish of the deep sea, can easily swallow and digest a fish 2 or 3 times its own size. The EiiRTH is probably more than 2,000,000,000 years old. The diameter at the equator is 7,926.56 miles, and the ‘diameter through the North and South polos is '7,d99»7h miles, /ill facts from "Every Vj'eek" obtained by Jessie Harbison

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