Show THE MODEL OP THE canth at the paris bip bitica an interesting euit st lown emif aoe of the novel ami interesting exhibits at the paris exposition is a of the earth accurately made to a scale of one millimeter to the kilometer or the onemia part of its natural size it is a sphere or nearly 42 feet in li ameter having painted on its surface all the details of the earths surface this globe is built up on a skeleton of wrought iron with the outside surface covered with wood to which are affixed the panels covered with bard varnish varni fh thia great work wag conceived and elaborated by M th villard and M ch cotard and it was carried out by M en 1 gincer and M albert architect A twelve sided iron and blobs globs structure with a dome covers the globe in this building an elevator lifts the visitor to u platform near the top and from tah point be descends by a spiral gallery of almost imperceptible slope which reaches the ground after a great many turns though the globe weighs nearly thirteen tons it can be eaddy rotated by a band wheel the surface is so great square feet that very considerable detail can be shown and large cities like paris even show a few of the main thoroughfares Asane duca dional feature it is especially useful in permitting the eye to more acau bately estimate continents than is possible with any plane surface map an exceedingly interesting series of statistical and geographical information ii also painted on the panels in the shape ot the population of continents cities etc sections of the earths crust the comparative para tive heights of lengths of rivers railways telegraph lines etc in the matter of telegrams received per of inhabitants it seems that australia comes first per and belgium and switzerland next with per the united stales comes in with ninety great britain with ninety and germany ends the list with forty the number of letters passing through the of the differ ent countries per inhabitant is given as follows in engineering in describing this globe great britain 40 australia 35 switzerland 30 belgium 15 united states 20 germany 20 holland 10 france 17 italy T spain 6 portugal 6 japan 3 russia 2 in the summary of ocean service as compared with the land we find that the five oceans cover square miles or 7 34 per cent of the earths surface while the five continents cover square miles or the remaining ag 6 per cent of the total As the highest mountain on the scale used would be only five sixteenths of an inch high no attempt has been made to show these in relief but they are shaded in the printing to appear in relief the coloring of the ocean represents by its intensity the depth in five shades ranging from a pale to a dark blue steamer routes are shown by various colors for the nations |