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Show Moscow rioPLE are indignant over the propoaition to remove their great bell useless aB it is from its place in the Bteeple. They Bay it shall never be taken down. It is of no earthly account, except that it is the largest bell in tho world weighing 443 772 pounds. Moscow hos another bell that weighs 141,000 pounds. The other famous bells are "light weights" in comparison lo these. Pekin h..s one weighing 130,000 pounds; Novgorod, Nov-gorod, 09,000; Vienna, 40,000; Sens, 34,000; Parliament house, London, 31,000; Erfurt, 30,000; Montreal, 29000; Cologne, 25,000; York, 24,-000; 24,-000; Bruges, 23,000; Kerne, 19,000; Oxford, 17,000; Antwerp. 10,000; St Paul's, London, 13,000. |