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Show ' SPANNING THE WATERS. ; TnE largest and longest stone bridge I in the world i.-. over an arm of the China sea, five miles onj, threr hundred arches, each seventy feet high. The longest bridge in this country is the trestle which erodes a portion of Lake Pontehr.itiain, i.i Louisiana. Jt j is nearly twenty-live miles 'ng, Tuesday, May 24. was the ninth anniversary an-niversary of the opening of the Brooklyn Brook-lyn bridge. During this period the number num-ber of persons traveling over the bridge has averaged 40,000.000 a year. ! The largest wooden bridge in the world is that at Two .Medicine, on the St. Paul & Manitoba railwa-Jt is 751 feet long and 211 feet above the water. In this bridge are 730.000 feet of lumber, and any one piece can be removed and replaced when worn out without dis-turbing'-the rest. |