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Show ." WORTH VISITING, -v. . Tils largest pyramid in Egypt ia US yards high. , It is asserted that the oldest building in the world Is the tower of London. " PlESta. has' a race of pigmy camels who are but' twenty-five inches high and weightmt fifty pounds. . Moscow's 'famous broken beil is 23 feet in dJameU-r and SI feet 8 inches high.. . It Weighs 43,77; pounds and is used as a chaiel. The oldest armchair in, the world is. the throne once used by Queen Hatafu, who flourished in Egypt 160O B. C. ;lt is made of ebony, beautifully carved, and is so hardened with age. as . to appear ap-pear to be carved frotn blaokniarble. -A sVivy.- platcglaas shade, .ornamented' .orna-mented' with gold and securely locked to three staples set In the marble top of a pulpit in a" church In Brussels, is said to cover one o the thorps which formed a part of the Saviour's crows.-" |