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Show London Has to Be Proud of Big Ben' One of the most conspicuous structures struc-tures in Loudon is the tower of the houses of parliament that rises high above the pavement near Westminster i, . r: abbey nnti the neignooring unci , Thames and seems to watch from its great height all the many activities of ' the largest city in the world. The in-' in-' side of this tower contains a staircase of SCO steps and when one lias climbed to the top one is in the room containing contain-ing the mechanism of one of the largest larg-est clocks in the world, the clock known as Big Ben, and which has marked time for London for many a year. It Is Impossible to understand the size of this giant of a clock as one stands on the ground, but If one measures meas-ures Its four faces one finds tliem to be 23 feet across, which means a distance dis-tance equal to that of four average men standing on each other's heads. The minute hands are 14 feet long ; they would reach higher than an average av-erage room. The swinging pendulum weighs nearly fiOO pounds. The figures fig-ures on the faces are each two feet long and the minute spaces are a foot square. While the minute hand of your little watch jumps in very small spaces, the minute band of f'Ag Ben jumps a foot at a time. |