The largest grain elevator in the world is at Minneapolis, United States, America. It is 336 feet long, 92 feet wide, and 175 high. It has a storage capacity for 2,000,000 bushels of prain. Over 6,500,000 feet of lumber was used in its construction, besides 32 car-loads of nails, amounting in the aggregate to 10,000 common kegs. The engine used is capable of handling 185,000 to 200,000 bushels of grain per day, or enough during the year to equal the combined products of the State of Minnesota and the two Dakotas. Two hundred and fifty cars have often loaded at this elevator in 10 hours. • This BEST MISDIOINK known is.Sandkk and Son's ICuCAI.vPTi EXTRACT.—Test its eminent powerful effects in coughs, colds, influenza; the relief is Instantaneous. In serious cases anil accidents of all kinds, be they wound*, burns, scaldings, bruises, sprains, it is the safest remedy—no swelling, no inflammation. Like surprising effects produced in croup diphtheria, bronchitis, inflammation of thy lungs, swellings, <fco , diarrhoea, dysentery, diseaaeaof tho kidneys and urinary organ*. "In use at hospitals ami medical cliniaiall ovm- tlio globo ; patronised by His Majesty the King of Italy ; crowned with medal anddiplomaatlnternational Exhibition, Amsterdam Trust m this approved artiolo, and reject all otheia,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8557, 4 May 1891, Page 5
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