GARFIELD ROSE IS ROSE FRANK & ERNEST MUTTS THE GRIZZWELLS RHYMES WITH ORANGE BEETLE BAILEY HAGAR THE HORRIBLE REX MORGAN MODERATELY CONFUSED REALITY CHECK THE BORN LOSER This edition of Shortcuts is I feel sponsored by Ferris Bueller. this cartoon I wish is just taking What did George Ferris I had a day me for a say when he was told off. ride. to design his wheel? he organizers of the 1893 World’s I’ll get around Columbian Exposition in Chicago were looking for to it. a landmark structure to attract visitors. A bridge designer named George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. submitted a design for a gigantic wheel that he hoped would rival the Eiffel Tower. While Ferris’ completed wheel was only about one fourth the height of the Eiffel Tower, it stuck in people’s minds enough to make Ferris wheels popular amusement park rides all over the world. Ferris wheels are sometimes called “Pleasure wheels” with swings for observation wheels. seats began to gain popularity in Bulgaria and Turkey during the After the early 1600s. Can you find the hidden words? Why is Search carefully because some it difficult 1893 Exposition, George Early Ferris wheels called words are backward or diagonal. How do you to argue with Ferris’ wheel was dismantled. “ups-and-downs” were popular in thank a Ferris wheel? CARNIVAL WHEEL a Ferris wheel? It was reassembled in another England during the early 1700s. HIGH With a round of It will just give PLEASURE CIRCLE FAIR applause. you the run Chicago location, and then later CHICAGO DOWN RIDE around. dismantled and reassembled The London Eye receives WORLD EIFFEL BOB in St. Louis. about 3.75 million visitors per The High ROLLER FLYER EYE Roller observation year. It is the most popular paid FERRIS S TAR UP tourist attraction in England. wheel in Las Vegas is I S O L A T I O N B L U E currently the tallest Ferris E G G S A L T W A T E R L F L A S H V O L T Y F L C wheel in the world, at 167.6 Transportable m (550 ft.). It is followed Ferris wheels that can be George Ferris’ original wheel was P A C K I D I N E L F U R R U I N F A L N W P I N I by the Singapore Flyer in assembled, transported and then 80.5 m (264 ft.) tall. It could carry E S H R E E D O R P E F C Singapore, at 165 m (541 ft.), reassembled at multiple locations were 2,160 people in its 40 passenger L B C I E E R U S A E L P the Star of Nanchang in first designed about 200 years ago. cars. More than 1.4 million people L O O H G L A R D D C Y O China, at 160 m (525 ft.), They are popular attractions at paid 50 cents for a 20-minute O U W B D H T R I C K E Y and the London Eye in carnivals and fairs around ride. R P E A R L S R O S E R F England, at 135 m the world. (443 ft.). Can you help these kids avoid the scary Ferris wheel? Most smaller Ferris wheels rely on gravity to keep the cars upright. What Many Ferris wheels should you do with a new taller than the High Roller Ferris wheel? have been proposed for cities around Take it out for the world, including the Dubai Eye in a spin. Dubai, at 210m (689 ft.), and the Moscow View in Russia, at 220 m (722 ft.). For more information: “The Fantastic Ferris Wheel” by Betsy Harvey Kraft (Henry Holt) or “Mr. Ferris and His Wheel” by Kathryn Gibbs Davis (HMH Books for Young Readers). www.shortcutscomic.com Distributed by Andrews McMeel for UFS, Inc. © Jeff Harris 2020 5/25.