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Show Queer Feature of Drought. A curious feature of the recent break-up of tho protracted nnd devastating devas-tating drought In Australia was tho number of mlnlaturo volcanic explosions explo-sions In various parts ot tho common, wealth. Tho ground had become so parched and dry that it erncked, nnd the fissures thus formed beramo tho receptacles ot heated air. When the Iong-prayed-for downpour of rain enmo at last tho water met tho hot air In theso fissures, and llttlo gey-sors gey-sors and volcanoes wore niiiiiufncur-cd niiiiiufncur-cd In a moment. Many farmors, henr-Ing henr-Ing explosions and seeing columns of sttamy stuff nrlslng from the earth, wonderod what now plaguo had come to nfllict them. |