Where the Earth Is Drylnr. All tho dredging that can be done in New York harbor haa failed to permanently perma-nently deepen it. The growing shallowness shallow-ness of Hudson river is noticeable, and. like the outlet to Luke Charaplain, which was once navigated by Indian canoes at all seasons, the upper Hudson is now al- most bare of water during the summer. Tlie Des Moines river, in Iowa, once nay- j israted to the mouth of the Raccoon fork, j the present site of the city of DesMomes, will now hardly float a fisherman's row-boat row-boat The steamboat has not pkwed its bosom for over a quarter of a century. In all pari of the world there is the eame decrease in the waters of rivers and lakes. St. Louis Republic.