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Show Magnetic Traveling Stones. They have walking stones in Australia, Austra-lia, and, as we are informed, they have traveling stones in Nevada. Here is a de cription: They were almost perfectly round, the majority of them as large a walnut and of an irony nature na-ture When distributed about upon the floor, table, or any other level sur face, within two or three feet of each other, they immediately begin travel ing toward a common centre, and there huddle up in a bunch, like a lot of eggs in a r.est. A single stone rerr.oved to a distance of three and a half feet, upon being released at once started off with wonderful and somewhat comical celerity i o join its fellows; taken away four or five feet, it regained motion less. They are fouml in a region that, although comparatively level, is noth ing but barren rock. Scattered over this barren region are little basins from a few feet to a rod in diameter, and it is in the bottom of these that the rolling stones are found. They are from the size of a pea to five or six inches in diameter. The causeof these stones rolling together is doubtless to be foun I in the material of which they are composed, which appears to bo lodestone. or magnetic iron ore. Seaside Sea-side Oracle. |