Show remarkable RIVERS the of an albran alter madfes auld the subterranean rivers of tho world ot which the oae in the mammoth cavo ot kentucky Is usually reckoned aa the most unique are generally set down in lists of natural curiosities as greatest wonders in the line of waterways bufa such lista however are nol always reliable to the mind of ye curious man there are other rivers which have a element of the marvelous to admit them into categories of the wonderful algeria spain and india for instances each have rivers within borders which are com pos ednot of water hut of ink that in algeria Is water until after the union of two of its principal tribu baries one of which flows through a country strongly impregnated with iron the other bomes from a peat bog the chemical action of the iron on the palblo acid from the peat hakea a beautiful writing fluid the webbe Sheb eyU an african river is one of tho wonders of the dark continent although it is a langei flowing river almost as large as our own missouri for hundreds of miles through a fertile country it never reaches the sea thirty miles before its waters get to the point where they should rain gla with thosa of the ocean the whole stream sinks out ot into the sands of a desert st louis republic |