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Show Miscellany Ocean Depths. The deepest regions of the ocean are commonly close to the shore, and are believed to have been caused by the crumpling- in of the earth's crust due to the pressure of the near land. Such Is the "Tus'i'ai'ora deep," a Ion?, narrow trough which extends northward from Japan along the const of its bot tom being" more than 27.601 feet below the surface of the sea and 12.600 feet lie-low lie-low (he general level of the ocean's floor. An even more profound abyss is the Aid-rich Aid-rich deep, close to the Ton fra n and Ker-mandec Ker-mandec islands, which sinks to a depth of 3 , ;n 0 feet. The greatest yet found, however, is the Swire deep, off Mindanao of the Philippines, this being1 feet, or "OSO f?'-t deeper' than Mount Everest, of the Himalayas, is hi,;li. However, one Sains an idea of the rarity ' of such abyssal regions from the fact that of the 9750 soundings that have been made and reported in water over lfK.il) fathoms in depth, only seventeen were greater than '1000. and only three exceed 5000 fathoms I in depth. The greatest recorded depth I of the ocean is only 4 OS fret, more than I six miles. Sciontltic Monthly. ; Displacing- King Coal. j King Con fa very much harassed in his former undisputed lipids. The electrifying elec-trifying of strain plants, mines, factories and even railroads Is going ahead at a steadily Increasing rate, but while coal may, . imperceptibly so far, lose some : business in the dnmest t'1 ma rke I . p purt sales mit lii'Trasitm. Iiv-p-inlnct plants: are being e rue led, and operators are look- ing forward to the time when the wasteful waste-ful and costly methods of coal transportation transpor-tation will be done away with, and electricity elec-tricity will be produced right at the mine and be transported cheaply and cpd'-kly to the consumer, cooking your dinner, heating your house, running your factory, or carrying you across the continent, untroubled un-troubled from soot and cinders. What change such a transformation may make is best demonstrated by what it has done for the Pacific coast, an especially es-pecially for San Francisco. However, electricity had less to do with this change than oil, which has supplanted coal to an extent at first unthouyht of. All harbor har-bor and coastwise, as well as ail transpacific trans-pacific shipping, is using oil for fuel. Gas is made from oil, and the residue is pressiil into briquettes. . The factories use oil. and the oil stove warms the house in the rainy season. Tle consumption of coal in San Francisco Fran-cisco was as foilows: 18 SO, 77,635 tons; 1S70. o20. !!!3 tons; 1SS0, t5 l,US tons; and 1 . 018. 120 tons. The highest tonnage was reached In 1000, with close to 1.-1)00,000 1.-1)00,000 tons. From that date on fuel oil became a factor. In 1010 coal consumption consump-tion had shrunk-to 5?5.236 tons, and to less than 400,000 tons in 3915, although the population Increased. Wall Street Journal. |