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Show "Drain of an Mitotic Tree. An historic tree, on the old I3Jcr WInson farm. In Johnston, It. I., has been felled. It was a chestnut, and had been utilized hytheDorr-ites hytheDorr-ites In the exciting times of the war as a hiding-place for guns. It stood in an open field on the farm. The trunk, which was 9 feet 4 inches in diameter, had been hollow as long as "any one living can remember," re-member," and a tail man could enter and stand erect with several Inches to spare above his head. One of the limbs measured 4 feet In diameter; di-ameter; the tree was cut n because be-cause there was danger of itsTSlllnj. Ftdla&tlphla Ledger. |