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Show MINIATURE VOLCANOES. From the New York Commercial Advertiser. Adver-tiser. A curious feature of the break-up of the protracted and devastating drought In Australia was the number of miniature volcanic explosions In various parts of the commonwealth. The ground had become so parched and dry that it cracked, and the fissures thus formed became the receptacle re-ceptacle of heated air. When the long-praved-for downpour of rain came at last the water met the hot air In these fissures, fis-sures, nnd little geysers and volcanoes were manufactured m a moment. Many farmers, hearing the explosions and seeing see-ing columns of steamy stuff arising from the earth, wondered what new plague had come to afflict them, and whether they were out of the frying pan into the fire. |