Show fungi visitors to ancient wine vaults or damn coal pits aru sometimes alon lilice bv the curious fungi alic walls with gruesome tapestry but instance 0 this kind is thrown into alie by the extraordinary growths which davd recently been discovered in socio 0 the deserted moal can silver mines of nevada tho dank warm timber galleries and drafta ot old workings abandoned to them for year silently given birth to a monstrous brood of morbid vegetation winch apparently lias no parallel in the regions of tho sunlight ami the upper nir in general they arc all of a showy and some of the hooded masses risu up several feet from the ground like sheeted ghosts others in alin distance lalo tho form of bearded goals or sleeping owls hoi great bundles of ion whito hair hang down from alio llio and their huge pulpy masses cucumber the boor like conil tho latter appear to haro sprung miraculously from something spilled upon tho rocks in past days wh ld the former seem to have crystallized like hoarfrost hoar frost from tho al itself some of tho rounded biasca have actually lifted up from tho bloor blocks of stone weighing ten efly ami even pounds to i height of in tho higher level of tho mines tho air fa drier abo fungi airo far lck bulky than below and much ithmer in tox turc tho shapes hero arc however more elaborate and beautiful one kind grows in 1 twisted spiral like a ranis horn to a length of live feet and lianes from tho rafters like a trophy of alio llio chase or rather liko a suspended by tho tail another sort sends out a stem alio llio thickness of a pencil to a height of one or two feet where it blossoms into a buli bous knob something like a lower nothing like the toadstool or tho com mon mushroom H to bo found and iho wondrous growths leavo all the aspect of being called into a special being by the peculiarities of their environment exchange tho salt lako tribune declares that polygamous marriages still occur in utah and gives the names of several cormons mormons who increased their number of wives in the endowment on ono day |