| Show leot HOT SPRINGS OF dr F fon eon 1 vo jilch s t esteri of dhe the au austrian q I 1 i scientific expedition des describes critts athe the wonderful region known as the i auckland lake district in australia i the principle attraction is Rot warm lake of which the writer says boiling water springs rise up along the banks and from the bottom of the lake the whole jake lake is warmed by them but the temperature of the water differs considerably in various places as it Is nearer or farther from the springs at many points even in the centre the thermometer rises from 86 deg dealo to deg F while near its stream ft lvis rs only deg fish of no kindlan kind can live in nit it the lake lahe is a favorite resort of innumerable aquatic birds that build their their nests on its warm banks while they find their food in the waters and swamps of the cold lake roto koto maka nirl rini visitors who intend to stay a few days at the lake are recommended by the natives to select as their quarters the small island pual this is a rock 12 feet high long and nearly feet wide the continual roaring rushing singing buzzing boiling bailing sound with the intense heat of the ground around impresses a feeling of terror tiie the whole island is nothing but a torn and fracture drock softening and decomposing by steam and gas and may at any moment tumble b le to ml pieces aces and vanish in the hot water of the e lake hot water bubbles babbles up everywhere e and whenever ahole adole is s made in the ground hot steam bursts forth which is used for cooking potatoes and meat on the eastern bank are the most important of the springs the most magnificent of all hot springs at present known the tarata at the northeastern end of the lake like 80 feet above the level within a crater open towards the side of the lake 80 feet long by 60 feet broad and filling up to the brim with clear boiling water which issues in the centre several feet higher looking beauli keau i i I 1 fully blue in its snow hanow white in t basin enormous clouds of steam rising upwards ariy aria are reflected in the blua hiu blu mirror of the basin the temperature of the water 1 which probably reaches to boiling point polut in the centre is 1032 loo 1032 3 2 degrees F near the rim of the tilo basin neither alkaline nor acid it lias has a slightly salts taste and possesses as I 1 in a high deame t e property of olinc lu the bedim sediment ent consists as ap in itt the hot springs I 1 6 f iceland of silien alid the overl overflow ha has s formed in the tee sibbe slope dahe hilla hlila hill a system of crystal terraces which appear almost as white as marble presenting a sight almost impossible to describe it Is as if a cascade rushing rf ishin overstep over steps shad had been suddenly arrested and transformed into stone atone I 1 A path leads from the foot of the tarata spring through the bush great spring the basin lof this spring is 40 feet long and 30 feet broad the water within it is b stant agitation moments the water is quiet in the cauldron cauldren caul dron when it again bubbles up and is thrown eight or ten feet high 1 and aud a foaming surf of 01 bollin boiling glio traves hot waves wavea ov erthe walls wails of th basin so that the observer is obliged timidly to retreat the thermometer in mo ometer meter rises in these springs Dros to 2084 2084 I 1 degrees F further furthers south u th close to the banks is situated the T I 1 a boiling lolling badh ba sah of 10 feet in diameter the trie eyser eruption of which rises to a beight of 40 feel there are about 25 large hot springs and a number of small smail mones and is on only ly one ant of a vent in the earth about lues rues long and 17 miles wide extending from the active volcano tongariro to white island a mountain of puff pure sulphur who feet high some tomile ico iso ou ousbea out tavla taVia sea Bea H fj lails s TV 4 V i T r URE OF OP voon frd frow FROM 3 Y binh t tre eg some gome years ears cars ago report reports s were bubli published in the technological jou sou journals nals of austria concerning concer neng the manufacture of wool from pine trees noly noy bed coverings woven en arm tim pine fabre fibre are in use in hospitals prisons and barracks in silesia and austria and in the iun jun woven unwoven state it is used for the stuffing of mattresses cushions chair seats and other articles the cost is said to be abut one third that of horsehair horse hair and there is the further advantage that owing to its aroma aromatic tid properties the pine ine lne repels the tiie insects that too frequently lodge in woolen textures lAt hamm t excitement T alo ako AMONG THE chef thel heh hel indian ocra gera ota Gra a portuguese e journal odonal published at goa gloa says a gra greata hta hii excitement has been caused among the jews aws at bombay by the by their pontis pontiff H B koyn who has late inte lately y arrived from jerusalem of a pamphil pamphlet e t entitled the voice of tile tiie the vigilant 11 the object of this voice being to persuade the jews that it is useless waiting longer for the promised messiah as this is jesus christ himself whose doctrines have been spread all over over the world without sound or force compare says the tile ponti pontiff fr 11 theOld the oid old and new testaments and the truth will be seen he says that he be was born in abe the 0 old oid d law a and under it was elevated to th the e pont pontificate but th elight had already penetrated with its rays into the deep recesses of and he is therefore persuaded and with well founded reasons reas s that it is in vain that the messiah pon son is now looked for RITUALISM IN ix DORSET SHIRE A county meeting was held in dorset shire on thursday evening against recent cen t ritualistic innovations under the presidency of the earl eari of shaftesbury at which the county members lord lord portman and a large number of magistrates saua sanA and aud clergy were present in the course of his speech the noble earl said that women were the cause of the whole mischief of ritualism and iffe w e must have romanism Bo it should be with the proviso that every confessor nil all be a woman and when that became the law of the church there would at once be an end of the confessional A DuTOn MA hi fil C canada a i had two pigs a large anda hilda and hild a small malls one the ane being ing ang theelder the elder eider lie was wa trying U lo 10 explain to a customer and and did it in this wie wise the little pig I 1 is the biggest 11 upon which his wife assuming lilli to correct him said sald y you 0 u will please excuse riua him h he no speak as good english as ine me lie he no mean the little pig is the ilg Fig figgess biggest pig gest but the youngest ru nig is the olt ole oldest e la 14 if t yr a I 1 ciri elii 1 I 1 I 1 kil 1 1 l L IVA tris certain certa Tn I 1 sas SUS subs 1 tha W bd lanct lanet that many ladies carry about with aillem them in their chignons chignone chig the seeds eeds of ringworm an ni malady alady there js is also a noro nono novel nore ledema le poma pema 5 iii fair sain r nl in che the ni market arket 1 ft is fis oam eama d i ct churchyard hair and consists not only or of the thie shafts beit but the roots also abid hence k m aist have been from the scan sean of t the dead X J 1 4 JS J S ft ab 1 I THE W wisconsin state horticultural society ocl oci ety at its recent me feeling pling eLing two premiums ou on cultivated ford forest st trees one of one hundred dollars for the best ten acres and another of fifty dollars for the best five agres acres tobe moue to planted ted the se 1 as on and talf the e awards to be made et at three years old or in 1870 |
