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Show AFRICAN LAKE .GOES DRY. Scientists Much Puzzled Over Peculiar Pe-culiar Happening. Lako Shlrwa, which has covered a considerable area of country to tho south of Lako Nyassa, in Africa, over slnco that region has been known to whito mou, lias now dried tin corn plotoly and local opinion (loads to tho theory that it lias vanished for good. Still, it would scarcely bo advisable for settlers to attempt tho creation of any garden c!tlo3 or other establish-j establish-j monts anywhere on tho hod of tho old lako, which might fill up again at any timo. Mon drlvo tholr buggies nnd rido tholr horsos along tho soft, sandy I beds of tho Australian rivers in times of long drought, but whon tho rains I como tho river steamers rcsumo their ! old places on tho nowly flushed streams. It is very odd that this great Shlrwa lako should vanish so com plotely without any asslgnablo reason and apprehension -is felt lest some-j some-j tiling of tho kind will happon to Nyassa or Tanganyika. |