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Show Queer Feature of Drought. A cm Ions feature of the recent breakup of tho piotracted nnd devastating devas-tating drought in Australia was tho number of mlnlaturo volcanic explosions explo-sions In various units of tho commonwealth. common-wealth. Tho ground had become so parched and dry that It cracked, and the fissures thus farmed Locarno tho receptacles of heated ulr. When tho lone -ived-for downpour of lain come at last tho water met tho hot air In these fissures, and llttlo gey-surs gey-surs ami volcanoes wnro mauufacur-cd mauufacur-cd In n moment. Many farmers, hearing hear-ing explosions and seolng columns of steamy stuff arising fiom the eutth, wondered what now plaguo had como to allllct thorn. |