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Show Oak Splits a Rock. A wonderful freak or imtitio Is an oak troo In tho far West, which has grown up from a sapling into 11 wide-spieallng, wide-spieallng, hnndsoino tree, through a rock of flint stono, splitting tho mas-slvt mas-slvt rock by the trornendous pressuro of Its vigorous growth. No one living knows how long nature has been assisting as-sisting this oak In lis work of stono-crushlng. stono-crushlng. Tho oldest peoplo in iho neighborhood recall tho treo In their childhood, ami exports In forestry say that It must ho fully 200 years old. |