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Show New Niagara In South America. Last week thero returned from South America to New Orleans a party of explorers which Included scientists sci-entists from different Institutions, With a score ot natives they visited the Rio I,oon territory, near the equator, equa-tor, and penetrated a part never before be-fore seen by white msn. Among the discoveries waa a wondorful cascade which rivals that ot the Yosemlta In height and Niagara In volume. It Is crescent In form and haa eight cataracts, divided from each other by Islands smaller than thoso at Niagara, It la thought to bo only a question of a few years when thoso Islands will bo swept away and leave one vast cataract. Philadelphia Ledger. |