Show tulare lake is probably the mo sl mysterious on the continent it is located on a reat three hundred iches south of san frant bisco at a distance the water appears to be higher than the land A mile or nutae before reaching the water chehy land of the plain gives and when nt last the margin atthe lake is found buu may wade into it for more than a mile before finding it knee deep the lake is about forty miles long the bottom is formed of clam shells and there are hundreds of small bunches the kalanui u o tenanted ten anted by millions of white birds of the gull kind and upon one of them fourteen human ratified in a circle were lately lound no other bones lying near mounds have been discovered along the shore and it is expected that the whole bottom of alie lake will reveal traces of a submerged city teeth are ties troyed either by the action of acids bior the development ftc vegetable parasite the is the much more frequent chuao of decay it has been demonstrated by actual experiment that even very weak acids may suffice to decompose the letb substances in forty beigh hours the juice of grapes will render the enamel of a chalky consistence most vegetable aro inert until fermentation taka place and acetic acid is formed animal sub stances exert no deleterious influence until putrefaction is far ads vasceil ceil the severity of the past winter in franco caused great injury to trees and vines the damage sustained by the paris parks i indicated by the tact that in the don da boulogne evergreens ever greens fire and deciduous trees are required to ill up gaps while in the champs trees were killed the total loss to paris alone in he barks avenues and nurseries is estimated at a million francs J q secure valuable hinis for agriculture ests and others the trench minister agriculture prefects to report what lend of pinea fruit trees and vinos bulleted Bull ered arost from the cold i an english traveler reports the discovery of two peculiar varieties of tea in western china mhd of one species is naturally sweet having the taste of coarse congou with u plentiful addition of sugar it is known only to the natives of a very limited extent of country the second variety is even more remarkable having a natural flavor of milk or perhaps more exactly of batter it grows wild and every pait of the plant except the leaves is used in the infusion prof loomis shows that over the united alie rate of pro grena of storm centrex is an average twenty ux miles an hour whereas over the fourteen milea and 01 hp continent of europe n shown by yeu mayer it does nol exceed sixteen miles an hour in this connection it is pointed out that the winds on the atlantic aro stronger than they are over either of alte continents and ahe winds of central europe are stronger than tho winda uto anted states ajaj anxiety the poison of life the ot many siba pud of more no imn can be a christian and t ame time alin man who mind li own ins I a good beeady employment if wo alo not flatter tho of others will not hurt iiii ciuci men opportunities han i i inan opens ins mouth emesi i s i ital tA oart READERS arc familiar with ho principle of tho early inhabitants of this continent the book of mor anon has given their history to an incredulous world years before the scientific men made their archaeological discoveries now comes the infer ocean with bonio limited mation the mound builders were a race of people very different in their habits and oc life from the indians who occupied all the country at tho time of the advent of the whites they are now regarded as a distinct and extinct race of their history very little ii known except what can be gathered from tho mounds and wall which they built racist of these aro made of earth or gravel they are usually found overgrown by living and decaying trees from which we have the proof that they have been abandoned at least a thousand years we have proof also that tho mound builders worked the copper mines of lake superior lead mines near lexington ky and oil wells in canada and pennsylvania the remains of the mound builders are spread over ft vast extent of the country they are found in the sources of the allegheny in the western part of alie state of mew york and in nearly allot the Yc stern states including michigan and iowa they line the shores of the gulf of mexico from texas to florida whence they extend through alabama and georgia into south carolina from all the facts known little more can be said alian this that the valley of tha mississippi and the atlantic coast were densely populated by a sedentary agricultural and partially civilized race quite different from the modern indians though possibly the progenitors of some of the indian tribes and that after many centuries of occupation they disappeared from our country at least one thousand perhaps many thousands of years before the advent of the europeans |