Show science called oti on to come to natures aid some alarm lias bas been caused recent ly by the announcement that the mat terhorn Is in a distinctly snaky shaky coudon and may topple over into the italian valley above which it towers similar fears were entertained some twenty years ago regarding the rocher de la causette Clu sette in n the jura which then threatened to fall all into the valley of the adeuse happened the tha valley bould have been blocked and the flow ot of water on which the district depended for its supply of electricity tri city would have been stopped immediate action had to be taken to avert tills this calamity which would have bare plunged the countryside in darkness and disorganized atil zed its transport engineers rushed to the spot the tha mountain was shored up with concrete and nil all was well once more |