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SUNDAY MORNING. petrified trees OF ARIZONA. The Silicified Wood is Beauti fully Tinted. By D. Allen Willey. # IN the north western part of Apache County. Arizona, is located the most remarkable petrified forest yet discovered on the American continent, and wliat geologists believe '<> be the most wonderful specimens of silicified trees In the world. The for est is about eight miles square and was originally composed principally of firs. It is located upon a plateau which is .V)00 feet above tide water, although the theory of geologists Is that the woodland in its natural state originally existed at a much higher altitude. It is in the centre of one of the most des olate parts of the West, surrounded for many miles by a country which yields principally sage brush and soap weed. The plateau on which the forest ex ists is divided into many small gorges and gulches, and the strata of which it is composed consists principally of beds of clay, sandstone and sandstone shale. Under a portion of the strata " n TIIE TWIN SISTERS. water tern be found at a depth of but a few feet, and it is believed that below it fire several subterranean water course#. The trees in various forms arc Scattered throughout the region, 'the majority consisting of fragments of trunks, although quite a number are in a vertical position. The great majority are completely petrified, as far as the wood is concerned, and have an outer coating of what seems to have once been sand and gravel. This coating, it is believed, was formed by the action of the elements and by the movement of the trees at different pe riods in the world's history. Geologists have divided the forest into what are termed three centres of accumulation, on the theory that much of the wood has been carried front one point to an other by natural phenomena In each of these centres of accumulation can be found logs and blocks from a few inches in diameter to five feet, while trunks in length range up to fifty feet, although the tree forming the Natural Bridge has been measured a distance of 111 feet to a point where it meets the standstone formation, its length, in the formation has not, as yet, been estimated. The beauty of the slllcified wood and Its hardness has attracted attention to the petrified,- forest by manufacturers, who have used it as a substitute for onyx and other material for the manu facture of table tops, clock cases, tiling for floors, and even curious jewelry. Tl)C> position of the various trees in i.u- * \ M AN AGATIZED LOG BRIDGE. the forest makes it exceedingly pictur esque, but since 1803, when It was first discovered, but comparatively few tourists have explored it, owing to the difficulty in crossing the gorges and in climbing the mesas and other forms. Some of the trees have been found pro jecting from deposits of what were evidently at one time volcanic lava and ashes as high as twenty-five feet above the volcanic foundation. Others are on the edges of the gulleys lying like gigantic cannon, as if protecting the locality from the intruder. In some portions of the forest trunks are piled as neatly as if they had been arranged for the sawmill, ten to fifteen being counted in one lot. As will be noted by the accompany illustrations a large number of them are In lengths of but a few feet and at a distance looked like great cart wheels. As their cen tres aue beautifully tinted.with the col ors referred to the scene in the sunlight is so brilliantly dastfUnjc that the vis itor could imagine himself in a sort of earthly paradise were it not for the desolate surroundings formed by the clay, sandstone and volcanic forma tions. Probably the most remarkable feat ure of the forest is the Natural Bridge already referred to. This forms a thoroughfare across one of the gal leys or canyons upon which a man can safely travel and which has been crossed by a sure-footed mule. The bridge consists merely of a huge tree trunk, which, it is believed, lias never moved from the original section in which it fell. The centre of the trunk shows that ILis completely silicified. The exterior* coated with a sort of cement made of sand-rock, in which geologists believe it was originally im bedded. At the middle it measures ten feet in circumference and at the base four feet in diameter. No branches, however, of any kind can be found upon it, nor are there any indications that branches have ever grown from the trunk. The supposition is that the gniley has been formed by the action of the elements washing away the for mation from beneath the trunk as it lay where it originally fell and that its first bed was upon the solid ground. Several theories of the petrifaction of these trees have been advanced. One is that ages ago a volcanic shower bur ied a number of forests in the South west and that the action of water in later periods produced the necessary chemical action to change the woody matter into the present material. In the ease of the Arizona forest, how ever, there is little evidence of vol canic action, except in one or two por tions.—Scientific American. The Font, of Pocaliimtnfl. One of the most Interesting relics at Williamsburg, Va., is the font from which Pocahontas received baptism, which stands in the Baton parish in that old town, so full of historic asso ciations. Contracting Taatcg Sliown. The cottages at Newport afford a strange commentary upon the contrast ing tastes of the American nation. Their heterogeneity were impossible in a race of settled culture, in a race ol common blood, in a country of limited extent. But the United States is ana tion of nations. Its people are not Americans, but Englishmen and Scots men, Frenchmen and Germans, Ital ias and Spaniards of the third or fourth or tenth generation, says the Smart Set. Their taste in architecture is a taste that was born on the sunny Medi terranean shore, in cozy Normandy orchards, in classic Spain and Italy, in baronial Scotland and England. It is revealed in the chateaux, the castles, the villas, the loggias of Newport. Se ville and Welbec-k, Florence and Fa laise here stand side by side on tiie same strip of grass, separated only l.y a grille from Venice or Antwerp FIRST FICHT UNDER THF FI.AU Fought on land, Was at Fort Stanwix New York, The first conflict waged under the thirteen Stars and Stripes on land, after their direct authorization, is known to have been at Fort Stanwix (subsequent}- re-named Fort Schuylcrl, in Home, N. Y. The fort was invested by thy British on the lid of August, at which time the garrison was without the authorized standard: but they had a description of the design, and soon formed a flag from materials in the fort. Victory perched upon their rude and hastily constructed banner: and in one sortie made by the Americans they captured five of the enemy’s standards. By an order of Congress, approved by the President January 13, 171 M. the flag was changed on the first day of May, ensuing, so as to consist of fif teen stripes and the same number of stars. This continued to he the design of our flag until tlic year 1818, when the Union embraced twenty States. On the 25th of March, in that year, on the motion of the Hon. Peter 11. Weud over, of New York. Congress passed an act entitled “An Act to Establish the Flag of the United States.” It read as follows: “Section I. Be it enacted, etc., that from and after the fourth day of July next the flag of the United States he thirteen horizontal stripes alternate red and white: that the Union have twenty stars, white in a blue field. Section 11. And he it further enact ed, that on the admission of every new State to tile Union one star he added to the union of the flag: and that such addition shall take effect on the Fourth of July next succeeding such admis sion. Approved, April 4, 1818.” The flags of the United States have since continued to he of this construc tion; so that, whatever their variations to indicate the branch cf the Govern ment service to which a special (lag belongs, every one shows by Its red and white stripes the number of colon ies which originally formed the nation, •while its white stars in a blue ground will tell the number of States now em braced in our local Union.—George J. Varney, in New England Magazine. Pantomime.- Certain gestures are absolutely iden tified with certain feelings. To shake one's fist is to threaten; to hold up one's finger is to warn. To indicate thought we place the tips of the fingers on the forehead; to show concentrated atten tion we apply the whole hand. To rub the hands is everywhere a sign of joy, and to clap them a sign of enthusiasm. It would be easy to multiply exam ples. Affirmation, negation, repulsion are all indicated by motions that every one understands. It is the same, in quite as great a degree, with nationalities, in spite of the original diversity of the races that make them up. The mimetic ebaran ter results at once from race, from history and from climate. The gesture of the Englishman is fierce and harsh; he speaks briefly, brusquely; he is cold, positive, forceful. Ills salutation is cold and accentuated, but his handshake is loyal. The ges ture of Germany is heavy, good-hu mored and always ungraceful. Many of the Slav people are unwilling to look one In the face, and they have a false gesture. The Spaniard and the Portuguese, although dwelling in a southern land, gesticulate little; their language is rhythmic, slow, solemn; they are grave, their salutation is a little theatrical. The Italian is lively, mobile, intclli gent, gay; his language is harmonious, sonorous, warm and luminous like his country’s sky. The salutation of the Italian is quick and full of feeling, his gesture colored and exaggerated. Lon don Answers. A Luminous Explanation. Dr. J. L. M. Curry, special ambassa dor to Spain, tells the following anec dote, says Harper's Magazine; In the discharge of ids duties in pro moting the cause of education he lias been frequently called upon to address the pupils of schools he has been visit ing. On one occasion he was at a rural school, i.ud the usual address was ex pected at the (lose of the exercises. The children went through a number of ealisthenic exercises, which were, probably, somewhat elaborated in honor of the distinguished visitor, and then came (he doctor’s speeeh. Think ing it was a favorable occasion to im press upon his youthful auditors the importance of drill and practice, the doctor, after expressing the pleasure that the exercises had given him, told the children that they had done far better than he could have done, and then asked: “Can someone of you tel! me why it is that I cannot do these ealisthenic exercises as well as you have done them?’’ After an instant’s pause a small hand went up, and, on receiving an encour aging word from the doctor, a little boy stood up and said: “’Cause you are old and stiff in the j’nts”—which was not exactly the an i swer either expected or desired. A Contrary Conductor. “There is the greatest difference im aginable between street car conduct ors,” said a woman who uses the cars every day. “I always try to make a point of having change, but the other day I didn’t and found myself with nothing less than a $5 bill. The con ductor changed it promptly, giving me $3 in bills and apologizing for being obliged to give me the rest in silver. On the next line of ears I saw another conductor accept a $5 Dill from a woman and then search his pockets for change for pure contrariness. He gave her the whole sum in quarters, dimes and nickels and a liberal number of pennies, so that her hand bag was filled with small change, and then at the next corner he got off at a cigar store with a $2 bill to get change to u in the car. - ’—Philadelphia Record. THE BRUNSWICK DAILY NEWS. Styltsh Organ Grinders. Much amusement was afforded the residents of Ixigan square the other evening by the actions of a couple of gentlemen who were evidently exhil arated from taking too much liquid refreshment. The men were enacting the parts of Italian street musicians. Both men, who were attired in Prince Albert coats and wore shining silk hats, made a laughable sight as they pushed a large hurdygurdy clear around the square, stopping In front of a dozen houses en route. While one man ground out music the other passed his silk hat for a collection. The donations were liberal, too; even the poorest-clothed workingman, seated on a bench in the square, tossed in a copper for the “two swells what got broke and had to take to the streets for a liv ing.” An officer, who evidently knew the two men, finally persuaded them to go home, and the instrument was return ed to the waiting Italian, from whom the had hired it. Just as the two men had turned to go away they met a poor, lame old woman, whom they stopped and made wait while one of the men emptied his collection of nickels and pennies from his hat Into the surprised woman’s apron. Both men pqlitely bowed to the woman as she stood pouring out thanks and blessings, and then they went their way arm in arm.—Phila delphia Record. EMBARRASSING ERUDITION. “That young man has a brilliant fu ture before him," said the phrenolo gist. And the little Boston boy whose bumps were being examined polished his spectacles and exclaimed: ‘‘Pardon me; but you open up a very interesting field of inquiry. Where else could my future be if it. were not be fore me?”—Washington Star. SUCCESS NOT SURE. “Well,” said the cheerful wife, who thought she had a soprano voice, “If tho worst comes to the worst I could keep the wolf from the door by sing ing/' '7 don’t doubt that would do it,” re plied her pessimistic husband, “but suppose the wolf should happen to be deaf?"— Philadelphia Press. CURES RHEUMATISM AND CATARRH 11. B. B. Curon Keep-Seated Oae* Kapeclal ly—To Prove It B. It. It. Sont Tree. 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' r ° r *el. by all Price- fifty certts per bottlo* ARTESIAN WATER IN TEXAS. It Acts an Important Part In the Irri gation of the State. A little known but interesting fea ture of the natural water supply of Texas Is the occurrence of unusual artesian springs which flow from the rocks at the foot of the enscarpment which bounds the eastern portion of the Edwards plateau. These waters are formed in springs at. Austin, in the San Marcos River at San Marcos, at San Antonio and elsewhere. They issue from the ground In strong, gush ing springs and flow away in bold streams which form the sources of lakes and rivers. A careful study of their behavior shows that their flow is not constant, but fluctuates between a high and low discharge. It has also been discover ed that these changes bear a remark able resemblance, both in time and amount, to the fluctuations of rainfall on the Edwards plateau; the crest of the rainfall curve over this region be ing followed with great precision by tho crest of tho discharge curves of tho springs. This similarity has been found to hold true for dry and wet years alike. The Edwards plateau is a flat, grass-covered upland, 14,000 square miles or more in extent. The rain which falls upon it does not flow off in surface streams, but sinks into the porous soil, and eventually finds it way underground to the bold scarp line in the region, where it bursts out in abundant springs. The Ban Antonio River has its source in one of these artesian springs, and between it and the wells driven to supply water to the city of San An tonio there seems to he close connec tion, shown in their mutual changes, which indicates that their waters have a common source. It was recently noticed that when the wells were steadily drawn upon for twenty-four hours the water of the head lake of the river fell several inches, hut that on shutting oft the weiis the lake regained its level in about one day. So intimate is the relation between the flow of the wells and that of the river that it is always possible to tell how high the water will rise in the former by observing the river’s height on a gauge rod placed upon its bank. The supply which these springs add to the state’s water resources is im portant and the division of hydrogra phy of the United States geological survey, through Prof. T. U. Taylor of the University of Texas, is making a study of their occurrences. —Chica- go Chronicle. 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