Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-09-05

round, and, in o voice whose deep,
earnest tones could be heard all over
the assembly, he said:
"There lives but one man who can
Prove me innocent-and there he
lands"
With white face and outstretched arm
he pointed me. gazed at him
with sudden flash of recognition. It
was the man I had seen under the lamp.
And, by strange coincidence, at this
moment the court clock struck twelve.
The plea that had been got up by the
defense was an alibi. But there was a
space of some two hours that could not
be accounted for, and the theory of the
prosecution was that the crime had been
committed during that time. My evil
dence supplied the missing link, for the
place in which [ had seen the man was
so far distant from the scene of the
murder that it was impossible for him
to have been anywhere near at the time
of its coincidence.
And the dream? Only coincidence,
you will say, perhaps, or a fit of indi-
gestion, or my timber contract. Never
thelcss, as I have told it to you, so it
happened. Explain it away who can.
ANCIENT ICE-FIELDS OF NORTH
AMERICA.
We have little idea how vast these ice
fields once were. They covered some
parts of New England to depth of two
or three thousand feet, completely bury
ing Mount Tom and, perhaps, Monad-
mock.
The New Jersey hills which show the
Units of the ice are called terminal
moraine. Terminal moraines mark the
periods when the ice rested. In Wis
consin we have what are called kettle
moraines. They resemble, in compost
ton, the hills on which Boston is built.
There is much hard clay and scratched
stones and powders. In Wiscon-
sin they are called kettles because
of their shape. Here we find deep de-
pressions. Often they form the basins
of lakes. Take, for instance, the famed
lakes at Madison in that State. They
are in reality but great kettle holes,
since filed with water.
The ice, which made them, pushed
down through Green bay, while the ice
fields of New England were the result
of movement of ice up the st. Law
renee river. AS these mighty masses
melted and sank, they did so very I'M
evenly. In some places slight depres-
sions were made, which went on increas-
ing in size, sinking ever deeper and
deeper. Then the melted ice-water
came rushing and pouring into these
until it filed them, when, overlooking,
it cut its way oceanward.
Often great walls of solid ice reared
their grotesque and mighty forms all
about them, as the traveller in polar
regions sees them to-day. The lake re-
gion of Minnesota is series of these
kettle-holes. The mass of ice over this
region and northward was from two
thousand to eight thousand feet in
depth.
There came time when this enor-
nous load of ice was to be melted. But
the mouths of the ST. Lawrence and of
the Red river, as well as of many 9TH
ers, were all stopped up, and all of
these melting floods poured down
through the Mississippi valley.
What tremendous rivers these mill
ions and millions of acres of ice, mount
ain high, must have made! These
mighty volumes of water in Ohio flowed
down through the Wabash into the Ohio
river, and so on into the Mississippi. In
Wisconsin they worked their resistless
way down the Illinois river to the same
ouEet.-YOaltES Communion.