The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-27
VONDERSOFMANYKINDS
OUER.AMMENGAU STONE WITH
 sORROWTUL FACE ON SURFACE.
Artesian Well Tn Hawaii Rises and Falls With Great Regularity-Meuntain fn India Moves and Turns Rich
 Valley iRto . Waste.

No plausible explanation has yet been offered regardinG the origin of the fa- nous stone of Ober-Ammergau. which has a human face of sorrow marked by the hand of nature on its surface.
 The stone was discovered by an American lady on Mount Kopfe1. over looking the village of Ober -Ammergau. famous for the Passion Play" Geo. logical experts declare that 1t is natural and that no tool has carved it. If this is true, says the inquisitive scientist. then how was the stone naturally markedf
 This is a question that is likely to puzzle mankind for so long a time as the stone exists. Dr. Garnett, who has examined 1t, can not say more than that Tit Is a great natural curiosity, more curious than anything of tho same na- ture with which l am acquainted. and the history of It's discovery is more curious still"
 In the church of St. John. Pica. there Is a stone that puzzles scientists even more than does the stone of Ober- Ann mergau. It Is curiously marked with red. blue and yellow, and tho lines rep resent an old man with beard and with bell in his hand. seated beside a small stream. This stone fragment is sup- posed to contain a picture of the Re- deemer.
 
 A water we'll bored upon a planta- tion at Kealia, Hawaii. presented new problem to the worlds scientists and they began to ask one another tho ques- | tion. Does the earth breather The artesian we'll at Kealia had tube thtr- teen feet high surmounting the bore and in this at 8 o'clock In the morning the water stood at height of eight | feet.
 Six hours later the water bubbled over the top of the tube in a steady stream. Ats o'clock next morning the water had fallen ve fleet in the tube. | This rising and falling continued like clockwork for so long as the tube was left in the bore. It certainly wasn't caused by the tide. for no tide in the world is regular. Scinentists know this and they Nant to fathom the mystery of the regular rising and falling of under ground streams.
 Why do mountains travel is a little puzzle that has stumped many great minds for many years. Several en- gineers went to Bengal some years ago | to find out why the Maimana Mountain. near Gohna, had taken 1t into its head to move. This gigantic mass of earth started on its travels in 1893 and in September of that year had completely damned the River Ganga-
 l Although the engineers made every possible effort to discover the reason of its shifting and to stop it's advances, they failed. and a deep lake was form ed which rose till the new dam, unable | to bear the vast pressure of water, l broke suddenly. The hood turned a rich valley fifty miles long into a wa | ter-sodden waste and doing damage to the extent of many thousands of | pounds.
 Another Moving Mountain.
 Travers mountain in Switzerland has also stumped men of science. At the present moment 1t is crossing the val ley in which 1t Is situated at the rate of a few inches a day. and no one can discover the reason of its stealthy crawling. Some time ago an immense
 wall of great thickness was erected around the mountain to keep 1t in place, but it Is believed that by and by the huge mass will push the wall down as easily as if 1t were built of paper.
 Three scientists. two from. America and the other from Britain. are report ed to have spent several months in Co., req trying to elucidate the wonders of that strange land.
 The wonders in question consist of a hot mineral spring which is supposed to heal anything from a cut to cancer: two springs so arranged that when one | is full the other Is empty; cavern in | the mountains in which a cold. pierc. | ing wind rages perpetually: large grove of pine trees which will sprout | again directly they are cut down; a | stone which floats in space, and, last, but no least, a rock which gives forth | great heat, however cold the weather might be.
 Marvellous Rocks in Corea. | The scientists studied the springs first of all. and. failing to understand them, turned their attention to the won- derful cavern. The moment they en- l tered the interior they were almost blown off their feet, and although they adopted all manner of dodges to find the origin of the wind they had to re- | turn to the open sadder but not wiser | men.
 They next walked into the grove Of | nine trees, known as the Ineradicable forest and there again they were
 stumped. They destroyed several of the trees by fire during the night and next morning they were regrowing | strongly out of the very ashes. | The fifth wonder of Corea, the foat' ing stone, in honor of which temple has been built, tried the scientists pa | tience to a maddenins degree. This | stone, to all appearances. rests on the ground, yet, when two of the men stood | upon 1t, one on each side. the third was able to draw a thick string underneath
 without encountering any obstacle. | Why. they were never able to discover.
 The warm rock. the last wonder. also | nuzzIed their brains. This rock Is reall van immense stone. on the top or | which small inn has been erected. | A-n fAN f..