The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1905-08-03
PLAYS SOME CURIOUS TRICKS.
Dame Nature Blows FOghorn for
| Mexico and Makes Weird Music.

Dame Nature Blows FOghorn for
Mexico and Makes Weird Music.
The Mexican government, which
uses the rocky island known as the
FaralIones for lighthouse purposes,
discovered some time ago that
through a hole in one of the rocks,
slanting and communicating with the
ocean, there came at intervals ter
rifle stream OF air.
On examination it was found that
the air was forced by the spasmodic
heaving of the waves against the low
er orifice.
The government officials inclosed the
upper end of the hole with the nozzle
of foghorn, and every minute or so
there was blown an ear splitting blast
which could be heard far out at sea
and above the din of the breaking
rollers.
The foghorn was allowed to roar
only in foggy weather. Owing to the
fact that it would only sound at high
tide, the government thought it adj
yisable to erect a steam siren on the
island in case the weather might be
thick at low tide. when the natural
foghorn was silent.
Weird music can often be heard
along the shores of the Red Sea, and
resembles in sound the notes of an
enormous cathedral organ.
Scientists declare that the music is
purely natural and comes from the
sand hills, Hard, dry particles of
sand, which break loose from the sum-
| nit of the hills, roll down the slopes
| and cause a musical vibration.
Natures little organ has been a
| matter of discussion for many learned
bodies during recent years, and it was
! only comparatively recently that the
one possible explanation Of the mystic
rious music was given.
Similar sounds have been heard at
Kimberley and other parts of the
Transvaal, and they also owe their or
! igin to the hills and loose sand.
Mist-poeffers, or -hiccoughs, very
often startle strangers in India.
They are exactly like the booming
of monster cannon. and are continual
ly sounding along the Lower Ganges.
1t Is believed that they are electric in
their origin, for they are only heard
when heat haze hides the horizon.
Pierre Michel,one of the first men to
visit Mr.. Fairweather, came back with
the startling story that the country
inland was inhabited, and that he had
seen great city with big houses,
wide streets, parks and churches.
| W,aaF hA ,Inn
err Natures picture gallery-a wonder
full mirage which stretches for miles
across a huge rift in the mountains
The phantom city, which is almost a
replica of our English Bristol, has
been since seen by the Duke of Abruz-
| I'll who made a pen and ink drawing
of it. 1t is only visible once a year,
but it is the biggest and finest living
picture painted by nature ever seen.
A British ironclad discovered new
island in the Mediterranean some
years ago, and the captain planted a
Union Jack on one of the volcanic
| peaks. S"&
Nature kicked against his appropri-
alton of her property, and rather than
let John Bull have the island she sank
| 1t under the sea.
She started work with the volcanoes,
and after theyfh8 burned for a night
the whole island, with It's seethlng
mass of lava, disappeared with deaf
cning hiss under the waves.
When man started scheme TO turn
river in the Canadian district of Du-
bee out of its course he little thought
that nature would make him pay
dearly for his audacity. She did
though, and her revenge cost Canads
more than forty lives and forty thou
sand pounds.
The river was split up by laborers
into endless little water courses, anC
these were run through dips" In tn,
land in order TO irrigate the plain anf
make it fertile.
Just after the work had been com
pleted snow storm visited Dubec
and when the snow thawed the pIaif
became like huge sponge. >
The land was not suited to hoI,
water, and within week it became 8,
DOGGY that scores Of farm houses set
tied into the ground and disappeare
altogether.
Finally, nature turned Dubec int
one gigantic bog, and more than fort
men and women and one thousan
head of live stock persisted before tn
district was bandoned.-Pearson'
Weekly.