Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-17
WONDERS OF ALL KINDS
oBER-AMMERGAU STONE WITH
soRRoWFUL FACE ON SURFACE.
Artesian Well in Hawaii Rises and
Falls With Great Regularity
Mountain in India Moves.
From Pearson's Weekly.

NO ptduSlDle SApldud LdS yct USch VI
fered regarding the origin Of the famous
stone of Ober-Ammergau. which has hui
man face Of sorrow marked by the hand
OF Nature on it's surface.
The stone was discovered by an American
lady on Mount Kopfel. overlooking the VII
lage OF Ober-Ammergau, famous for the
Passion Play" Geological experts de-
clare that 1t Is natural and that no tool has
carved it. If this is true, says the inquisi-
tive scientist then how was the stone nat
uraly marked?
This is a question that is likely to puzzle
mankind for SO long a time as the stone ex-
lists. DR.. Garnett, who has examined II,
cannot say more than that lit is great
natural curiosity, more curious than any
thing of the same nature with which am
acquainted, and the history OF its discoV-
cry is more curious STILL.
In the Church of st. John, Plea, there Is
a stone that puzzles scientists even more
than does the stone Of Ober-Ammergau 1t
is curiously marked with red, blue and yell
low, and the lines represent an old man
with beard and with bell In his hand,
seated beside small stream. This stone
fragment Is supposed to contain picture
of the Redeemer
Mystery Of Hawaiian Well.
water we'll bored upon a plantation at
Kealia, Hawaii presented a new problem
to the worlds scientists and they began to
ask one another the question Does the
earth breathe?" The artesan well at Kea-
LA had tube thirteen feet high surmount-
ing the bore. and In this at o'clock In the
morning the water stood at a height OF
eight feet.
Six hours later the water dubbed over
the top of the tube in steady stream Al
o'clock next morning the water had fallen
five feet in the tube. This rising and fall
ing continued IKE clockwork for long as
the tube was left in the bore 1t certainly
wasn't caused by the tide. for no tide IN
the world is regular. Scientists know this,
and they want to fathom the mystery or
the regular rising and falling of under
ground streams.
Why do mountains travel? is little puz-
gle that has stumped many great minds for
many years. Several engineers went to
Bengal some years ago to find out why the
Maimana mountain. near Gonna, had taken
1t into its head to move This gigantic mass
OF earth started on it's travels in 1893. and
IN September of that year had completely
damned the River Ganga.
Although the engineers made every pos
sibIe effort to discover the reason of Its
shifting and to stop it's advances, they
failed and deep lake was formed which
rose till the new dam, unable to bear the
vast pressure of water, broke suddenly.
The flood turned a rich valley fifty miles
long into water-sodden waste and doing
damage to the extent of many thousands
of pounds.
AnOtueT moving mouAtalu.
Travers mountain in Switzerland has also
stumped men Of science. At the present
moment 1t Is crossing the valley in which
it Is situated at the rate of 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 1t Is believed that by and by the
huge mass will push the wall down cas-
fly as If 1t were built Of paper.
Three scientists, two from America and
the other from Britain, reported to
have spent several months in Korea 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 a cancer: two
springs SO arranged that when one IS full
the other is empty; cavern In the noun
tains in which a cold, piercing wind RACES
which will sprout again directly they are
cut down; q stone which floats in space,
and, last. but not least, 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 falling to understand them, turned
their attention to the wonderful cavern.
The moment they entered the interior they
were almost blown off their feet, and al
though they adopted all manner Of lodges
to find the origin of the wind they had to
return to the open sadder but not wiser
men.
They next walked into the grove Of pine
trees, known the Ineradcabe forest,
and there again they were stumped. They
destroyed several of the trees by fire dur
ing the night, and the next morning they
were regrowing strongly out of the very
ashes.
The fifth wonder OF Korea, the floating
stone, in honor of which a temple has been
built tried the scientists patience to a
maddening degree. This stone, to all ap-
pearances, rests on the ground, yet when
two of the men stood upon 1t, one eac..
size, 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 puZ-
zled their brains. This rock Is really an
immense stone, on the top of which a small
inn has been erected. The building requires
no fires for heating purposes either in win
ter or summer, for the rock always keeps