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Physician and Surgeon OODF.N, KANSAS. tSfAll call will reoeive prompt attention. ster of 15 or 16 feet in height. The curved iocket-bnne shows a diameter of 10 or 11 inches. Many of theae remains have been ietermined.

The locality is known as the "Big Bone Mound These animals, when alive, souurht this place to drink of the saline waters, and venturing too far, perished, leaving their skeletons, teeth and tuBke as proofs of their existence. Another remarkable formation is in Harlan county, Nebraska, just north of the Kansas line. And still further southwest, on the divide between Sappa and Praiin Dog creek, in Phillips county, Kansas, are the craters of the more ancient geysers, one of which is called "Bread Bowl Mound," from a close resemblance of that antiquated article. Prot. Wilber thus describes it: "It has nearly the same height as those already described.

Its width at the base is not far from 1,500 feet, sloping rapidly to the top with ah area of perhaps 400 feet. The evidence of the crater and overflow are mest convincing to the chemist and geologist, and will not fail to convince the ordinary observer. Most of these closed craters give a hollow sound, and all of them present a series of deposits from alkaline solutions, permitting of no other theory." But the most interesting geological formations, affording convincing proof of a series of extinct geysers, is shown in a series of natural wells which Prof. Wilber says are found about ten miles and a half northwest of Norton Centre, Kansas, twelve miles south of the Nebraska line. These he thus describes: "These wells or tubes are two or three feet in diameter and of great depth.

They are lined with a hard crust of lime and magnesia an inch made firm and strong by continuous deposits of each overflow. The "made rock" extends over several acres, in which several of these ancient welh have been found. They are now filled with water quite free from all saline matter, the water from two of them being used for domestic purposes. Here, in plain view, are thousands of tons of alkaline rock, and the tubes through wh'ich the now hardened material was long ago conducted in a hot fluid state, and, on cooling, precipitated and became solid, as we see." It will be seen that the natural wonders described by Prof. Wilber are nearly all in Kansas.

His letter to the Republican should have the caption "Kansas' Wonderland," instead of that it bears. The curious objects described by Prof. Wilber are all within a day's journey of Atchison, and, at small expense, all have an opportunity to examine for themselves the extinct geysers of Northwestern Kansas. The Central Branch runs by the 'Great Spirit Spring" at Cawker, and the extinct geysers in Phillips and Norton counties are only a few miles beyond its present KANSAS WONDERLAND. Remarkable Geyrs, Immense Crop, Deautlful Cultivated Yalley and Blob Prairies.

From the Aichlson Champion. Prof. 0. D. Wilber, writes the Omaha Republican an interesting letter concerning geological discoveries in Southern Nebraska, and that paper heads it.

"Nebraska's Wonderland." ifut as the wonders described are niarly all in Kan-sas, this heading appears somewhat inappropriate. Eight distinct geysers are dis-scribed, and of these five are unquestionably in Kansas, and still another is probably in thU State. The writer of the lie-publican's letter says the ebullition of these hot springs ceased ages ago, but the unmistakable proofs of their existence consist in the vast mounds of deposits, in the centre of which are still visible the deep tubes or wells through which the hot and "streaming waters were forced upward to their overflow. He gives a de-8criptionof some of the mounds found in Johnson county, Nebraska, south of Fair-bury, which consist of pure silica, tinged yellow with chromate of iron; and of a locality in the Republican Valley, ten miles southwest of Red Cloud, near the Kansas lino, where there are hundreds of fragments of trained rock, weighing from five to twenty tons each, and so disposed in the hill-side and ravines as to lead to the impression that here is a large granite quarry. Southwest of 11EPUBLICAK CITY fourteen miles which would be in Kansas, though Prof.

Wilber does not say so is found the largest of these singular deposits, 'Which he describes as follows: "They are naturally called 'Granite from their close resemblance to the lighter varieties of gey granite, and it is not easy to change thp popular verdict that this is a veritable granite formation. It is a bold bluff of solid rock rising almost abruptly to the east, with less precipitation toward the north, on which side it is exposed in a circle nearly a mile and a half in extent. Fragments, large and small, are distributed around the base, mainly due to the breaking and crushing power of the glacial agency. The creek makes a circuit of seven miles, and renders the rocky area almost an island, showing that it existed as an isolated mountain of rock before the valley of the creek was established; and when the water-course of the glacial era was established the dome of "granite," as it is called, compelled the stream and valley to make here a grand detour. The rock contains silica, soda, potassa and iron, with but little lime or magnesia.

It is very hard and brittle, easily breaking into straigllfc lines of any required size. It is good for almost any use that may be required of it none of the disi negating forces have scarcely any effect upon It will serve for foundations of all structmes, or super-structures for the railway, the city, or the common hoase. The farmers of Kansas haul the looe fragments many miles, indicating the uses as above described. The material is homogeneous throughout, leading to the theory that it is the result of one, instead of a series of hot springs, whose periodic overflow has, during long ages, deposited these alkali rocks." TUB GRANITE BLUFF and seven mile circuit of Prairie Dog creek, thus described, are both in the northwest corner'of Phillips county, Kansas. Trof.

Wilber thus describes, with some minuteness, the "Great Spirit Spring" near Cawker City, on the line of the central branch railroad, which, in his opinion, fully establishes the fact that the mounds found elsewhere are the results of geysers not hot springs. He says: "We can examine one of these springs in actual operation near Cawker city, in Mitchell county, Kansas, thirty miles south of the Nebraska line. This noted spring is called ''Manitou" or "Great Spirit." spring-so named by the Indians, who from time immemorial have here held their meetings, with song and dance and such other incantations as relate to their "big medicine" business. It is a huge stone basin near five hundred feet across the top. In the center is a circular pond of water, which pours over the rim of the basin and escapes to THE SOLOMON ItlVEIt near by.

The water is alkaline, salt being predominent. Attempts to find the depth of this circular boiling spring have not been successful. It probably tends downward several thousand feet: and communicates by cleft or fissure with the thermal waters, warmed by the interior heat of the earth. The great mass of rock enclosing these briny waters is about seventy feet above the Solomon river. It appears to be the summit of a chimney built up from un known depths by deposits from the overflow of this alkaline spring.

The rock is a concrete of lime, magnesia, silica and potassa, which are all soluble in hot water, and which will precipitate on cooling. For ages these waters, saturated with the above materials, have risen by subterranean forces and deposited layer alter layer of this composite rock, thus silently building these huge walls to their present height, when the force gradually ceased, arid the work is now stopped. "Twelve miles south of Republican City," say3 Prof. Wilbur, "is another of these elevated craters." "Twelve miles south of Republican City" is over the Kansas line half a dozen miles, in Philips county, though the Nebraska writer fails to state this fact. This crater he thus describes: It i3 a large conical hill, several hundred ieet in circumference.

Its altitude above the Republican river is nearly 200 feel, having the appearance of an extinct volcano. Within that rim, and covered with the debris of centuries are found the REMAINS OF HUGE MAMMOTHS, the mastodon and other extinct races of animals. Large quantities of these bones have been exhumed from the walled in-elosure. Some of these can now be seen in the interesting collection of Dr. Dean, of Republican City.

One, a femur-bone, was six feet in length and ten inches in diameter at the joint, indicating a mon Superior Sample Rooms. Xjjcoolloxxt Tatolo. COMFORTABLE ROOMS. Having lately rented the Adams House, and made a number of changes in the interior arrangements, I respectfully invite the patronage of the traveling publio, and assure them that no pains shall be spared to make them comfortable. A number of regular boardors can also be accommodated, either with or without rooms.

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Pass. Ag T. F. OAKJSS, General Superintendent Kansas City, Mo. Creameries With Milk Set at Home.

From the National Live Stock Journal. D. W. Lewis, of Mew York, in a report of his travels in Iowa, says: Creameries are being established of a new style, and run on the plan of collecting the cream and are very favorably received. We saw one working where the cream of about 400 cows was collected, at Emmetts-burg; another is working, on a small scale, at Algona; another at Spencer, where there is a regular creamery.

This will also collect the cream. There is talk of starting, next spring, perhaps a dozen of these butter factories in this district. The facilities are simply immense free range for stock all summer on land upon which Eastern speculators pay the taxes; corn without end twelve to fifteen cents per bushel, on which to feed the cows in winter; and hay in stack at $1 per ton. As we have heretofore shown, this plan of gathering the cream, instead of the milk, seems likely to be the plan of the future. The difficulty of getting milk from any distance is insurmountable; whilst on this plan the milk is set at home, and the cream taken before any deterioration can take place, and this can be transported many miles without taking injury.

It will be very easy to refrigerate the cream, and to handle it in all respects on the improved plan. This plan, when properly worked out in all its details, seemed likely to revolutionize butter-making, by diverting all the milk or cream from private dairies, and concentrating it in large establishments, which can always make a uniform article. And when we attain a proper butter package, which shall effectually exclude the air, and thus enable us to transport butter to long distances, retaining all its fine flavor, we believe there will be no lack of a market. We can make as fine butter as asy country in the world; all we is a package that shall enable us to carry this to our customers in as fine condition as when it leaves our creameries. A Woman Who Has tain Abed Forty Tears.

From the Lowell Mail. A few weeks ago we published a paragraph concerning a woman some faraway land who had been twenty years in bed, for no particular physical reason, but because she chose not to get up and sit up. We have been told of a case m'ore remarkable than that in a town in New Hampshire, within half a day's ride of Lowell. More than forty years iago a handsome, intelligent daughter of a thrifty farmer of that town became attached to a young man in her neighborhood, toward whom her parents were not favorably disposed. They would not consent to her marriage, and she, although competent to reason with herself and them on the subject, gave up a school she was teaching, went to her bed and never again arose from it to work or go into society.

At the time she was not more than 17 or 18 years old, healthy, sprightly, intelligent and good looking. The world to her, it would seem, had as many charms as for anyone else, but without the man of her choice though that choice may have been regarded as a poor one by her friends she valued it as nothing; life itself mere existence seems to be all there was worth having. Her bed was her world; and for more than forty years she clung to it, never once leaving it to help herself to anything out of her room. The inmates of "the family were her servants from her first eccentric act..