only flowing wells should be called ar- 

 tesian. I will refer to a few of the many 

 flowing wells. The hot springs in many 

 parts of the world are natural artesian 

 wells, the water being forced up from 

 great depths. It is estimated that there 

 are more than fifty thousand wells east 

 of the Mississippi River from one to two 

 thousand feet in depth, drilled to obtain 

 petroleum oil or the inflammable gas 

 which accompanies it. These are as 

 strictly artesian wells as those that send 

 up water. 



Among the most noted artesian wells 

 is the one at Crenelle, in Paris. In bor- 

 ing this well, aftfer going 4own one thou- 

 sand seven hundred and ninety-seven 

 feet and passing through a stratum of 

 rock over a subterranean fountain, the 

 drill suddenly fell fourteen feet and the 

 water soon rose above the surface. The 

 temperature of the water coming from 

 this well is eighty-two degrees, Fahren- 

 heit. It is conducted by pipes to the hos- 

 pital in the town, for heating purposes. 

 The bore in most artesian wells is from 

 three to six inches in diameter, but. the 

 one at Passy, near Paris, is twenty-eight 



inches in diameter and one thousand 

 nine hundred and twenty-five feet deep. 

 In town and country a pure water 

 supply is of the utmost importance to the 

 health of the people and in many coun- 

 tries it can only be obtained by deep and 

 expensive boring. Various uses are 

 made of water flowing from artesian 

 wells. In many places it is used to pro- 

 pel machinery. In the desert of Sahara 

 artesian wells have become of great value 

 in making the country near them habit- 

 able, as the flow is sufficient to irrigate 

 large areas of land. Two new villages 

 have been built in the desert and two 

 hundred thousand palm trees have been 

 planted about these wells. In the West- 

 ern part of the United States, where the 

 rainfall is limited, many artesian wells 

 have been bored, the water being largely 

 used for irrigation. In California more 

 than forty thousand acres are irrigated 

 from flowing wells. The average depth 

 of these wells is about two hundred and 

 fifty feet and the average discharge 

 eighty thousand gallons per day. 



M. S. Hall. 



WHERE WE FOUND THE LADY-BIRDS, 



(A TRUE INCIDENT.) 



One spring we were cleaning away 

 the leaves and ice from about the roots 

 of a little thicket of white Scotch roses, 

 as we have always called the low-grow- 

 ing, small-blossomed white rose so popu- 

 lar in many country places. 



The sunshine had not warmed the air 

 enough to melt the snow and ice which 

 had been formed in early winter about 

 the roots and which held together a mass 

 of oak leaves driven bv the wind to this 



hiding-olace or else put there by the 

 farmer in the fall. One lump of. ice about 

 the size of a man's fist had been very hard 

 to dislodge from the rose bushes and as it 

 was brought but by the teeth of our iron 

 rake we picked it up to show to some in- 

 terested bystanders and to our surprise, 

 and theirs also, we found a number of 

 the sm.all orange-colored beetles usually 

 called lady-birds closely imbedded in this 

 icy prison. 



