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erected in different parts of his estate in 
order that when trees are cut down dur¬ 
ing the progress of systematic thinning, 
they may be manufactured into lumber 
for use in the building of cottages; and 
the soft pine is sawn into barrel staves 
to be shipped to ports where herring are 
packed. Mr. Carnegie is, by the care 
he is bestowing on his trees as well as by 
the numbers he is planting, doing a 
great work for arboriculture in Scotland. 
—The Florists’ Exchange. 
STARTLING EFFECTS OF THE EARTH¬ 
QUAKE IN INDIA 
/> T A HE official report of the Chief Com- 
missioner of Assam on the recent 
earthquake contains some interesting 
details. He describes it as an unpre¬ 
cedented calamity in India. The huge 
monoliths in the Khasi Hills, whose 
origin goes back beyond the dawn even 
of legend, and which have survived 
every shock in the past, are now snapped 
and broken. In some cases they have 
been torn out or thrust forth from the 
earth. The most interesting archaeolog¬ 
ical relic in the province, a massive stone 
bridge of great antiquity in the Kamrup 
district, is shattered. The character of 
the shocks was everywhere of an almost 
uniform type—a sharp vibration, accom¬ 
panied by a rocking or heaving of the 
earth, and a loud rumbling noise. In 
the hills gigantic landslips plunged 
mountainsides in ruin and buried vil¬ 
lages beneath them. On the plains 
the rivers were agitated — the banks 
crumbled and fell in, plunging whole 
hamlets into the stream. At places 
geysers leaped forth, spouting sand and 
water to the height of several feet. The 
ejection had such force that the covers 
of wells solidly embedded in mortar were 
hurled aside, while the wells were choked 
with many feet of sand. At Nowgong a 
tank or reservoir, fourteen feet deep, was 
left dry and filled up with fine sand to 
within a foot of its top. Huge fissures 
running east and west opened in many 
directions. In the plains attached to 
the Garo Hills district, crater-like pits 
appeared, averaging about six feet in 
diameter, and one of them reported to 
be forty feet across. From the fissures, 
sometimes sixteen feet deep, discharges 
of sand and water threw up pieces of coal, 
peat, resin, masses of half-petrified tim¬ 
ber, and a black earth hitherto unknown 
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