Siberia. A Russian merchant iu IS2S
began to dig the well, but he gave up
the task three years later, wheu he
had dug down thirty feet and was
still in solidly frezen soil. Then the
Russian Academy of Science dug
away at the well for mouths, but
stopped when it had reached a depth
of 382 Let, when the ground was still
frozen as hard as a lock. In 1844 the
academy had the temperature of the
excavation carefully taken at various
depths, and from these data it was es
timated that the ground was frcun to
a depth of 612 feet. Although the
pole of the greatest cold is in this pro
vince of Yakutck, not even the terri
ble seventy of the S.berian winter
cou'd frezethe ground to a depth of
600 feet Geologists have decided that
the frozen valley of the Lowsr Lena
is a formation of th** glacial period.
They believe, in short, that it frcn
solidly then and has never since bad a
chance to thaw out
VOL. XX.
TELEGRAPHIC.
GENERAL NOTES.
Peachbuds in the Hudson River Val
ley have been killed by the frosts, and
for the third successive years there
will be no crop.
In Washington county, Wisconsin, a
pebble was recently found, which a
Milwaukee expert has declared to be a
diamond and worth $220. It weighs 22
carats.
Richard Lombard, an old M.xloib
war veteran, who is blind, and bad
been reduced to penury, on Saturday
received from the government a draft
for $6,t00 aa arrears of pensions, the
claim for which had been in dispute for
many years.
