FATHER OF CORKSCREWS.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 390, 29 October 1903, Page 3

FATHER OF CORKSCREWS.

|a<«ul>. That familiar »>;n!ranee, "there 1* nothing new under.the sun,'':aoyohg•er applies at Carnegie museum in Pittsburg. The force of excavatora now citenired in Sioux county, Nebraska, t. ~.....■ the direction of Dr. W. J. Holland, has shipped to the rr .- seiuu a specimen that is yet a inv*tery to archaeologists. This unnamed "what is it" mignt be aptly termed the father of corkacrewß. It ii nearly ten feet in length, spiral, with a symmetry that is perfect, and tapers in thicknes« from four inches at the base to about two inches at the top. The diameter of the coil aJao decreases proportion* ately fr*ra about 15 inches to per» haps ten inches. Surmounting the tip bi the coil is a eonelike formation, the exact nature of which has not be«n determined owing to the fact that it is completely encased In soft stone. This i« partly broken off, but, iw otherwise preserved intact. The specimen is broken at the base nnd the part which is missing is the one section that might throw «o»e nunc 'direct' 'light upon its real char-!\-,"-M'. lii Tf«"*p_rHw>i itcksement it g)V«*> lh< i/ppi-'.-i ra'ii. <- nf a gigantic oH. aim! a|...|- \)IV tialf oiny, half-.-Hui t . ;u'.■iiinulii i itiu i.« wortee] aw»;r itM .surface Li smuu'ih and without/ mnrkingK. Specimens of this sort have been found recently in considerable numbers in that locality, and what is peculiar and out of the ordinary is that they are always standing 'vertically, as 'though suddenly submerged in ages past and petrified a.s they stood. To dale the identity of the fossil has remained obstinately a matter of pure conjecture, says a St. Louis Post-Dispatch special, and although half a dozen specimens are now engaging the attention of experts in this line of research it ho* them gueseingj

. ' , in—ii ill "AmerlewK amvrvmm*T-" In the new J issue of the ' London Fortnightly Review there appears an anonymous article on "American Supremacy," ; says the New York Tribune, that is likely to attract much attention. The author considers the notion of E/urope being overwhelmed by the boundless production of the United "States a most fantastic figment of the imagination. Upon the new president's recognition of the limits of American supremacy, hj« argued, the commercial and politic*! fortunes of the whole world may in no little degree.depend. He goea o» to show' that England 'will make tf bad mistake if she opposes th« wishes of America In regard to the isthmian canal. The United State* should hold ; the iron keye of the gate of the two oceans, and should have the power to eloae H agaiost •nemiea.