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If such IsolntlMf were general or could bo general It would be tho nega tion of civilization. Portland Orego nlnn. SUBMARINE RIVERS. Cold Water Currente Flowing Along the Deep 8a Dottom. Tho bottom currents of sens nnd oceans, such ns tlioso which possibly bring amber to our shores, nro strange ly disposed. Tho seigneur of Sark some fifty years ngo wns shipwrecked In his yacht nenr tho Island of Guernsey. Ho lost, among other things, a well fas tened, strongly niado chest containing silver plato. It wns found n year later In deep water off tho const of Norway nnd restored to hltn. In tho really deep sen over a thou sand fathoms down there nro wall marked broad currents which may bo described ns rivers of very cold water (only A degrees or 10 nbovo freezing point). They flow along tho deep sen bottom nnd nro sharply marked off from tho wanner waters nbovo nnd to tho side. Their Inhabitants nro differ ent from thoso of tho warmer water. They nro duo to tho melting of tho polar Ice, tho cold water so formed sinking nt onco owing to Itn greater density below tho warmer water of tho surface currents. Theso deep currents originate In both tho arctic nnd antarctic regions. Sir Itny T.nnkestcr In Loudon Telegraph. Habit From the Dungeon. Convicts who were forced to drag nbnut it ball nnd chnln nt thu galleys could often bo detected when rulensed by their linblt of trailing one foot nftcr tho other. John Iloylo O'ltcllly, condemned to convict llfo In Australia for his rvnlnn sympathies, had nlso In nfter years it habit which told n llko sad story. Ono who knows htm said: When walking abstractedly nnd me chanically ho nlwoys went it short dis tance nnd then retraced tils steps, no mntter how wldo it stretch ho had bo foro I1I111. It wiih nlwny three paces forward, turn nnd tlirco puce buck, exactly llko tho restless turning of n lion In n cngo. 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