A Subterranean Ocean

The best scientists of the land favor the opinión that Nebraska, Kansas and part of Indian Territory are situated over an immense underground lake or sea. It is a well known fact that in several places in Kansas whole sections of land have suddenly disappeared, leaving only fathomless lakelets to mark the pot whtre they were once 6ituated. roof that there is something peculiar with the foundation of the section of he country mentioned may be found in the celebrated "tide wells" of Polk, 3utler and Colfax counties in NebrasLa. Polk county is best provided with these curious wells, having between a dozen and 20 which roar and ebb and flow with an unseen tide. The roaring of these remarkable curiosities - they cannot be called natural wonders, becanse they are the work of man, at least so far as excavation is concerned - is caused by the inhalation and exhalation of immense quantities of air. There are honrs, regular and uniform, in which the air will rush out with a loud, hissiiig sound, and again an equal spaoe of time in which it seems that all the aii of the Platte valley will be sucked into the cavernous depths of these wonderful wells. The period of this ebb and 3ow does not saein to depend üpon either tlio seasous or the state ot tüe weather, but ia thonght to have some mysterious ccnnection witli the high and low tide pr riods of the Atlantic and Pacific ocealis. A meteorolocist of national reputation, who sought to fathor.i the raystery of the "Platte river ti:e wells, " and who issued a little pamphlet with the title "Roaring Wells oí Nebraska, " gave it as his opinión thut the roaring phenomenon was in some way oonnected with the prevailiug direction of the wind, being strougest in time of west or southwest breezes. The farmers in the three counties mentioned as being best provided with these tide regulated, air expelling wells believe that the water 6upply is connected with a body large enough to have a regular ebb and flow of tide. All the wells in the counties oí Polk and Butler which are tide regulated are of about the same depth, those oí Colfax being deeper, but all extending to a porous stratum having the same