The Hidden Rock In The Pacific

The wreek of the Pacific Mail steamship City of San Francisco on a submergecl rock off what is known as Tartar süoals, on the Mexican coast, recalls an incident which occurred on tlie Pacific Mail steamship Oliina on the upward passage from Panama previons to the last trip of the ill-iated steamship. The story is told by one of the pL ssengers of the China - a responsible and very intelligent gentleman. He says that during the night previous to the arrivnl of the China at Acapulco (when sho must have been in about the same position as that in whioh the City of San Francisco was when she came to grief) many of the passengers were awakened by a peculiar tirad and grating of the ship's bottom, as if she had strnck against something hard. It was his firm belief that the vessol trembled from stem to stern. Next morning, on the arrival of the vessel at Acapulco, he inquired of the officers what was the cause of the peculiar sensation he had experienced in the conduct of the vessel at the time referred to. He was then informed that the vessel had not come into collisiou with anything, but that the singular phenomenon wus due to the fact that the helmsmnu had lost temporary control of the ship. The China is a wooden vossel, and the amouut of friction on a rook which would tear an irreparable rent in the plating ol an iron steamship, such as the City of San Francisco, might do her practically 110 damage. The condition of tho tide and other circumstances may have been favorable to tho China sino. Since that voyage the China has not been in tin, dry doek, consequently the huil ha nol been subject to any examination. - Sau Francisco Bulletin. Bob Incjehsoll, when he went througl the 1,000-foot level of the Opliir mine, strook a hoated curreut of air with a temperatura of 140 degreeg, and remarked piously and perspiringly that i: there was any place hotter than that, b( would be, etc., if he didn't joifl tin church.