Great Rainfall In Australia

January and February, 1893, wiH long be remembered in Australia as the months of the most phenomenal rainfall ever known, not in Australia alone, but in any country in the world since the dawn of history. The point of tho greatest downpour was at Brisbane, which wa3 very fortúnate for Boiencs, as it is at tfhat iplace where the government meteorological instrumente are kept. On the last day of January the rain gauge recorded ten and one-half inches of rain. The next day, F(b. 1, it showed a fall of over twenty inches, and on the second day a little over thirty-flve inches of water feil! Altogether seventy-sevp.n inahes of water feil in four days. The average yearly rainfall in this portioa of ' the Mississrppi valley is just about half what it -was at Brisbane during the four days mentioned.