A Dried Up Lake

A lake near iYlorrUton, Ark., dried ur a couple of years ago, leaving a ricb deposit of soil ten feet deep. A portion of it was planted with corn this year and it will yield 200 bushels to the acre. The corn, so the story goes, was sowri broadcast, like wheat, and same up so strong and tnick that & coon which recently tried to make n way through the stalks was unable to extricate itself, and was captured.