Mr. Kmm'll, of tlio I'nited State* Cnolotfionl Survey, who has spent. the -sctutou in the* California mountains near Mono Luke, says that the lava then* is the result of recent. videanic outbursts. Ilis stiivl lt;•- on the old benches lend him to thn conviction thst there have brcu two ill'Hires over the world, and thut the hocoihI. dating back to tlie advent, of man on the earth was the most severe and most protracted. lln adds that the signs of glacier* are as fresh ns though left yes ton lay. Ho has found living glaciers in tin* Sierras back to Mono I.uke, not far from thn Yoscmlto Valley. They are about a mllo loug and many foi l deep.—Chimyo Timen.