wood, was added to the old house. Architects were not numerous,
apparently, in those days, so the Dutch type was lost in making this
large addition, though the interior is quaint, dignified and
interesting. It was from under its roof that Daniel C. Verplanck was
carried to his last resting-place as his father before him, and
generations after him lived and still live in the old Homestead.

For the above description, prepared with no little painstaking, of an
interesting house and demesne, as well as for the loan of the photograph
from which I made my pen-and-ink sketch of it, I am wholly indebted to a
member of the Verplanck family and a mutual friend.

A.J. BLOOR.

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ROCK UPHEAVAL CAUSED BY HYDRAULIC PRESSURE.--There was a remarkable
occurrence at the mills of the Combined Locks Paper Company at Combined
Locks, Wis., on Saturday. From some unknown cause there was an upheaval
of rock upon which the mills are located, throwing the mill walls out of
place, cracking a great wall of stone and cement twenty feet thick and
making a saddle-back several hundred feet long and six inches high in
the bed rock beneath the mill. An artesian well two hundred feet away on
the bluff has dried up. The damage to the mill and machinery will
probably amount to several thousand dollars. The upheaval is supposed to
have resulted from some hydraulic pressure between the seams of rock
beneath. A panic occurred among the mill operatives at the time of the
shake-up, but nobody was hurt in the stampede from the mill.--_Boston
Transcript_, _September_ 10.