Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1896 — A ROCKING ROCK. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A ROCKING ROCK.

It Weighs About Fifteen Tons and Moves Upon Slight Pressure. When the glacial period was at its height, man knows not how long ago. and a glacier thousands of feet thick was over the St. Lawrence valley, enormous streams of ice flowed off from this fountain head in the Laurentian hills, pushing out as far south as Long Island, and once covered all New England with its mantle. It bore along, enveloped in its ice folds, rocks, sands and all sorts of eroded material, and when another change of climate came, and the glacier dissolved, it dropped its burden, and some of it in strange and picturesque positions. One of the most remarkable mementos of the glacier is in the town of Farmington, N. H. It is a wonderful, poised rock. To the few residents of the town who have visited its somewhat remote situation it is known as the "Tilting Rock.” It is somewhat oval in shape, weighing perhaps fifteen tons. The most singular thing about it is that it rests upon another rock, a great angular block of granite, as large as a small house. The upper rock is so perfectly balanced upon the other that one may rock it to and fro as easily as a mother’s foot a cradle. So great does its momentum become by the simple pressure of the hand and of the body, that it seems as if it must lose its balance and go crashing into the

surrounding woods. So finely adjusted is its poise that a person may stand on its summit, and by repeated swaylngs of the body set the boulder to rocking In a manner that seems really dangerous. “You seem sad, my red-skinned brother,” said the missionary. “Redskinned brother’s heart heap bad,” said the noble son of the prairie. “White man shoot better, fight better, and now Injun hear college yell, he know Injun can’t war-whoop for sour apples. Waugh!”—Cincinnati Enquirer. “I have always given our first mother, Eve, credit for one thing,” said Mr. Caugwater. “She didn’t hyphenate her name married Adam'.”—Chicago Tribune.

THE TILTING ROCK.