Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1899 — FALCON ISLAND IS SINKING. [ARTICLE]

FALCON ISLAND IS SINKING.

Now Three Fathom* Beww the Surface of the Water. Officers of the British man-of-war Pengain hare discovered that Falcon Island, which arose from beneath the sea level in 1885, ids gradually sinking and is now three fathoms under water. The Penguin has returned to Sydney, N. S. W., after taking soundings between the Island of Longe and Auckland, New Zealand. The same officers alao procured the temperature of the sea at a greater depth than it has ever been taken—at 4,7(52, fathom*.