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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



from the time when prospective settlers 

 lined up ready to rush in the moment the 

 territory was declared open for settlement, 

 up to the present time. A comparison of 

 the manufacture of textile fabrics in the 

 north and the south is given by Jerome 

 Dowd, entitled "Textile War between the 

 North and the South." Thomas Davidson 

 treats of the "Ideal Training of the 

 American Girl," and does it in a manner 

 free from prejudice and narrow conserva- 

 tism, and full of good common sense ideas. 



MCCLURE'S MAGAZINE 

 For June is emphatically a war number 

 from the pretty red, white and blue cover 

 on which Columbia raises her ?word. to 

 the last poem a battle hymn. The front- 

 ispiece is an excellent likeness of General 

 Miles in his office at the war department, 

 and one of the many good articles 

 is by him. entitled "Military Europe," 

 being a narrative of personal observations 

 and experiences. The leading article, 

 ''Cuba Under Spanish Rule," is by Major- 

 General Fitzhugh Lee. It is profusely 

 illustrated by Cuban scenes and by por- 

 traits of the men who have been promi- 

 nent in Cuban affair?, including, among 

 many other portraits, those of Maximo 

 Gomez. Gen. Maso, Gen. Weyler and 

 Major-Gen. Lee. Octave Thanet contrib- 

 utes a short story, "An Old Grand Army 

 Man.' Under the title of "Stories of the 

 Fighting Leaders" are given portraits and 

 sketches cf the naval commanders who are 

 at present before the public eye. first and 

 foremost being that of the hero of the 

 hour Dewey. I cannot even mention all 

 the good things that are included in this 

 one number, and which one may obtain 

 for the small sum often cents. 



LADIES' HOME JOURNAL. 

 To those who have laughed and cried 

 over "Hip Van Winkle" the article in the 

 May number will be delightful. In it 

 Josephine Robb gives us a glimpse of 

 Joseph Jefferson, or "Hip Van Winkle" as 

 he is at home, together with illustrations 



of his beautiful home, his family and his 

 genial self. "The Life of a Trained 

 Nurse" with its page of illustrations show- 

 ing the nurse engaged in her various du- 

 ties, is interesting and instructive. 



JOURNAL OF THE ASSOCIATION OF ENGI- 

 NEERING SOCIETIES. 



In the Journal of the Association of 

 Engineering Societies, Vol. XX, March 

 No. 3. 1898, Mr. W. C. Parmley, member 

 of the Civil Engineers' Club of Cleveland, 

 contributed a paper on Rainfall and Runoff 

 in Relation to Sewerage Problems, sug- 

 gesting a modification of the co-efficients 

 employed in the Burkli-Ziegler and Mc- 

 Malh formulas, for the discharge in terms 

 of the intensity of rainfall, percentage of 

 run-off, area of territory and slope of 

 ground. 



In a paper on the Erection of Metallic 

 Bridges, Mr. Frank P. McKibben, mem- 

 ber of the Boston Society of Civil Engi- 

 neers, comments upon the rapidity with 

 which modern pin-connected bridges are 

 erected and discusses the methods of 

 erecting structures of various spans, from 

 the short span I-beam bridge up to such 

 spans as that of the 523-foot channel span 

 of the Ohio connecting railway bridge near 

 Pittsburg. 



The paper is illustrated with a large 

 number of photographic and other views, 

 including the Pittsburg span already men- 

 tioned, the Eads Bridge, at St. Louis, the 

 Garabit Viaduct in France, the Niagara 

 Cantilever, and the new two-hinge arched 

 bridge over the Niagara gorge. 



A paper on Brick Paving, by Mr. Irvinu 

 E. Howe, of the Engineers' Club of Minn- 

 eapolis, describes briefly his experience in 

 connection with work in that city, where 

 the prices bid were from $1.99 to $2.04 

 per square yard, and where, by advertis- 

 ing for the material and doing its own 

 work, the city reduced the cost to $1.67 \ 

 per quare yard. To obviate the trouble 

 often caused by contraction and expansion 

 in such pavements, half-inch expansion 

 joints extending across the roadway 

 from curb to curb, and filled with Califor- 

 nia asphalt and mortar, were placed about 

 150 feet apart, with excellent results. 



Prof. H. E. Smith, of the Engineers' 

 Club of Minneapolis, discusses the Effects 

 of Heating and Working on Iron and Steel. 



