164 The National Geographic Magazine 



An Atjstfo-Hungfarian floating exposi- 

 tion leaves Trieste in Maj^ for a fifteen 

 months' voyage around the world. It 

 is deemed impracticable for more than 

 one ship to take part in the enterprise, 

 as the trip is an experiment. New York, 

 San Francisco, Yokohama, Shanghai, 

 Singapore, Batavia, Calcutta, Madras, 

 Aden, and Suez will be visited. Firms 

 that send exhibits are charged $1,000 

 for each person and $200, for every cubic 

 meter of space or per ton weight. 



U. S. Weather Bureau. — After July of 

 this year the number of forecast districts 

 of the U. S. Weather Bureau will be 

 increased b}^ the addition of Boston, Gal- 

 veston, and Denver as centers of new 

 districts. The United States is now di- 

 vided into four districts, each with a 

 center, at which the forecast for that 

 particular district is made. These cen- 

 ters are San Francisco, Portland, Oregon, 

 Chicago, and Washington. By the di- 

 vision into smaller districts greater effi- 

 ciency will be attained. 



An Earthquake Occurred in Spain on 



February .10, which did considerable 

 damage in Grazalema, a town of 10,000 

 inhabitants situated in a hilly district of 

 the province of Cadiz, about 70 kilome- 

 ters, nearly due north, from Gibraltar. 

 Several large buildings, factories, and 

 mills, as well as the church of St. Joseph, 

 were severely injured. Sefior Augusto 

 Arcimis, writing to Natiire from the 

 Central Meteorological Institute of Mad- 

 rid, says that the body of water that 

 provided motive power for the ma- 

 chinery in one of the factories has dis 

 appeared. 



British Yukon Telegraph. — It has been 

 stated with apparent certainty that the 

 two British parties constructing the tele- 

 graph line from Quesnelle to Atlin, who 

 are working toward each other, the first 

 from Quesnelle northward and the sec- 

 ond from Atlin southward, at the half- 

 way point, instead of meetuig, found 



themselves on opposite sides of an im- 

 passable mountain range, sixty miles 

 across. AtHn connects with the United " 

 States lines uniting Cape Nome, Daw- 

 son, and the military posts of Alaska, 

 while from Quesnelle wires run to the 

 great continental systems. 



In Jamaica an African Language is 



still spoken among the Maroons, the 

 descendants of wild negroes who escaped 

 from slaver}^ during the early days of 

 the slave trade. According to Maj. 

 J. W. Powell, of the Bureau of Amer- 

 ican Ethnology, this language belongs 

 to the Kongo region. The Maroons of 

 Jamaica seem to be in a barbarous or 

 semi-civilized condition, resembling in 

 this respect our North American In-' 

 dians, and, like the Amerinds, they are 

 confined to reservations, where they 

 still preserve many of the customs and 

 traditions of their savage ancestors. 



The Recent Census of Vienna shows 

 that in Austria, as in Germany, there 

 is taking place a very rapid increase in 

 city populations, due in large part to 

 immigration from the rural districts. 

 Vienna has now 1,635,647 inhabitants, 

 and has increased in population during 

 the past ten years 21.9 per cent. Vienna 

 now ranks fourth among the European 

 capitals, London, Paris, and Berlin ex- 

 ceeding her. London and Berlin are 

 increasing at a faster rate. Of Amer- 

 ican cities, New York and Chicago out- 

 rank Vienna in numbers, and each is 

 increasing more rapidly — New York 

 37.8 per cent, and Chicago 54.4 per 

 cent, in ten years. 



The U. S. Board on Geogfraphic Names 

 held no meeting during March. By act 

 of Congress a second edition is being 

 printed of the volume containing all the 

 decisions of the Board up to January i , 

 1900. Copies of the report may be ob- 

 tained by applying to Marcus Baker, 

 secretary of the Board, U. S. Geological 

 Survey, Washington, D. C. : 



