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A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER OF ALL THE ARTS AND SCIENCES. 



PUBLISHED BY N. D. C. HODGES, 874 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. 



Tenth Year. 

 Vol. XIX. No. 473. 



FEBRUARY 19, 1892. 



Single Copies, Ten Cents. 

 3.50 Per Year, in Advance. 



Contents. 



Notice of New Gigantic Fossils. Ir- 

 win H. Barbour 99 



Confirmation of the Discovert of the 

 Influenza Bacillus. A. Mac- 

 Donald 100 



Notes and News 100 



AssENicAL Poisoning from Domestic 



Fabrics. George S. Bale 104 



Action of Microphytes on Solid Com- 

 pounds OF Arsenic. Dr. B. Gosio. 104 



A Problem in Physics. H. A. Hazen. 106 



Professor Geikie on the Glacial 



Period 107 



Letters to the Editor. 



The Loup Rivers in Nebraska. W. 



M. Davis 107 



Origin of the Frigid Period in the 

 Northern Hemisphere. C. A. M. 



Taber 108 



Electricity in Agriculture George 

 Dlmmock 109 



Among the Publishers 109 



Calendar of Societies 110 



Entered at the Posr-Offlce of New York, N.Y., as 

 SecoDd-Class Mail Matter. 



PeabodyHoTi^hteling &Co. 



BANKERS, 



59 Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois 

 LOANS AND INVESTMENTS ON REAL ESTATE SECURITY EXCLUSIVELY 



PRINCIPAL AND INTEREST PAYABLE IN GOLD 

 CHICAGO CITY 3IORTGAGES FOR SALE. 



For the convenience of investors we carry from $200,000 to §500,000 of choice mortgages 

 at all times. These loans are made by us after careful investigation of the titles the value 

 of the securities offered and responsibility of borrowers. In transacting a business of over 

 $70,000,000, no title approved by us has ever been successfully attacked. 

 IN ANY AMO UNT. 



These loans vary in amount from S500 to $50,000, and bear from 5 per cent, to 7 per cent, 

 interest, payable semi-annually at our office, or at. such place as investor may elect. The 

 standard rate on ordinary amounts, say $3,000 to $10,000, being 6 per cent. ; smaller loans 

 6J per cent, and 7 per cent. ; large loans, on exceptionally strong security,' 5 per cent, and 

 5^ per cent. 



AT PAR AND ACCRUED INTEREST. 



These securities are ready for delivery, and are on sale at par and accrued interest. No 

 commission is charged the buyer, the income named being net. 



INVESTORS' INTERESTS CARED FOR WITHOUT CHARGE. 



We collect all interest and remit to any part of the country free of charge. We see 

 that all insui-ance policies pledged as collateral security are renewed at expiration, and 

 that the investor is protected in case of failure on the part of the borrower to pay taxes. 

 In other words, we act as financial agents for the investor without charge. Parties buying 

 mortgages securing building loans, where the buildings are not fully completed, are 

 guaranteed completion free of mechanic's liens. 



LITTLE FALLS, Wash. 



THE WASHINGTON FIRE CLAY COMPANY, 



A corporation duly organized with a cap- 

 ital stock of 8500,000.00, and doing busi- 

 ness under the Laws of the State of Wash- 

 ington, have secured several hundred 

 acres of land containing extensive de- 

 posits of Fire Clay, the only first-class 

 deposit yet discovered in this State. It 

 has erected an extensive plant for the man- 

 ufacture of Fire Brick, Fire Proofing, 

 Salt-Glazed Sewer Pipe, Culvert Pipe, 

 Flue Linings, etc. This clay has been 

 thoroughly tested at a great expense by 

 the best clay workers in America, and 

 is pronounced of superior quality, suit- 

 able for the manufacture of all clay prod- 

 ucts where s cond rsfraCiOrV olSV is re- 

 quired . This plant is equipped with thfi 

 latest improved machinery and appliances. 

 It will be in full operation by March 1st 

 next, and will give employment to at least 

 one hundred men. 



The Company also contemplates the erec- 

 tion in the near future of a plant for the 

 manufacture of Vitrified Brick for street 

 paving, which will employ more men than 

 the one described above. 



WATER. 



Several fine springs of water run through 

 the property, sufficient to supply a city of 

 100,000 people. Its source is of sufficient 

 elevation to place the water wherever 

 needed by its own gravity. 



A limited amonnt of tbe stock In 



WASHINGTON FIRE 



LOCATION. 



This Company have also secured a large 

 tract of land in the south part of Lewis 

 County, 73 miles south of Tacoma, Wash- 

 ington, and just half way between that 

 place and Portland, Oregon, on the lines of 

 the Northern Pacific and Union Pacific 

 railroads, at the junction of Stillwater 

 and Olequa creeks, with the Cowlitz river 

 skirting one side, have laid out, platted 

 and dedicated a townsite called LITTLE 

 FALLS. This townsite consists of six 

 hundred acres of land, and is a beautiful 

 location for a large city. 



TOWN LOTS. 



Town lots, 25x120 feet, are being sold 

 _ from $100 to $325 each, and are likely to 

 double in value within the next two years. 

 Terms, 35 per ceilr. cash, balance in one, two 

 and three years, secured by Srst mortgage 

 upon the property at 8 per ceiif. per an- 

 num, which mortgage can be paid off at 

 any time. All streets are 80 feet and alleys 

 20 feet wide. It is believed that the city 

 of Little Falls will have a population of 

 at least 1,000 before the end of this year. 



In Olequa creek and on the Company's 

 property there axe beautiful falls, very 

 desirable for manufacturing purposes. 



ELECTRIC LIGHT. 



It is contemplated to light Little Falls 

 with electricity in the near future, taking 

 the power from Olequa creek. 

 this Company Is for sale 



IMPROVEMENTS ALREADY MADE. 



The improvements that have been made 

 at Little Falls during the past summer con- 

 sist of the erection of between 15 and 20 

 dwelling houses, several of which cost from 

 $3,000 to $3,500 each. A large and com- 

 fortable hotel has been built and is in opera- 

 tion. There are several dwellings and 

 other buildings in course of erection at this 

 time. A shingle mill is in successful op- 

 eration, employing about twenty hands and 

 returning to the Washington Fire Clay Co. 

 an annual profit of $2,600, in payment for 

 timber cut from their property which would 

 otherwise be burned to clear it away. 



It is expected that a bank will be estab- 

 lished here. Two churches are building 

 also a large district school, and a handsome 

 railway station on the Northern Pacific 

 Eoad. There is also every prospect of a 

 large saw mill being located here at an 

 early date, in which case employment will 

 be given to between 75 and 100 men. This 

 would mean an addition of at least 350 to , 

 the population of Little Falls. 



This property is now on sale at the office 

 of the Company in Little Falls; .also at 

 the office of J. M. Steele, Room 612, Pacific 

 National Bank Building. Tacoma, Washing- 

 ton, and at the Co.'s New York ofiice, 3' 

 Park Eow. 



Call and see plats. 

 blocks of 10 shares or more, at $60 per share. 



CLAY COMPANY. BENNETT building, cor, Fulton and Nassau streets, Ni 



