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ner is to put a stop to the desultory and ineffectual attempts thus far made by the 
several nations which have so earnestly striven to carry off the prize. The Captain 
finds no difficulty in securing men to undertake the enterprise; his funds are 
ample, and he is sanguine of the success which he certainly deserves after so 
many years of constant effort. 
The Hon. J. R. McPherson, chairman of the Senate Committee on Naval 
affairs and Hon. W. C. Whitthorne, chairman of the House Committee on Naval 
affairs are entitled to the thanks of all friends of science and exploration through- 
out the world for their persistent and successful advocacy of this measure.—[ Ep. 
WATER-SPOUTS OFF KAUAI. 
On Monday, the oth of March, there was a fine exhibition of water-spouts 
off the eastern coast of Kauai. When first seen just after light in the morning 
there were two in company. ‘They were tall, straight and symmetrical, and as 
alike as two peas, extending like pillars from the ocean to the sharply-defined 
lower edge of a black cloud, from which was precipitated at quite a distance in 
the rear of the water-spouts a heavy shower of rain. To the rear again of the 
shower there was at frequent intervals seen the quick flash of electricity as it 
leaped from the cloud to the briny abyss. The whole procession was passing 
majestically toward the south, some ten miles out to sea, in a direction nearly 
parallel with the coast. One peculiarity which added to the interest of the spec- 
tacle was the slow revolution of one of the water-spouts around its mate, describ- 
ing an orbit perhaps two thousand feet, or even more, in diameter. After a time 
the two water-spouts faded away and disappeared, and presently after a lapse of 
several minutes a third one was seen to be forming. The whirling base of mist 
on the sea and a descending cone of cloud appeared simultaneously, and soon 
became connected and developed into a perfect column.—AHawazan Gazette. 
MOSAICULTURE. 
M. Chretian (writes our Lyons contemporary) has this year given us in the 
Parc de la Tete d’Or, some pretty examples of what he terms ‘‘ mosaiculture,” in 
the shape of beds containing mottoes and devices set out with colored foliage 
plants. Our Scottish neighbors seem to have carried the idea farther, with an eye 
to business as well as ornament. On a hillside not far from Glasgow may be read 
the words Glasgow Mews in gigantic letters, each forty feet long and six feet 
broad, formed of colored foliage plants. This inscription occupies a length of one 
hundred yards, and covers a space just 1,450 times the size of the Journal it ad- 
_vertises.— Garden. 
