766 KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE, 
died Zebedee Le Jeuné Donni, of the Reverend Jesuit Fathers,” * * * * * * 
And in the next paragraph the following: ‘‘ Among the witnesses who sign are 
* ok k ok &K %& and Zebedee Le Jeune, the priest whose death in 1727 is noted in 
the burial register.” Was there a priest at Kaskaskia of this name or was hea 
donne or given man. His name does not appear in Shea’s History of the Catho- 
lic Missions in America. ILLINOIS. 
Will some student of our early history\ refer me to the volume where the 
particulars of the French expedition, which is said by Switzler and other histo- 
rians of our state to have ascended the Missouri as far as the mouth of the Kansas 
in 1705, are to be found. W. H. 
I am astonished at hearing the noon steam-whistle from Topeka quite often 
and distinctly here—2z5 miles away. For the past week their time has been fifteen 
minutes ahead of our farm time. Are sound waves often so widely distributed ? 
pS 
Sir Edward Thornton, in his reply, March 11, ’81, to a communication from 
the New York Produce Exchange, says: ‘‘That trichina spiralis exists among 
hogs in the United States, and that some individuals have died from eating pork 
containing that insect, seems to have been proven.” Is trichina spiralis an z”- 
sect ? L. 
NGASS IZ, 
PROF. T. BERRY SMITH—1874. 
Oh, why so still, thou great and wondrous man ? 
Unfold those hands, and ope’ those sleeping eyes, 
And, breaking silence, speak again to me 
About the earth and all that therein is. 
They tell me he is dead. But is he dead? 
His body’s dead, indeed ; but what was it 
Except the dwelling place of restless mind 
~ Which, all the while it lived within these walls, 
Was reaching out and panting to be free? 
He is not dead—Agassiz cannot die. 
Long years ago his little bark was one 
Of a great fleet that sailed along the shores 
Which bound life’s stormy ocean. Bolder grown 
And with a daring heart, he left the throng 
And sought the vaster deep. There, far beyond 
The lines that marked his chart, fearless he ran; 
