EDITORIAL NOTES. 



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The Franco-American Committee will de- 

 liver the Bartlioldi Statue of Liberty En- 

 lightening the World to United States Min- 

 ister Morton, July 8th, in the presence of 

 Prime Minister Ferry and a delegate repre- 

 senting President Grevy. The statue will 

 be shipped to New York late in July. 



About July 15th Messrs. Franc M. Paul 

 and Albert B. Tavel will commence the pub- 

 lication of a semi-monthly trade journal un- 

 der the title of Tlie, Southern Miner and 

 Manufacturer. It will be devoted mainly to 

 the development of the immense and varied 

 resources of the South and their manufacture 

 at home. It will be published at Nashville, 

 Tennessee, on the 1st and 15th of each month. 

 |2.00 per annum. 



The new models of the carriage and pon- 

 toons of the Eads Ship Kailway have started 

 for London. Nearly all the capital for the 

 enterprise is being subscribed in that city. 

 Chief Engineer Corthell says 100 men are ai 

 work and that the first half mile of track 

 has been completed. This, with the river 

 course, which admits three of the largest 



ships abreast, completes twenty-five and a 

 half miles of the Tehuantepec route. The 

 new pontoon system of raising vessels from 

 the water upon the railway carriage is to be 

 substituted for the hydraulic system first con- 

 templated. It was conceived by London 

 engineers and adopted by Eads, and will 

 raise a ship out of water and upon the car- 

 riage in twenty minutes. 



Sir W. Thompson, the eminent physicist, 

 recently delivered a lecture before the Mid- 

 land Institute on the "Six Gateways of 

 Knowledge," using the word " six " as a sup- 

 posed improvement on the old phrase, "five 

 gateways of knowledge." The sixth or ad- 

 ditional gateway was the sense of heat as 

 distinguished from the sense of touch ; but 

 in reality the sense of heat is probably only 

 another function of the sense of touch, and 

 there is no absolute need to add another to 

 the conventional five, senses. Sir William 

 also suggested that there was probably a 

 " magnetic sense," that is to say, he believed 

 that some people might be found who could 

 tell the presence of magnetism acting on 

 their person. 



