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Secretaries of the Local Board at Philadel- 

 phia. All official enquiries to Prof. F. W. 

 Putnam, who will be at Salem, Mass., until 

 August 20th, after that date at Hotel La- 

 Fayette, Phildelphia. 



The Brighton Electrical Railway, a subur- 

 ban road at Brighton, England, about one 

 mile long, appears to be a success. Its aver- 

 age earnings are stated to be over £34 per 

 week and its expenses and interest only £18, 

 leaving a net profit of £16 per week. It has 

 at present only one car, which runs about 

 eighty-two miles per day, seats tbirty pas- 

 sengers, and makes a speed of eight miles 

 per hour. 



Chicago parties are said to have purchas- 

 ed land in Iron and Eeyuolds Counties, this 

 State, and a stock company with a capital of 

 $250,000 has been organized for iron and 

 silver mining. They have already purchas- 

 ed over 1,000 acres of land, and have con- 

 tracts for nearly 3,000 more. An expert 

 mining engineer from Pennsylvania has been 

 employed and will have charge of the de- 

 velopment of the property. Another com- 

 pany with a capital of $50,000 is being or- 

 ganized to quarry marble and granite on 

 the Black Eiver. 



Dr. Carlos Faremba, of Mexico, has ad- 

 dressed a circular letter to all representa- 

 tives of foreign governments now in Wash- 

 ington, advocating the celebration of the 

 discovery of America on its 400th anniver- 

 sary, October 12, 1892, and the erection of a 

 monument on the spot where the first land- 

 ing was made. 



Dr. Joseph Hall, President of the New 

 Orleans Board of Health, states that, after 

 the most fair and unlimited trial, carbolic 

 acid has proved a failure as a general disin- 

 fectant, and especially in yellow-fever. In 

 its place he has adopted bi-chloride of mer- 

 cury, which costs only about 80 per cent as 

 much, and is in his opinion the most power- 

 ful germicide known, and at the same time 

 it is free of all unpleasant smell and color. 



The standard solution will be six ounces of 

 the mercury and four ounces of muriate of 

 ammonia first dissolved in a half gallon of 

 water and then added to forty gallons of 

 water. 



The State Natural Historical Society of 

 Illinois held its annual meeting at Peoria, 

 July 7 and S, 1884. An address was deliv- 

 ered by the President Dr. Julius S. Taylor, 

 of Kankakee. Papers were read by Hon. 

 Wm. McAdams, Prof. S. A. Forbes, A. B. 

 Seymour, A. H. Mundt, and others. An 

 excursion was also taken up the Illinois Eiver 

 for field work and a pic-nic, which was much 

 enjoyed by all. An election of officers was 

 held just before returning, at which the 

 Hon. Wm. McAdams, of Alton, was made 

 President for the ensuing year, and S. A. 

 Foibes, Secretary; Prof. Burrill and Mr. J. 

 E. Armstrong were made Vice Presidents. 

 Tylor McWhorter was elected Treasurer and 

 Dr. Edwin Evans and Mr. A. H. Mundt 

 were chosen as additional members of the 

 Executive Committee. 



At Cleveland, Ohio, Mr. Walter Knight 

 has succeeded in perfecting a plan for run- 

 ning street cars by electricity. Last week a 

 mile of track was prepared for it and forty 

 persons were carried for as many trips over 

 the road at a rate of speed ranging from one 

 to fifteen miles an hour, at the will of 

 Knight, the inventor. The plan being con- 

 siderably cheaper in its working than the 

 old way and as any number of cars can be 

 placed on the circuit to run independent, 

 the East Cleveland line will adopt it and 

 will immediately make the necessary ar- 

 rangement. 



It is proposed to organize, under the 

 auspices of the American Social Science 

 Association, during its next annual session 

 at Saratoga, September 8-22, 1884, an 

 American Historical Association, consisting 

 of professors, teachers, specialists, and others 

 interested in the advancement of history in 

 this country. Friends of history can profit 

 by association with one another and also 



