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dons and the spotless purity of its marble ; Herodotus may have recited his his- 

 jtories ^.nd Demosthenes have thundered his eloquence before it ; Cicero may have 

 .turned aside from the delights of poetry and the comforts of philosophy to con- 

 .template in it the evidence of a finer genius than his countrymen could ever hope 

 ,to attain ; Virgil, Horace, and Ovid may have found their perceptions of beauty 

 ,elevated and made nobler by its influence ; the glance of Paul may have wandered 

 ,over it as he proclaimed to the people the mysteries of the new birth and the hope 

 of the resurrection; Marcus Aurelius may have seen in it a reflection of that heav- 

 enly truth and harmony in which his lofty soul found consolation; and still to-day 

 the connoisseur may dwell upon it with ever-increasing delight, and find the subtle 

 sympathy of art lifting him closer and closer into communion with those master 

 souls of the past, — 



" The dead but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule 

 Our spirits from their urns." 



— August Atlantic. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



At 2:05 on Sunday the 10th ult., a sharp 

 earthquake shock was felt in New York, 

 Pennsylvania, and the New England States. 

 As the observatory of the United States Sig- 

 nal Service, in the Equitable building. New 

 York, the time of the eartliquake and its 

 duration were noted. Assistant Observers R. 

 E. Hinman and Mervine were at the time in 

 the office, which is on the roof of the build-, 

 ing, about 200 feet above the level of the 

 street. Thfe first intimation of the earth- 

 quake was a low, rumbling sound, like the 

 mutterings of distant thunder. It was im- 

 mediately followed by a shock, as that of a 

 violent explosion, which caused the build- 

 ing to quiver, although it did not shake per- 

 ceptibly. The rattling continued for about 

 eight seconds, and was accompanied by the 

 rumbling sound, which gradually died away. 

 The first shock was felt at about 2:11. The 

 effect of the jar was much more perceptible 

 in houses of light structure. While the 

 shock was felt strongly in the dwelling houses, 

 it is somewhat singular that persons travel- 

 ing on the elevated roads did not know of 

 the occurrence until they were told of it by 



people getting in at the stations, and that 

 the shock felt in the elevated stations was 

 slight compared with that felt on the ground 

 below. As far as can be ascertained the 

 shock was entirely imperceptible on the water, 

 and no wave such as usually accompanies 

 the phenomena in the adjacent waters was 

 here observed. 



Among other favorable notices of the arti- 

 cle on the " Sewerage of Kansas City," by 

 Mr. G. W. Pearsons, in the August Eeview, 

 we find the following in a personal letter 

 from the celebrated engineer, G. E. Waring, 

 Esq.: "I have read with great pleasure your 

 article in the Kansas City Review. You 

 put the thing in a nutshell, so far as K. C. 

 is concerned, and, indeed, strike what is like- 

 ly to be the general compromise for all larg- 

 er cities, it is precisely this that they are 

 proposing to do in Paris." 



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