EDITORIAL NOTES. 



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To any persoii remitting to us tke annual sub- 

 scription price of any three of the prominent liter- 

 acy or scientific magazines of the United States, 

 we will promptly furnish the same, and the Kansas 

 City Review, besides, without additional cost, 

 for one year. 



We were much pleased on the 14th ult. to 

 receive a visit from the well-known Quaker- 

 shoemaker-astronomer of Spiceland, Indiana, 

 Professor Wm. Dawson, whose articles have 

 so frequently appeared in the Review dur- 

 ing the past five or six years. 



The Interior Department, the Patent Of- 

 fice and the Smithsonian Institution are pre- 

 paring to make a very fine exhibit at the 

 New Orleans Exposition this winter, also for 

 those at Cincinnati and Louisville this fall. 

 Several car loads have already been shipped 

 and others are nearly ready. 



The Kansas State Historical Society has 

 accepted an invitation to cooperate with the 

 Kansas Old Settlers' Association in a cele- 

 bration at Bismarck Grove, Lawrence, of the 

 thirtieth anniversary of the settlement of 

 Kansas. The celebration will take place on 

 September 3, 1884. Hon. F. P. Baker, Pres- 

 ident of the Historical Society, will deliver 

 an address on the subject of " The Uses and 

 Value of Historical Societies." The meet- 

 ing is intended to be a general gathering of 

 the early settlers of Kansas, and of all inter- 

 ■ested in the stirring events of the period of 

 early settlement. The Kansas Territorial 

 ex-Governors, Denver and Stanton, General 

 John A. Logan, and others from abroad, 

 liave accepted invitations to be present. 



The Catalogue of the Missouri State Uni- 

 versity for 1883-4 shows an attendance, in 

 all the departments, of 573 from seventy- 

 seven counties of Missouri and seventeen 

 other States and Territories. The Academic 

 .course of study is very complete ; it extends 

 over six years and is adapted to the educa- 

 tional wants of the State. There is no pre- 

 paratory department but each one of the as- 

 sociated schools provides instruction in its 



own line of work to meet the need arising 

 out of the lack of an adequate supply of 

 High Schools. The optional feature is given 

 free play under certain restrictions. Stu- 

 dents, male or female, are allowed to enter 

 any classes for which, on examination, they 

 are found qualified ; but each student must 

 have in hand a certain number of hours of 

 study and recitation for each week. Certifi- 

 cates are given by the Faculty certifying to 

 the amount of work done by any student, 

 and standing in the same ; but all Degrees, 

 attested by the Diploma of the Curators, are 

 given only on the completion in detail of 

 prescribed courses. The reputation of the 

 University, as comparing favorably with our 

 best institutions, seems to have been earned 

 by the honest hard work of its industrious 

 faculty. The next session begins September 

 8, 1884. 



Sir John Lubbock, the banker, parlia- 

 mentarian and scientist, who owes his chief 

 fame to his wonderfully minute researches 

 in entomology, has been compelled to forego 

 his visit to Montreal to meet his fellow mem- 

 bers of the Royal Society, by reason of a 

 severe attack of the gout. His absence will 

 be regretted equally by his admirers among 

 the members of the American Association. 



Mr. E. R. Knowles, who has written sev- 

 eral reliable articles for the Review within 

 .the past three years, and who is. now con- 

 nected with the Providence Journal, after in- 

 vestigating the manifestations of Miss Lulu 

 Hurst, is convinced that '' her manifestations 

 are all simply the exertion of muscular 

 strength under certain most favorable condi- 

 tions by a young lady of fine physical devel- 

 opment, and exceedingly skillful in applying 

 her strength, and in knowing how to avail 

 herself of any possible contingency of posi- 

 tion, weight, embarrassment, hesitation, or 

 confusion afforded by those who test her 

 power ; and that, governed by the same con- 

 ditions, any person of equal physical strength 

 can produce exactly the same phenomena 

 with no more apparent effort. These feats 

 are entirely physical, and can be confounded 



