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Two important enterprises for Kansas City 

 were practically put in operation here in 

 March, viz : the completion of the cable rail- 

 way line across the city, and the triumphant 

 realization of the hopes of the proprietors of 

 the Henry Electric Eailway. Both of these 

 enterprises are the result of practical scien- 

 tific and engineering skill of Kansas City 

 engineers, i. e., of Mr. Robert Gillham and 

 Mr. John C. Henry, respectively, backed up 

 by home capital. 



We have received from Mr. Charles E. 

 Putnam, President of the Davenport (Iowa) 

 Academy of Natural Sciences, a forty-paged 

 pamphlet, written by him in vindication of 

 the Academy, upon the authenticity of the 

 " Elephant Pipes and Inscribed Tablets," in 

 its museum, against the criticisms of H. W. 

 Henshaw, ornithologist of the Bureau of 

 Ethnology at Washington, D. C, published 

 and endorsed by Major J. W. Powell, direc- 

 tor, in his Second Annual Report. 



We have not time at this last moment be- 

 fore going to press to examine this pamph- 

 let, but will do so before the next issue of 

 the Reniew. 



A VESSEii was moored at Salem, Mass., 

 the other day, with several cases of cholera 

 on board. This is a warning for every mar- 

 itime city in the country to be watchful and 

 clean up, and the last adjuration to clean 

 up, is just as applicable to Kansas City as 

 to any o'her city in the country. 



We may add to the above that when the 

 cholera does reach our cities, as it probably 

 will, in spite of all the " cleaning up " that 

 can be done in advance, the principal.safe- 

 guard to the people is to prevent the spread 

 of the peculiar cholera germ itself (different 

 from all other filth) by such sanitary appli- 

 ances as are utterly destructive of it. Noth- 

 ing else will effectually prevent its spread 

 when once introduc d into a city. 



We find the following in the Kansas City 

 Daily Presse: "Number 10 of the eighth 

 volume of the Kansas City Review of 

 Science and Industry has appeared and is 

 excellent in its carefully selected and orig- 

 inal abundant reading matter. This number 



contains e. g. scientific treatises on the Kansas 

 City cable road, on modern and ancient me- 

 chanics and architecture, essays in the 

 domain of geology, astronomy, meteorology; 

 correspondence on the World's Exposition 

 at New Orleans, etc. The editor of the jour- 

 nal—that has many renowned savants for its 

 co-workers— is Mr. Theo. S. Case, post- 

 master of our citv. 



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Subscribers to the Review can be furnished 

 through this office with all the best magazines of 

 this Country and Europe, at a discount of from 

 ^5 to 20 per cent off the retail price. 



To any person remitting to us the annual sub- 

 scription price of any three of the prominent liter- 

 ary or scientific magazines of the United States, 

 we will promptly furnish the same, and the Kan- 

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The Atlantic Monthly for April is a remark- 

 ably good number. Its serials by Craddock, 

 Mrs. Oliphant, and Miss Jewett progress ad- 

 mirably, and Dr. Holmes adds the attraction 

 of a poem called The Old Song to his install- 

 ment of The New Portfolio. The papers on 

 Madame Mohl are also continued, and an 

 essay on Time in Shakespeare's Plays, by 

 Henry A. Clapp, forms a pendant to a form- 

 er article on Time in Shakespeare's Come- 

 dies. A delightful paper entitled George 

 Frederick Handle : 1685-1885, by John S. 

 Dwight; Political Economy and the Civil 

 War, a study by J. Lawrence Laughlin; a 

 story called Fate Dominant, by F. R. Stock- 

 ton ; An Unclassified Philosopher, a sketch ; 

 and a paper on the sparrow, by Olive Thorne 

 Miller, are the other attractions of the num- 

 ber. The poetry comprises Fiammetta, by 

 Helen Gray Cone ; Cressid, by Nora Perry; 

 The Strange Guest, by Edith M. Thomas; 

 and Easter Lilies, by John B. Tabb. There 

 are also reviews of recent poetry by Brown- 

 ing, Tennyson, and Swineburne, and of 

 Gosse's edition of Gray's Works, together 

 with the usual Contributors' Club and Books 



