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KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 



We see by the American Art Review that 

 M. Basiien Lepage's Joan of Arc, which was 

 pronounced one of the masterpieces of the 

 last salon, has been bought for a gentleman 

 of New York City, by Mr. J. Alden Weir, 

 the artist who visited Paris during the sum- 

 mer. Hans Markart's last picture Diana and 

 her Nymphs, a work of very large dimen- 

 sions, is also said to have passed into the 

 possession of an American collector. 



Prof. Snow, of the University, had a nar- 

 row escape from the Apaches. His party 

 were obliged to leave their baggage, and 

 passed the wagons of the party that were 

 slain, seeing their blood hardly dried. Hun- 

 dreds of friends will rejoice at his escape. — 

 Kansas Telephone. 



We recently spent a day with Dr. I. D, 

 Heath, of Wyandotte, and found, among his 

 collections, specimens of the woods of Wyan- 

 dotte county, which are in preparation for 

 the Bismarck Fair. The following woods 

 were noted: Burr Oak, Hackberry, Locust, 

 Linden, White Oak, Slippery Elm, Wild 

 Plum, Shell Bark Hickory, Sumach, Mul- 

 berry, Black Walnut, Dogwood, Wild Cher- 

 ry, White Ash, Grape Vine, Black Jack, Red 

 Bud, Black Oak, Papaw, Prickly Ash, 

 White Elm, Water Willow, Water Oak, Pig 

 Nut Hickory, Iron Wood, Chinquapin Oak, 

 Red Thorn, Box Elder, Coffee Bean, Syca- 

 more, Water Beech, Pecan, Soft Maple, Crab 

 Apple, Elder, Buck Eye and Cottonwood. 

 The woods for exhibition will be sawed into 

 sections six inches in length, and the sections 

 according to the size of the tree, halved or 

 quartered. Half of the pieces will be polish- 

 ed and treated with shellac, the other half 

 alternately left so that the grain of the wood 

 may be seen. 



The recent meeting of the American 

 Pharmaceutical Association was an event in 

 the history of Kansas City, and we made ar- 

 rangements to publish a resume of the pro- 

 ceedings. But as the report was somewhat 

 delayed we have deferred its publication until 

 the next number of the Reviev^t. 



It affords us pleasure to call altention to 

 Spalding's Commercial College. It has been 

 in continuous and successful operation for 

 sixteen years, and offers unsurpassed facili- 

 ties for instruction in English and Commer- 

 cial branches, having an able faculty of ex- 

 perienced teachers and lecturers. Over three 

 thousand students have been in attendance 

 since its organization, hundreds of whom are 

 now filling high positions of profit and trust 

 as bankers and business men in different 

 parts of the country. The writer has known 

 Mr. Spalding since he was a student in the 

 University of Michigan, extending over a 

 period of thirty years, and, therefore, speaks 

 from personal knowledge. In private life he 

 is irreproachable, in his profession he is one 

 of the most indefatigable workers, as a pen- 

 man he almost equals Mr. Spencer himself, 

 and as a pen-artist he excels him, as a teacher 

 of commercial branches he trains his students 

 into the most careful business habits, and 

 inspires them with a high and noble ideal of 

 their calling, as a friend to indigent students 

 struggling to secure an education, he will be 

 remembered with gratitude by many a busi- 

 ness man, and as an author he will soon be 

 known as having published some of the best 

 books in his department. The College was 

 never as successful as during the present 

 year, and the founder of such an institution 

 deserves success. 



ITEMS FROM PERIODICALS. 



A new magazine, especially designed to 

 represent South Kensington, will very short- 

 ly appear, and deal with matters of science 

 and art. The editor says the Athena-twi is an 

 archaeologist and quondam collector. 



Van Nostrand'' s Engineering Magazine for 

 August has a good table of contents. This 

 journal has made itself a necessity to those 

 working in its line of thought. 



The Journal of the Frankhn Institute for 

 August has an important article in regard to 

 the "wearing capacity of steel rails in rela- 

 tion to their chemical composition and phys- 

 ical properties." The number contains val- 

 uable information in its department. 



