EDITORIAL NOTES. 



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The" Kansas^ City Academy of Science, 

 through the courtesy of the Board of Educa- 

 tion, will hereafter hold its meetings and 

 keep its library and collections at the Public 

 School Library room at No. 548 Main St. 



The meeting held here in behalf of the 

 Garfield Memorial Hospital, to be erected at 

 Washington City as a " cenotaph to the illus- 

 trious dead and a haven of health to the liv- 

 ing," was well attended, and a committee 

 appointed to solicit subscriptions. It was 

 decided not to ask more than one dollar] from 

 any one, so that all classes might have the 

 privilege of assisting in this tribute to the 

 memory of the departed President. Col. 

 Theo. S. Case was selected as Treasurer, to 

 whom the contributions of those not called 

 upon by members of the committee may be 

 sent. 



A BILL has recently been introduced in 

 Congress granting the right of way, two 

 hundred feet wide and three hundred yards 

 on either side, for a canal across Florida 

 and part of Georgia, connecting the Atlantic 

 and the Gulf of Mexico, for the passage 

 of steamboats, barges and light-draft ocean 

 vessels. 



Capt. Berthoud, pays his annual compli- 

 ments thus: ''I enclose $2.50 for another 

 year's subscription to the Kansas City Re- 

 view ; long may it flourish ! I get so much 

 in it that does not appear elsewhere that I do 

 not care much for any other journal of sci- 

 ence." 



The Kansas City Smelting and Refining 

 Company are out with an extremely neat cir- 

 cular containing an analysis of their refined 

 lead and a picture of their works at Argen- 

 tine, Kansas. Accompanying their circular 

 is a foil of their refined corroding lead 

 pounded from a plate one-half an inch in 

 thickness by 3,400 blows of a sledge-hammer. 



Prof. G. C. Broadhead sends us the fol- 

 lowing n ote from Pleasant Hill, Mo.: "On 

 Friday night, January 13, 1882, at 9:10 JeflFer- 

 son City time, going northward on the street, 



a bright light as of a torch caused me to turn, 

 and across my shoulder to the southwest I 

 saw a bright meteor — brightest I ever saw at 

 night — passing about 10° west of Orion, 

 bursting and vanishing in three seconds, but 

 showing very bright streaks, calling to mind 

 the electric light — ^violet, red and yellow ; 

 it threw off sparks and streaks each way and 

 disappeared ; night clear, but little wind and 

 cool. 



The rich Greek banker, Syngros, has con- 

 tributed another ioo,coo francs for the foun- 

 dation of a national arch Ecological museum 

 at Olympia, where the relics of antiquity 

 recently discovered are to be exhibited. 



Our old friend. Dr. J. M. DeBall, write 

 as follows : " Permit me to congratulate 

 you on the success of your magazine. I 

 hope the cash side of the account is fully up 

 to the literary position of the Review." 



San Jose, California, is lighted by means 

 of a tower two hundred feet high and mount- 

 ing six Brush lights. The tower is built of 

 gas pipe, one corner resting on each of the 

 four corners of the intersecting streets. 



Dr. John W. Draper, author of " Human 

 Physiology," the " History of the American 

 Civil War," " The Conflict Between Relig- 

 ion and Science," etc., died, January 4th, 

 aged 71, at his home, at Hastings on the 

 Hudson, 



The glucose works at Leavenworth, Kan., 

 are now consuming 2000 bushels of corn 

 daily, and four tons of coal ; working seventy- 

 five men, and shipping three car-loads of 

 syrup per day, and feeding two hundred head 

 of cattle with the refuse. 



On a sun-dial at Visp, Switzerland, is the 

 following Latin inscription, " Omnes time 

 propter unam," which some scientific wag 

 translated somewhat freely, " All ti77ie goes 

 by this." In the same vein we suggest the 

 knowledge of nitio-glycerine by the Romans, 

 from the following line from Horace 

 '' Uritme Glycenc mior." 



