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KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 



A DETAIL has been made of a number of 

 under officers of the navy to duty at the 

 Smithsonian Institute with a view of adding 

 to their course of training some matters per- 

 taining to natural science which the Annapo- 

 lis Academy does not give. They will then 

 be expected when on duty to galh.T and fur" 

 nish to the government whatever scientific 

 information may come under their observa' 

 tion, so far as they are able, without 

 neglecting their other duties. The German, 

 Scandinavian, French and English navies 

 have already such training, and have added 

 to the scientific information of the world by 

 their work. Our own navy, when aided by 

 civilian scientists, has also done good work 

 in this line. 



The Mis'=ouri Press Association meets this 

 year on May 9th, at St. Joseph. An enter- 

 taining programme has been arranged, and 

 the citizens and Board of Trade assure the 

 members a cordial reception. 



The Eleventli Annual Live Stock Report 

 of the Kansas City Stock Yards, for the year 

 ending December 31, 1881, by E. E. Rich- 

 ardson, the very efficient Assistant Secretary, 

 is not only a statement of the receipts and 

 shipments for that year, but also a full and 

 comprehensive comparative statement of 

 monthly receipts and shipments of cattle, 

 horses, sheep and hogs, by months, for the 

 past eleven years ; also the receipts and ship- 

 ments over the various railroads centering 

 here for the same length of time. From the 

 report we cull the following items : Re- 

 ceipts for 188 1: Cattle, 285,853 ; Hogs, 1,014,- 

 304; Sheep, 79,924; Horses, 12,592. Ship- 

 ments for 188 1 : Cattle, 286,134; Hogs, 

 1,015,447; Sheep, 79,848; Horses, 12,604. 

 Amongst the shipments are included those 

 consumed in this city, viz: Cattle, 62,145; 

 Hogs, 819,923; Sheep, 18,770; Horses, 2,- 

 548. The increase over 1880 is very large ; 

 the shipment and consumption of hogs, for 

 instance, being 338,599, and other stock 

 in about the same proportion. The total 

 receipts since the opening of the yards have 

 been: Cattle, 2,282,620; Hogs, 3,694,570; 

 Sheep, 376,995 ; Horses, 76,898 ; a grand 



total of 6,431,082, of which a very large pro- 

 portion, (that of the hogs being almost one- 

 third) were received in the last year. 



ITEMS FROM PERIODICALS. 



The Boston Journal, of Commerce is a very 

 able illustrated weekly paper, and as hand- 

 some as it is independent in tone. It has 

 technical articles on workshop matters, tools, 

 steam engineering and machinery. Its man- 

 ufacturing intelligence of what is going on 

 in the great centers is very full, and com- 

 piled especia ly for it. 



The Lawrence y^M^-wa/ says of the Review, 

 among other pleasant things, "The editor 

 keeps his readers fully informed of the new- 

 est literature and the latest facts in the scien- 

 tific and industrial world. The Review is 

 admirably sustained in all its departments." 



The Kansas Ci!y Review of Science and 

 Industry for January presents a table spread 

 with the choicest fruits of scientific and in- 

 dustrial knowledge. * * * All of the 

 departments are full of attractions to the 

 scientific mind, and the editorial notes pos- 

 sess their usual excellence. — Kansas City 

 Journal. 



The Leavenworth Times says that five sor- 

 ghum mills aie no>v running with good 

 success in Kansas. The Ellsworth Sugar 

 Company owns one hundred and sixty acres 

 of land adjoining the city, and has a mill 

 capable to turning out five thousand barrels 

 of syrup per day. The capacity of the two 

 mills at Sterling is nearly five hundred tons 

 of cane per day. The mill at Earned has 

 been in successful operation for the past two 

 years, and has paid well. That near Great 

 Bead, for the past season, after supplying the 

 farmers of the neighborhood with syrup, had 

 a surplus of forty thousand gallons, worth 

 from forty to forly-five cents per gallon. 



Number 28 of the Humboldt Libra>y con- 

 sists of "Fashion in Deformity," by William 

 Henry Flower, F. R. S. Octavo, 16 pp.^ 

 illustrated, 15 cents. 



