EDITORIAL NOTES. 
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On the evening of August 25th tbe Island 
of Java, equaling in size New York, Penn- 
sylvania, and Ohio, was shaken from end to 
end by volcanic action, and so vast a por- 
tion of is surface submerged beneath the 
sea that, as Harper''s Weekly suggests, the 
story of the lost Atlantis may be regarded as 
brought within the lange of probability. 
Professor Parker, formerly of this city, 
now chaplain in the U. S. Army, has been 
transferred from Ft. Stockton, Texas, to Ft. 
Hays, Kansas, much to his satisfaction. He 
is now in this city enjoying himself among 
his friends for a short time. 
Prof. G, C. Broadhead, formerly State 
Geologist of Missouri, gave us a brief call 
on the 19th ult. He still insists that the 
Legislature made a mistake last winter in not 
providing for the completion of the geologi- 
cal survey of the State. 
The Western Normal Advocate^ edited by 
C. L. Gregory and C. F. Holcomb, at Bush- 
nell, Illinois, winds up a complimentary no- 
tice of the Review by saying, ^^ Every teacher 
should be a subscriber to this truly excellent pe- 
riodical" 
Miss Fannie E. Wright, a well known 
artist of this city, has recently returned from 
Europe, where she has spent the past year 
studying under the very best instructors, and 
has resumed giving lessons in painting at her 
home, 1 105 Forest Avenue. 
~ A cablegram announces the death of Prof. 
Wm. Denton, geologist, for the past two 
years making scientific explorations in Aus- 
tralia, New Zealand, and China. He is sup- 
posed to have been in Java at the time of the 
earthquake, and to have been one of the 
victims. 
The publisher of the Review has for sale, 
very low, a large, fine, new pirlor organ, 
suitable also for college chapel, lecture room, 
or church. It is one of the very best styles, 
and can be had at a decided bargain. 
THE^KansasXity Eeview of Science and 
Industry is one of the ablest and best pub- 
lications of its kind in the country, and has 
the especial merit of dealing with scientific 
questions in a manner that can be understood 
by the lay reader. The great fault of most 
publications of the sort is that they treat sub- 
jects of scientific interest in a manner too 
profound for the ordinary citizen, but the 
Review is purely popular, and therefore the 
more valuable. — Chicago Inter Ocean. 
Prof. E. B. Seitz, of the Kirksville State 
Normal School, died of typhoid fever on the 
8th of October. He was regarded as one of 
the finest mathematicians in the United States 
and his loss will be greatly felt. 
Prof. R. S, G. Paton, late of Chicago, has 
been elected Professor of Chemistry in the 
Medical Department of the University of 
Kansas City, and is now engaged in deliver- 
ing his winter course of lectures before ih€ 
students of that Institution. 
New York City is now in direct commun- 
ication with Rio de Janeiro by telegraph, sO' 
that dispatches are now received in the Cof- 
fee Exchange only two hours after they are 
written. From Rio the new line has been 
extended by way of Montevideo and Valpa- 
raiso on land wires through South and Cen- 
tral America, crossing the Isthmus of Tehuan- 
tepee, and going thence by cable to Galves- 
ton, Texas. With improved facilities our 
trade with south America ought to be mater» 
ially extended. — American Grade /ournal. 
We call attention to Dr. Fisk's article up- 
on "Climate in the Cure of Consumption," 
reprinted from Science of October 5th, which 
number also contains its usual quota of 
timely and valuable papers, correspondence, 
etc. 
Dr. Koch, of Berlin, who has been invest- 
igating the cholera in Egypt, finds that it is 
due to a "living, thread-like microscopic or- 
ganism,^ resembling that seen in cases of 
phthisis." 
